We knew Kaye wouldn’t disappoint us when she got around to writing about Katrina. As the convoys of the U.S. National Guard arrived in New Orleans, their first priority was to try and restore civility, law and order, before they could begin to perform their rescue operations in a timely manner. If the convoys wanted to do anything in a … Read More
Shorter Michelle Malkin
Shorter Michelle Malkin: Al Franken signed a settlement agreement with a guy who screwed over Al Franken and other Air America investors; therefore, Al Franken is corrupt. I don’t get the breathlessness that the rightosphere has over this story. Basically, it boils down to this: (1) There’s a guy named Evan Cohen. He was, among other things, a venture capitalist … Read More
Kristol Clear
I’ve seen a lot of Bush apologists in the past several years, but this beats all. William Kristol, the conservative publisher of The Weekly Standard, said of Mr. Bush: "I do think people think he could have showed stronger leadership." But Mr. Kristol expressed doubt that the hurricane would have much lasting effect on the president’s personal and political fortunes, … Read More
Dolls, Not Rap
Rebecca Hagelin at Townhall.com sees the Katrina disaster as an indictment of the gangsta culture. Let’s have fun with her: Throwing out the thugsRebecca Hagelin This famous, selfless cry for the safety of others is best associated with the tragedy of the Titanic, when thousands lost their lives in the frozen waters of the sea so many years ago. Yes. … Read More
Whither The Right Blogosphere
I’ve noticed lately that there is a certain "circle-the-wagons" and/or "flee-for-the-hills" mentality among those in the right blogosphere. For example, I occasionally post at a non-politically-aligned group blog called Freespeech.com, which has had its share of conservative posters doing the whole smear-liberal-and-defend-Bush thing. Starting in the middle of the summer, they’ve slowly disappeared. Furthermore, I increasingly notice that many conservative … Read More
Delinking Glenn
There are wingnuts, and there are wingnuts. Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) stirred up a hornet’s nest when he wrote: I think that demonizing the ACLU is a bit silly. I do feel that they’ve become overly partisan in recent years, but they still do good work (I’ve worked with them in the past, on the New Orleans rave case for example, … Read More
Oy
According to Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon, there’s an email making the rounds. It carries the picture below and the following text: The image of the hurricane above with its eye already ashore at 12:32 PM Monday, August 29 looks like a fetus (unborn human baby) facing to the left (west) in the womb, in the early weeks of gestation (approx. … Read More
An Open Letter To Mr. Prager
Dear Mr. Prager: It’s kind of easy to win a debating point when you get to speak for *both* sides of the debate, as you’ve done in your latest piece. It allows you to misprepresent the position of your opponent, who is not there to correct you. (Do you now see why some liberals refer to the right wing media … Read More
Fox News Viewers Whine
After devoting so much time and energy bashing other countries, including our historical allies, Fox News viewers gripe: "Where is the international help for the United States? We are always one of the first to come to any aid when disasters strike around the world. Where is our help?? Now is the time for other nations to come to our … Read More
Just Check The Idiot
Atrios points to a Washington Post editorial, calling it "the stupidest thing I have *ever* read". We tend to agree. The opinion piece is about Intelligent Design, and it is written by Sally Jenkins, a sports columnist for WaPo. That probably explains the strained sports analogies. It’s called "Just Check The ID", and it goes a little something like this: … Read More
Overheard in New York
I’m becoming a big fan of this website, whose name is self-explanatory: http://www.overheardinnewyork.com. Check it out. Speaking of New York, why can’t Ann Coulter shut up? UPDATE (8/29/05): Apparently conservatives are thinking the same thing. The Arizona Daily Star has dropped Ann Coulter as a syndicated columnist, with this explanation: Finally, we’ve decided that syndicated columnist Ann Coulter has worn … Read More
Pro-Bush Supporters Attack Themselves
Protest Warriors is a conservative activist group. Their tradmark is to show up at progressive rallies posing as liberals and carrying signs that say things like: "Communism has killed only 100 million people; let’s give it another chance!" and "The ACLU – we don’t hate religions – we just hate Christianity!" Get it? Because people will read the signs and … Read More
That’s Why We’re Fighting?
Here’s what they’re saying at RedState about the rationale for the war (hey, at least somebody’s saying it: The black-and-white, "get the bad guys" approach can be heard from the Democrats and their allies in the MSM and the American left. They are the ones with the GET OBL! mentaility, as if removing the main bad guys will solve the … Read More
Jon Stewart and Christopher Hitchens
As I watched "The Daily Show" last night, in which Jon Stewart debated Christopher Hitchens about the Iraq War, I thought many things: "This is how it should be done. None of the screaming pundits, like on Fox, MSNBC, or even CNN. It’s intelligent AND entertaining" "Damn, Stewart is good. He’s going toe-to-toe with Hitchens" "”Tell me why I’m wrong’, … Read More
Taking Powerline Seriously
Paul Mirengoff makes it clear why the other guys at Powerline don’t let him post so much. Today he writes about "Taking The President Seriously": The subject on yesterday’s edition of the O’Reilly Factor was how long we have to turn things around in Iraq. O’Reilly thought that President Bush has about six months to show the American people that … Read More