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Tag Archives: Politics
If elected, he will not serve!
I’ve been remiss in not wishing Alan Bedenko well on his run for the Erie County Legislature. So, best wishes to him, and high hopes that he wins. I’d pledge to vote for him, but I’m not in his district. … Continue reading
Let me know when he loses Glenn Reynolds and the Powerline boys….
George Bush has lost the support of Richard Mellon Scaife. This would be like…I don’t know, me rooting for the Patriots or something. Wow. (Via TBogg)
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He must have forgotten to have his readers Google it for him.
Matthew Yglesias has yet another in a long series of utterances by Jonah Goldberg that fail to live up to facts about the world. I know, it’s not a news flash when Goldberg turns out to have his head squarely … Continue reading
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I hate our political discourse.
[I feel like ranting about politics a bit, so rant I shall. Move on if you don’t like it when I get in this mood.] I don’t read Glenn Greenwald all that much anymore these days, primarily because it gets … Continue reading
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I’d forgotten what reason sounds like
A few key passages from Fareed Zakaria’s article in Newsweek: Today, by almost all objective measures, the United States sits on top of the world. But the atmosphere in Washington could not be more different from 1982. We have become … Continue reading
Let’s not let this become a quadrennial event.
May 1, four years ago: Today: Al Qaeda is getting stronger. The “surge” isn’t working yet. Four years into the War on Terror, terrorist attacks are sharply up. More than 100 soldiers in Iraq dead this month alone. Setting self-defense … Continue reading
Mr. Jaw, meet Mr. Floor
[Brief political rant here] You know all the sanctimonious crap we always have to endure from Republicans over the manners of Democrats at funerals? The whole “They got political in a time of mourning!” thing? Yeah, I love that. Fox … Continue reading
The “Straight Talk Express”?!
Senator John McCain goes to Iraq and comes back saying all the standard right-wing stuff about how safe things really are over there, and how hyped up the reports of violence are, yada yada yada. You know, “we’re just not … Continue reading
Little Annie
Glenn Greenwald on Ann Coulter, who continues to get the plum speaking engagements when members of the Right get together: [T]he single most prestigious political event for conservatives of the year is a place where conservatives go to hear Democrats … Continue reading
Sunday Burst of Weirdness
Can there be any doubt? By far the biggest Weird Thing to cross my radar screen this week as Conservapedia. Nothing else even came close, and nothing else to date has so perfectly illustrated for me the tendency of much … Continue reading