The Taliban as Mafia
Here’s what I wrote the other day: Now they [The Taliban] are more like a mafia, in which case syndicate is a better term, but one that works against the grain of the US’...
Daily Archive: May 18, 2009
Quote of the Day
To James Poulos: Having Terry [McAuliffe] around is like having the Geico gecko’s uncharismatic loan shark cousin around, and the Macker knows it. Speaking of the Geico Gecko, if you haven’t seen the Geckham...
faux serious introspection
Daniel Larison takes issue with Obama’s Notre Dame speech and especially Obama’s use of doubt, which Larison maintains is not a quality, but rather “a function of a mind clouded by the passions”. Doubt,...
a quote for when it’s about to rain outside…
Pelosi-gate, in a nutshell: What did one member of the minority party know about the majority party’s illegal war crimes and when did she know it? ~ The Anonymous Liberal
Notre Bama
The text of Obama’s commencement address is here. – Some thoughts on Obama’s speech starting with conspiracy theories and moving from there to Obama’s liberalism and from there to abortion as a test case...
reductio ad absurdum
This is just nonsense. I swear, as hapless as the Democrats may be, every time John Boehner opens his mouth I realize just how much more pathetic the Republicans are. In the midst of...
the disposition
Reihan quotes Jeffrey Toobin: In every major case since he became the nation’s seventeenth Chief Justice, Roberts has sided with the prosecution over the defendant, the state over the condemned, the executive branch over...
old media, meet new media…
…just don’t steal from new media, okay? Oh, the scandal of it all…. For shame!
it was never the case that all terrorists were Muslim
So on the occasion of the apparent demise of the Tamil Tigers, it’s worth pointing out that it was never in fact true, as was often stated in the days and years following 9/11,...
