Loyalty and the Shirley Sherrod affair
I’d like to fully endorse this post from Noah Millman. I was talking to my wife about the Shirley Sherrod affair and she basically said, who cares if a blog posted the video? Most...
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The weak presidency
Via Jonathan Chait, the other other Jonathan* – Jonathan Bernstein, not Jonathan Cohn – has a handy rebuttal to this Greenwald post. Greenwald, whose admirable passion may have gotten ahead of his political science...
Giving BP the ACORN treatment
Jeremy Scahill thinks the U.S. Government should end its contracts with BP: Contrast the Congressional response to ACORN’s federal contracts with its response to BP, which does billions of dollars in business with the...
The case against math
“A Jefferson County teacher picked the wrong example when he used assassinating President Barack Obama as a way to teach angles to his geometry students.”
Your quote for the day
“If I’m a war criminal, then Barack Obama is a war criminal,” Rove said. Words every civil libertarian Democrat ought to chew on, I think.
Kagan and the Conservatives
I haven’t had enough time to dig into soon-to-be-Justice Kagan’s record in nearly the depth that I would like, and I’m not expecting to have all that much time to provide a fitting analysis. ...
Anti-statists and the current regime
Bob Cheeks asks: “Do you see yourself, in some degree, to be anti-statist? What is your opinion of the current regime?” Well I suppose I do consider myself to be anti-statist, but I’m also...
The Tea Party-Social Conservative Split
Tension between libertarian-leaning tea partiers and the GOP’s social conservative base was probably inevitable, but the most interesting part of the Politico’s story on a split within the movement is a disagreement over the...
The politics of pettiness ctd.
Scott has a thoughtful follow-up to my anti-pettiness screed. I want to point out, however, that far more than the problems with populism, I was writing about the problems with elites manipulating it for...
Forget The President, He’s Not That Important (On Domestic Policy)
The interspheres have been aglow with the leaking of a planned spending freeze proposal by the Obama Administration. A run down of various opinions can be found in Scott’s post. Scott writes: This is politics...
Obama’s secret vault
Chuck Norris is much more entertaining as a conspiracy theorist than he was as an actor. He takes teh crazy to whole new levels.
The nation’s pulse and other nonsense
I know that columnists rarely write their own titles but this Maureen Dowd column lives up to the awfulness of its headline. I suppose I just don’t see the nation actually freaking out as...
Misconceptions of presidential disapproval
Allahpundit jumps on the Obama-approval-ratings-are-dropping bandwagon and, like most conservatives who try to interpret the data, totally misses the point: More than 60 percent of indies disapprove of his handling of health care and the...
Best Conspiracy Theory Ever
Tennessee Mayor accuses Obama of deliberately preempting “A Charlie Brown Christmas” in his speech at West Point because he’s “a secret Muslim.”
For The Record
Jonah Goldberg (among others) seems offended by the fact that Obama blames the situation in Afghanistan on his predecessor. Blaming Bush may be evergreen for the Democrats, but in this case, it happens to...
China Revisionism
James Fallows has an interesting post on the media’s reaction to Obama’s recent China visit.
No Private Sector Experience Necessary
I’m not sure if this chart on the professional background of Obama’s cabinet appointments is a weird outlier or a telling indicator, but it’s pretty interesting nonetheless.
Andy McCarthy, just askin’ questions
Seriously, National Review. This is getting embarrassing: I didn’t suggest that Bill Ayers is the author of one of Barack Obama’s biographies — I reported that someone else had made the suggestion and had...
For the record
Predictably enough, Obama has attracted some nonsensical criticism for reiterating his support for the “one-China” principle. So it’s worth remembering that Bush not only opposed formally recognizing Taiwanese independence, he was actually criticized for...
You say Obama, I say Osama
I read this post over at The Dish and quite honestly thought it said “Obama” and not “Osama.” Which changes everything, of course. Read the following passage substituting the word Osama with Obama: Paul...
