Scribbling, scribbling, scribbling on the Internet.
Why? Because Harry Reid--the worst Senate majority leader in history--is retiring. I imagine that there are people who will miss him, but they shouldn't; Reid's corruption (I've only cited a couple of cases here) and the incredibly nasty way he behaved towards political opponents--including the adoption of McCarthyite tactics--brought shame and disrepute upon the United States …
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In Des Moines this past weekend, Sarah Palin gave a speech, and at long last the vultures began to circle. “A tragedy,” declared Joe Scarborough, on Morning Joe; “bizarro,” ajudged the London Times’ Toby Harnden; “an interminable ramble,” said Iowa professor Sam Clovis. These, alas were among the kinder adjectives. In the Washington Examiner, Byron York treated those …
I stand by what I wrote today: the videos of [ISIL] beheadings need to be independently confirmed before they are part of the historical record. They may well be completely accurate but there are not yet independent confirmations that they are accurate. On a larger picture note: had an evening with a group of well-informed …
Longtime readers are well aware that I do not take Matthew Yglesias seriously as a compelling thinker. Yglesias is one of the sources of inspiration--if not the source--for Yousefzadeh's Law, which states that "[t]here is no meritocracy in the field of punditry." (If one prefers, one may use the Peter Principle to explain Yglesias's rise in the …
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