I enjoy reading the columns of Daniel Larison, featured at the American Conservative, though, to my mind, he does go off the rails from time to time on theological matters. Like few of us, Mr. Larison is a Russian Orthodox, and he regards the theology of the Greek Fathers as his particular bailiwick, complaining bitterly…
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Chris Christie’s theory of broads
Well, that was unfair, wasn’t it? As I’ve said before, this is the blogosphere, where unfairness is a way of life. My headline should be “Chris Christie’s mother’s theory of broads,” which doesn’t quite have the same ring. But, anyway, here is Chris Christie’s mother’s theory of broads, as Chris explained it for the Republican…
You don’t get it—she deserved to die!
That seems to be the gist of conservatives’ complaints regarding the Romney campaign’s argument that if Ranae Soptic had lived in Massachusetts, she wouldn’t have died of cancer, thanks to RomneyCare. Ranae’s sad story is the centerpiece of the, um, “controversial” ad made by Ranae’s surviving spouse Joe on behalf of Priorities USA, a pro-Obama…
Which of these three is different from the others?
Last week the New York Times broke an important story, on the widespread practice of the willingness of the press, including the New York Times itself, to let political and government officials write their own quotes. “Quote approval is standard practice for the Obama campaign, used by many top strategists and almost all midlevel aides…
Tom Edsall, not really getting a handle on the whole apples to apples thing
Over at the New York Times (yeah, the New York Times), in an entry titled “The Politics of Anything Goes,” Tom Edsall notes, or rather conjectures, that the Obama campaign is spending lots of money on ads dissing Mitt Romney, ads that “target not only whites without college degrees, but in particular white men without…
Alan Vanneman, Doubly Wrong
Earlier this week I took a prolonged pot shot at Peggy Noonan, for claiming that the selection of Condoleezza Rice as Mitt Romney’s running mate would be “brilliant choice.” In fact, I said, the selection of Condi would be applauded by about six people, ending my post with an exceedingly under-researched rhetorical flourish suggesting that…
Peggy Noonan is brilliant, if she does say so herself
Yes, Peggy Noonan is brilliant, and she does say so herself, frequently. In a recent column, which is 90 percent windup and 10 percent pitch—or 90 percent windup and 10 percent jive, depending on how you score it—Peggy bemoans the lack of “passion” in the current campaign. Naturally, she has an idea—almost an epiphany, as…
The Revolting Realists
Last week the New York Times ran an article with the headline “Some G.O.P. Foreign Policy Experts Are Tepid on Romney,” pointing out that aging stalwarts Henry Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft, and Colin Powell have not been falling all over themselves to endorse the Mitt-Man. And Kissinger himself, always the voice of calculation if not reason,…
Leon Panetta: Less than inch from being a douchebag
U.S. troops film themselves urinating on corpses in Afghanistan. U.S. and allied troops burn copies of the Koran. A U.S. soldier goes berserk and murders 16 innocent Afghans. U.S. troops pose for photographs holding severed hands and legs. U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, we learn, has been flying home every weekend, to visit his…
Not “allow,” Peggy; “demand”
Over at the Wall Street Journal (subscription only), Peggy Noonan, wrapping up the 2012 Republican presidential primaries, complains that Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, et al. “are allowing the GOP to be painted as the war party.” They aren’t “allowing” it to happen, Peggy. They’re demanding it. But thanks for putting in a plug…