Yeah, House Speaker Paul Ryan, aka “Lyin’ Paulie Ryan”, seems to have found his true calling: ankle-grabbing for the Donald. While the reactions of most Republicans to Trump’s performance in Monday’s debate ran along the lines of “Hey, he didn’t call Obama a nigger, did he?”, Paulie’s been in full gush, reports Politico’s Rachel Bade:…
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Walinsky Does Trump
Over at Politico, Adam Walinsky gives good head with the following: “I was RFK’s Speechwriter. Now I’m Voting for Donald Trump. Here’s Why.” What follows is a depressingly accurate account of Hillary Clinton’s Putin-phobia, her school-girl earnest conviction that Mr. Putin “needs to be taught a lesson.” Mrs. Clinton, with all her vaunted knowledge of…
“Disciplined” thievery gets Ryan nod
According to House Speaker Paul Ryan, Donald Trump is “more disciplined” these days. How is that, Paulie? Because he’s staying “on message” about stealing Iraqi oil? Every prominent Republican who has not announced, at the least, that s/he will not vote for Donald Trump lacks even a shred of honor. “Establishment Republicans”—which includes every surviving…
Eli Lake, from 20/80 to 80/20, pretty much
Back in the day—July 10, 2014, to be precise—I whaled on Bloomberg’s Eli Lake for pulling together a lot of ass-covering/blame-shifting “if only the president had listened to me” quotes from former members of the Obama Administration to explain why the government of former Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki failed to prevent the rise of…
Good American Generals: Were there any?
For some reason, I’ve got the American military on my mind, on my mind. I’ve got the American military on my mind. And I’m wondering: Did we ever have any good generals? I was launched on this avenue of speculation by a recent book review, “Douglas MacArthur’s Brilliant, Controversial Legacy”, by the National Review’s Victor…
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Hillary Clinton getting creative with the truth. Okay, maybe it isn’t news, but still, the New York Times might have reported on Hillary’s latest foray into creative nonfiction, when she told Fox News that FBI Director James Comey said she had been like totally truthful about her emails. But they didn’t. And when NYT public…
Alan Vanneman won’t shut up about Paul Ryan
Well, I won’t. I won’t, because I now have a theory to justify my bombast. For months—nay, years—I have been berating the mainstream media for its continuing Paulie worship (catch up on all the bombast right here). Well, now that the scales have been falling from some eyes, thanks to Paulie’s continuing embrace of Donald…
Ronald Radosh, writing history and then forgetting it
Way back in 1983, Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton published a monument of Cold War scholarship, The Rosenberg File, arguing that while Julius Rosenberg was a very active and successful spy for the Soviet Union, whose conviction though not execution for espionage was well merited, the arrest, indictment, trial, conviction, sentencing, and ultimate execution of…
Larry Wilmore for due process
Comedy Central’s Larry Wilmore is taking on the “No Fly” list, suggesting, among other things, that the list in itself is a violation of due process and that expanding it to become a “No Fly, No Buy” list simply compounds the injustice. Larry also notes shrewdly that anything endorsed by both Donald Trump and Hillary…
The F-35 “Hanger Queen”
I recently stumbled across an intriguing site on the Internet,“War Is Boring”, which featured a necessarily long article—necessarily long because it was titled “Everything Wrong With the F-35”, the F-35 being America’s newest and (of course) most expensive fighter jet. The F-35 is in fact the most expensive weapons project in history, and one that…