Legal humor here. “He died very happy.” Yep, that’s old C.J. Enigmatic to the end.” “He shorted Google.” “Well, the stonecutters loved him, even if no one else did.” “Inside it’s all hollow, hollow as the man himself.” “Halloween ’65. Harry and I did it right on top of…
Zany, rambling Jennifer Rubin, wakin’ up in the house that Krauthammer built
Hilarious, unself-conscious self-parody from Jennifer Rubin who denounces “zany, rambling” Sarah Palin and Donald Trump for being as kooky as, well, Jennifer Rubin. Like David Brooks, Sarah has decided that unscrupulous demogaguery is only a good thing when it helps the Republican establishment. Sorry, guys. You built the monster. You’ve always had blood on your…
Getting to Denmark: Turn left at the light, and read your Bible!
Francis Fukuyama, who did a pretty good job writing the history of the world from 10,000 BC to 1789 in his book The Origins of Political Order, and a not so great job writing its history from 1789 to the present in Political Order and Political Decay1, frequently talks about “getting to Denmark”—enjoying the benefits…
David Brooks, livin’ in the house that Krauthammer built
Establishment icon/piñata David Brooks, who surely was born with a “Kick Me Repeatedly, And With A Passion” sign on his broad rear end, has done it again, announcing that it is time for all good Republicans to come to the aid of their party and prevent that awful Donald Trump or that awful Ted Cruz…
The Way We Were, and Why We Won’t Be Going Back There
Donald Trump from the right and Bernie Sanders from the left are leading the charge, not back to the future, but rather back to the past, a past that many if not most of their followers can’t even remember. This is why: As late as 1970, the “West”—basically, western Europe and North America—held an overwhelming…
Kevin D. Williamson, last seen frothing and lying, wildly
Poor Kevin D. Williamson, the National Review’s “roving correspondent”! He tries to do good, but he just can’t help lying his damn ass off whenever he comes near a Democrat. Kevie D. has a post up at the NR, telling Ted Cruz that a lot of decent folks live in New York City, and maybe…
The House that Krauthammer built
Back in the day, back in 1987, when the facts of what became known as the Iran-Contra scandal first hit the fan, wide-eyed Reaganite Andy Sullivan was appalled. Ronald Reagan’s White House secretly sold weapons to Iranian terrorists and used the money to finance Nicaraguan “freedom fighters” (aka “terrorists”), an activity specifically banned by the…
Iraq now must be seen as the Republicans’ Vietnam
Well, it was a long time coming, but now it’s here. Heresy-speakers Donald Trump and Ted Cruz walked away with the most recent Republican debate. Both Trump and Cruz have repeatedly and explicitly rejected the regime change meme that has been the foundation stone of Republican foreign policy since 9/11. And will no one notice…
Avishai Cohen—“Criss Cross”
Very clever, those North Koreans? Well not really
Joel S. Wit is a senior fellow at the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University and founded the website 38North. I am neither of those things, but I found his recent opinion piece in the New York Times, “How ‘Crazy’ Are the North Koreans?”, thoroughly off-putting. “I probably shouldn’t say this, but I take my…