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…
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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…
Orlando explained! Well, sort of.
Over at Bloomberg, Pankaj Mishra gives a nice take on “The Messy Mind of Omar Mateen”, noting that, among other things, “Mateen was mentally unstable, according to his divorced first wife. His Afghan-born father spoke of his son’s hatred of gays. Obama confirmed that the Islamic State had not directed the attack even though Mateen…
The Moral of Omar Mateen
The moral of Omar Mateen is that there will be no early end to the disastrous “War on Terror”, which is painfully damaging our culture and causing us to waste hundreds of billions of dollars on a massive and useless military. These are the fruits of “hegemonisn” or “exceptionalism”, promoted so assiduously ever since the…
Glenn Reynolds now officially a cantankerous old fart
It seems like it was only yesterday that I was devoting a withering (so I hoped) footnote to some recent balderdash emitted by Glenn “Stay Off My Lawn, Negro” Reynolds, who’s now topped his previous balderdash by a very wide margin, a margin that, in fact, tends towards infinity. The gist of Glenn’s latest outburst…
Nick Gillespie’s journée de folie
A stopped clock is right twice a day. Nick Gillespie, Editor in Chief, Reason.com and Reason TV, is wrong once a year. This year, Nick’s journée de folie fell on May 23, when he came up with less than scintillating thumb-sucker, “This Used To Be a Helluva High-Trust Country, But Our Leaders Are Destroying That”….
What Hath Trump Wrought?
Which is more decadent, Donald Trump or the Annual Gala of the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York? Okay, trick question, because there is no wrong answer. But putting the Donald in perspective does take some work. Yet the sources of the Donald aren’t hard to find: the stumblings and…
“We suck,” says U.S. Army
Well, that’s the word from a breathless Bryan Bender, over at Politico, citing both a “secret” (more or less) “high-level but low-profile” report on Russian military capabilities and recent congressional testimony from Lt. General H. R. McMaster: “POLITICO has learned that, following the stunning success of Russia’s quasi-secret incursion into Ukraine, McMaster is quietly overseeing…
The Wrath of Krauthammer
It is a truism among big-time journalists that you always sell the same piece three times. It is a fact of human nature that we enjoy pissing on our enemies. And it is thus a double pleasure for me to take another poke at one of my favorite hypocrites, Charles Krauthammer. Charles Krauthammer is not…
Justice Scalia, very big, very fat liar REVISITED
Want to read words of praise for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin “Nino” Scalia by a renowned liberal legal scholar? Harvard’s Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, has just the article for you, praising both Nino’s integrity and his “extraordinary life-loving laugh.” Want to read an ill-tempered diatribe by a…