Donald Trump will be our very worst president, by a very wide margin, because Donald Trump is the apotheosis of the Tea Party, the culmination of Republican lawlessness—that is to say, an impatience and contempt for “rules” that eventually transforms itself into a delight in their violation—that has been growing stronger and stronger since the…
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Vanneman praises Friedman; Heavens sway, just a little
Yes, it’s true. Thomas Friedman—the guy who said we should invade Iraq “because we can”—has written a brilliant column, “Bibi Netanyahu Makes Trump His Chump”, whose first two paragraphs read as follows: “For those of you confused over the latest fight between President Obama and Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu of Israel, let me make it…
Captain Kangaroo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brCNJHFdYFI This is “Geezer Memories Week” at Literature R Us. I was actually a little old for Captain Kangaroo (aka Bob Keeshan), which didn’t premiere until I was 10, and a great deal of the time I “watched” it only because my little sisters were watching as I got ready for school. Still, I appreciated…
Hillary Clinton, Loser?
Only in America would a woman who outpolled her opponent by close to three million votes be declared a “loser”. That is to say, only a woman running for president, because in every other election in the U.S.—and there are, of course, thousands—the person with the most votes wins. But because Hillary Clinton was running…
Michael V. Hayden, mightily covering ass
Michael V. Hayden, you may be interested to know, is currently a principal at the Chertoff Group and visiting professor at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, and was formerly director of the National Security Agency from 1999 to 2005 and the Central Intelligence Agency from 2006 to 2009. He has a…
Liberals, lost on a highway paved with good intentions
As a card-carrying liberal I probably shouldn’t be pushing this, but over at Slate you can see Heather Tirado Gilligan struggling to obey the dictates of both political correctness and common sense with regard to the Women, Infants, and Children Program, devised by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (and the U.S. Congress) to improve the…
News on the Right: the Splinters Splintered!
Okay, only by a generous stretch of the imagination (mine) is the Washington Post “on the right”, but in fact the Post’s editorial page has been aggressively “neocon”, bordering on Likudist at times, what with George Will, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Cohen, Jennifer Rubin, Anne Applebaum and Fred Hiatt ramping up the room in favor of…
I spent $800 billion in Afghanistan and all they gave me was this lousy tee-shirt
As R. Jeffrey Smith, who hangs his hat at the Center for Public Integrity, so admirably demonstrates, every word of that headline is true, except the part about the tee-shirt. Jeff puts the blame on Hillary, but I’d give the lion’s share to President Obama, who rather gratuitously decided that Afghanistan was the “good war,”…
Donald Trump probably not as bad as the Spanish flu, Conor Friedersdorf avers
As World War I was coming to an end, the Spanish1 flu epidemic killed an estimated 675,000 Americans. Would a Trump presidency produce a similar body count? asks the Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf. Well, probably not, Conor, but I, in turn, have a question for you. Would the United States recover as quickly, and as completely,…
N. Gregory Mankiw is lower than a snake in a wagon’s track
N. Gregory Mankiw is brilliant and prominent, a professor of economics at Harvard University, author of a best-selling introductory economics textbook, and, under President George W. Bush, chair of the president’s board of economic advisors.1 So why he is talking total bullshit on the estate tax in the New York Times? Well, as Greg tells…