Dirk Raulf, saxophonist and composer from Cologne/Germany and founder of bass sax quartet DEEP SCHROTT, with an excerpt of a solo concert at Martin Luther Church, Cologne. Dirk usually plays bass sax, so he really had to tighten up for this one. Recorded live feb. 24th, 2010, by Christian Ebert. Uploaded by Kanal Von Dikajora.
Terrorism never prosper, what’s the reason? If it pass out enough money to the right people, and help murder the “wrong” people, none dare call it terrorism.
Daniel Larison and Glenn Greenwald have long been on the trail of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (“Warriors of God”), or MEK, a terrorist group that now is no longer a terrorist group, thanks to a little magic wand waving by Hillary Clinton’s State Department. MEK has long been supported by “pay me enough money and I’ll…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “We understand that you’re a man of mystery. We’d just prefer that you not be one in our bed.” “Well, Bill, I’d take one in the gut for you too. You know that.” “Neither of us has any idea concerning what happened to Doc Knows in the Fifth at Santa Anita. Now,…
Tim Pawlenty, laboring under the misapprehension that the average home in the Washington, DC area costs $10 million
Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty is leaving his job as co-chair of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign to take a new one, CEO of the Financial Services Roundtable, which is, guess what, a major lobbying outfit in DC. Salary for the new gig is going to be around $1.8 million. In an article in “THE HILL,”…
Barack Obama, luckie duckie
Imagine if Muslim demonstrators in Egypt hadn’t gathered outside the U.S. embassy in Cairo on September 11 to denounce a bizarre and obscure video speaking ill of Mohammed. Then the murderous attack on the American consulate in Benghazi would have been seen as a pre-meditated terrorist attack from the beginning, and the entire focus of…
Obama’s invasion of Poland explained
“Reading about Obama’s race fixation in the middle of suburban banality is akin to reading Hitler’s obsessive musing on his Germanic identity.”—from Ann Coulter’s new book, Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama
Michael Lewis, not really one of America’s finest journalists, takes presidential porn to a new level
If you’re an important blogger on the web, a Felix Salmon, say, or a Conor Friedersdorf, it’s considered good form to compliment Michael Lewis before pointing out obliquely that he’s full of shit. Conor does so in this excellent takedown, more of Obama himself than Mike, “How Obama Ignored Congress, and Misled America, on War…
Romney turns the base up to eleven
When it rains it pours, eh? Yesterday I said the all-Republican pissing contest reported on Sunday in Politico was a momentary pleasure, but Romney’s new “Midnight in Boca” tape has turned pints into gallons. Romney’s pretending that he’s standing by his remarks, despite their lack of elegance, though of course he’s pretending that he didn’t…
Republicans piss on Republicans, make an old man smile (briefly)
Hysterical Muslim protests of a stupid video threaten to girdle the globe, while the Obama Administration repeats how much it hates, hates, hates people who say mean things about Mohammed, while never mentioning that 1) it is not illegal, or even necessarily wrong, or even inaccurate, to say things about Mohammed that some people might…
David Frum, Master of the Muslim Mind
David Frum has surely not said the stupidest thing about the current crisis in the Middle East, and Egypt in particular. Still. The Obama administration has staked its foreign policy on the assumption that the best way to deal with radical Islam is by engaging with radical Islam, thus splitting the men of violence from…