Slate scribe Nathaniel Frank delivers a seriously on-target beat down to Colin “Colin the Conqueror” Powell, this time on the subject of gay marriage: “Speaking on CNN Wednesday, Powell said he has ‘no problem’ with same-sex marriage. Before he could utter another sentence on that subject, though, he defensively and dishonestly shirked responsibility for his…
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Colin Powell is a large, overweight liar
Over at Tiny Revolution, Jon Schwarz does yeoman work in exposing what an egregious, not to say four-star, liar Colin Powell is, both in his recent book, It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership, and elsewhere. In his book, the large general harrumphs* re his abysmal 2003 presentation at the UN, giving to the…
Leave the window open, Hillary. Forever
“The window of opportunity will not be open forever,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently warned Iran and the world, demanding that Iran get serious about “negotiating” an agreement that will satisfy the U.S. and Israel that Iran isn’t trying to develop nuclear weapons. Clinton also said she doesn’t think that Iran is serious about…
James Q. Wilson good, James Q. Wilson not so good
James Q. Wilson, paired perhaps too conveniently in death with the rowdy Andrew Breitbart, was hailed as one of the best, or at least one of the most tolerable, of the neo-conservatives, no doubt because he was careful to avoid foreign policy. The “necessary” war in Iraq, and now the even more necessary war in…
Obama to Netanyahu: Don’t attack Iran! Let me do it for you!
Yes, that’s the plan of our president, Barack “The Republicans can’t paint me in a corner if I do it first!” Obama, promising that he can harass, and bully, and humiliate a nation of 70 million people into doing exactly what he wants them to do, shutting his eyes to the fact that he will…
Andrew Breitbart, I won’t miss him
Andrew Breitbart was another in a long line of cigar-chomping bad boys, starting, I guess, with William F. Buckley, Jr., and including such dubious characters as Newt Gingrich, Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., P.J. O’Rourke, and Rush Limbaugh,* propelled into political combat by the pomposity, sanctimony, hypocrisy, and incompetence of the Liberal Imagination, still reigning in many…
Larry Lindsey, looking for work?
Over at the Wall Street Journal, Lawrence Lindsey, briefly director of the National Economic Council under George Bush, goes ballistic on Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner for saying that wealthy Americans should be willing to pay higher taxes for the “privilege of being an American.” According to Larry, “Mr. Geithner’s argument highlights an unfortunate and very…
David Brooks, getting all meshugana because no one will save his fat ass
Over at the NYT, David Brooks gives forth with this primal scream of primal hypocrisy, suddenly noticing that the forces of modern conservatism, which he has aided and abetted for the past twenty years to great personal profit, constitute little more than a mob of know-nothing gangstas. Here’s Dave’s thumbnail of how we got to…
Michael Barone looks at Metro, finds lugubrious morals therein
Over at the National Review, Michael Barone takes a look at Washington, DC’s subway system, or “Metro,” and doesn’t much care for what he sees. “Believers in central planning should take a look at Washington, D.C.’s Metro rail-transit system. While they will find many things to like, they will also see examples of how central…
I did not see this coming
Gary Busey, formerly only intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually bankrupt, is now financially so as well. Eamon Murphy reports the gory details at the tax center,* a previously unknown to me site that seems to get its kicks pissing on the down and out, for it takes Busey’s distress as an excuse to piss on 11…