A couple of days ago I ran a brief riff on It’s Even Worse Than It Looks, a brief book by Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein whose basic premise is that right-wing Republicans are fucking up America, a premise with which I largely agree. As is so often the case, Mann and Ornstein are stronger…
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Francis Fukuyama, finding what he’s been looking for, again
Well-known Hegelian Francis Fukuyama takes a look into the soul of Egyptian liberals and, predictably, doesn’t like what he sees. Two of the leading candidates for Egypt’s presidency, Fukuyama says, are “suspected of having ties to the military,” another has been endorsed by “the ultra-conservative Salafis,” and the fourth is the candidate of the Muslim…
Cato Cuffs Kochs
At the National Review, more vituperation re the Koch boys, and their determination to teach the Cato Institute a lesson in humility, which has never really struck me as a libertarian virtue. Was Mencken humble? Ayn Rand? Milton Friedman? I’m thinkin’ Dave and Charlie have a tendency to confuse humility with, you know, oriental despotism,…
How many libertarians does it take to screw in a light bulb? An indeterminate number, as long as they remember who owns the damn bulb!
Kerfuffle? Brouhaha? Spat? Tiff? Rape? Clusterfuck? Nobody seems to have a handle on le mot juste for whatever it is that’s going down at 1000 Mass. Avenue, home of the Cato Institute’s refurbished pad, where the Koch Boys, Mannie, Moe, and Jack Dave and Charlie, are trying to muscle out long-time prez Ed Crane. The…
Newt Gingrich is not a racist. He only makes grossly racist statements. All the time.
Over at the Daily Beast, Peter Beinart ties himself into knots trying to explain why “non-racist” Newt Gingrich says racist things, to wit, that black people (and only black people) somehow need to be told that they should stop collecting food stamps and get jobs instead. “Gingrich’s problem isn’t racism,” claims Pete earnestly, the sweat…
Newt Gingrich to black people: Don’t be so goddamn lazy!
“I will go to the NAACP convention and tell the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.” Yes, that’s what Newt Gingrich told the white folks in New Hampshire he would do, but he, obviously, didn’t tell the white folks in New Hampshire that they should demand paychecks instead of food…
Ron Paul: I’m not a bigot, I just pretended to be one to manipulate the masses and cash in on their stupidity
No, that’s not Ron talking, but, from all accounts, if he bothered to tell the truth about the Ron Paul Freedom Report, that’s what he’d say. I refer you to knowledgeable libertarian blogging heads like Shikha Dalmia, Steve Horwitz, and David Wiegel. Dalmia summarizes Horwitz as follows: “Horwitz recounts chapter and verse demonstrating that comments…
For the children, goddamnit, for the children
In a recent posting in the NYT, bible thumpin’ Ross Douthat warns the Christian right to stay the fuck away from Newt Gingrich: “It isn’t just that he’s a master of selective moral outrage whose newfound piety has been turned to consistently partisan ends. It’s that his personal history — not only the two divorces,…
Newt and the Neo-Cons, updated
Last week I noted that noted Likudist Jennifer Rubin has been industriously pissing on Newt Gingrich and every other Republican presidential candidate not addressed as “Mitt” and suggested that this was all a plot on Jennie’s part. Well, welcome Charles to the party, as in Krauthammer. Charles is a lot more subtle than Jennie. Instead…
What is George’s game?
On Monday, I sneered at George Will’s sneering takedown of Mitt Romney. In the couse of his tirade, George also dealt President Obama a glancing sneer, dismissing him as a “floundering naïf,” though I think “bloodthirsty” might have been a more appropriate adjective.* Well, if George hates Mitt, and hates Obama, who does he want…