Okay, this is not as important as, say, Melania Trump’s tribute to husband Donald, which in itself is not that big a deal, I mean, for an immigrant.1 It’s not like she committed rape, for Pete’s sake. So what I’m writing about is even less of a big deal. But still. In the first place,…
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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…
Pride goeth before a fall? I sure hope so!
At the corner of 18th and Massachusetts, less than two blocks from my condo, stands this fine, five-story Beaux Arts structure, sometimes known as the Andrew Mellon Building. For several years now, the American Enterprise Institute has been laboring to turn 1785 Mass into a headquarters posh enough for their exalted egos, counting among their number…
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…
Robert Kagan, hoist on Fareed Zakaria’s bare bodkin
At the Washington Post, Fareed Zakaria notes the long-time silence of “principled conservatives” regarding decades of Republican thuggery in the name of power. Zakaria seems to take particular pleasure in skewering Robert Kagan, whom I skewered earlier for his tardy recognition of Republican sins. Sure, Trump is terrible, says Fareed, but how and why is…
Phony Evenhandedness, Case Nos. 377,421,904-6
Golly! That President Obama! When Republicans tell outrageous and disgusting lies, he just tells the truth! Why, he’s almost as bad as they are! That’s the gist of the bizarre rap of TV big-shot (five Emmys!) Jeff Greenfield in a recent piece for Politico Magazine, headed “Getting the Politics of Fear Right: Trump exploits our…
The Republican Civil Wars
Over at Reason, Matt Welch is keeping watch over the continuing Republican kerfuffle/steel cage death match being waged by the Trumpians and the Republican Establishment. Matt found a particularly piquant angle, noting the rage with which the National Review has been treating Trump in recent days, after, well, after saying what great ideas he has…