Wash Post columnist David Ignatius is widely regarded as the mouthpiece of the Washington establishment. If it’s conventional wisdom you’re after, Dave is full of it. In a recent column, “NATO’s New Perils, Dave displays, rather despite himself, an awareness that past conventional wisdom is, shall we say, full of it as well. “The NATO…
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Who are the demeanor police?
Well, Jennifer Rubin, that’s who, who nails Jeb Bush for faulty demeanor—lack of “passion”, to be precise—for his limp-wristed takedown of aging Republican realist James Baker, or “the spawn of Beelzebub,” as Jennie likes to call him. We’re watching you, Jeb, we’re watching! Afterwords Previously, Jennie and other hawk-eyed right-wingers pummeled Rand Paul for not…
Two-parent families iz da bomb, says Ramblin’ George Will
There is an old saying in journalism: “Always write the same piece three times.” George F. Will has modified that bit to read “Write the same piece on the Moynihan Report seventy-three times.” George’s latest reiteration of Daniel Patrick’s timeless wisdom on prosperity and family structure (which does hold up pretty well) can be found…
Anne Applebaum sez, “Great Britain ain’t so great!”
Remember when the right wing was constantly accusing the Obama Administration of “throwing our allies under the bus”? Well, now it seems our allies are doing that to us! Anne Applebaum is distressed to notice that the British aren’t all that interested in saving the world these days. Apparently, “The Iraq war turned many in…
Obama failed to predict future, experts say
Graeme Wood has an article in the Atlantic that’s getting lots of play, explaining that “we” have been getting those ISIS guys all wrong, that what they really want is a big battle in Dabiq, a place in Syria, to fought by the Muslim faithful against the armies of “Rome,” a battle that will ultimately…
David Carr and the Great American Media Machine
The death of New York Times media critic David Carr has been greeted with a universal outpouring of affection and grief for a man who “was sometimes blunt, almost always searingly honest,” in the words of Times executive editor Dean Baquet. I guess I don’t entirely agree. None of the articles I read about Carr mentioned the fact that…
The undeflatable George F. Will
There isn’t much about George F. Will that I find endearing, but the one thing that I find totally endearing is his deep dislike—verging on an irrational loathing, really—of football and, most particularly, the Super Bowl. For some reason, the Super Bowl seems to make George feel like—okay, I’m going to go for it—a Jew…
George F. Will, right on target
How many times have I made fun of George F. Will? I’m not sure, and I won’t take it back, but his latest column, on the U.S.A.’s out of control incarceration machine, the Department of Education’s oppressive puritanism, the civil forfeiture racket, and much, much more, is superb. Rock on, Georgie!
Daniel Larison is confused
The mills of God grind exceeding slow but exceeding fine. Mine grind exceeding slow. A decade or two ago in blog years, the American Conservative’s Daniel Larison, writing in a post labeled “George Will and ‘Cuba Derangement Syndrome’,”1 proclaimed himself mystified by Georgie’s “strange conclusion” regarding a dispute between Ky. Sen. Rand Paul and Fl….
Dan Drezner, kickin’ John Kerry’s butt
There was a time, so long ago, when John Kerry thought himself quite the war protester, quite the moralist, throwing away his Vietnam War medals, or at least copies of them, to show what he thought of Washington incompetence and hypocrisy. Well, now he’s personifying the same. According to Josh Rogin, reporting at the Bloomsberg…