Yeah, I could have said “Ramesh Ponnuru is a disingenuous dipshit”, or “Ramesh Ponnuru is a Jesuitical jive-ass” (because he’s Catholic), but I like to keep it classy. My latest bitch-fest regarding Mr. Ponnuru is occasioned by a recent post of his in Bloomberg, Trump Tax Cut Was Neither Bane Nor Boon, which I was…
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Will “Race” Sink the Democrats?
Well, I hope not. But one has to worry. Images of New York, Portland, Minneapolis, and Kenosha burning can have a strong impact on the “I’m no racist, but” crowd, who are not charmed by Trump’s general boorishness but don’t like riots. Smart phones are bringing home the ubiquity of racism in police departments across…
Yo, Max Boot! Here’s your explanation! Donald Trump is simply the cherry on top of a pre-existing GOP sh*t sundae!
Max Boot is confused. Noting that nothing Donald Trump says or does, not even pissing on those who die for their country, has any effect on the president’s “base”, he wonders Why do Trump supporters even go through the motions of trying to discredit the latest allegations? Their support hasn’t been shaken by all of…
Alan Greenspan: More Mush from the Wimp
Alan Greenspan, 94 years young and still a pain in the ass, has some words of, well, they’re definitely, you know, words! Here are some of them: China’s current success is happening at a time when the United States sometimes looks as if it has lost its way. America’s politics have taken a populist turn….
Black Lives Matter, but so does the Magnificent Mile
Massive downtown looting in Chicago? You can bet that Fox News filmed every second of it and will be replaying that footage from now until election day and beyond. I don’t know if Chicago police “stood aside”, as they certainly did in the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles in 1992,1 but I do know…
The Silence of the “Right” is Deafening. And Contemptible.
Recently, President Donald Trump was asked to comment on the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell for charges of procuring underage women for notorious sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein back in the 1990s and, more recently, in 2017, for perjuring herself when testifying about the matter. Quoth1 the Donald I just wish her well, frankly. I’ve met her…
Colin Powell can talk! I did not see this coming!
Yes, four-star general of the army Colin Powell can talk! I did not know this! And, as it turns out, he’s pretty good at it!, blasting Donald Trump for “drifting away from the Constitution,” “lying all the time”, demonizing immigrants, and grotesquely exploiting the death of George Floyd in a typically Trumpian orgy of self-congratulation….
When does it stop getting worse?
The good news is, the awareness of the prevalence of police brutality in these United States has reached such a point that even Donald Trump feels compelled to express sympathy for its victims. The bad news is, everything else. Unsurprisingly, El Trumpo stayed on message for approximately two seconds, before veering off to denounce, you…
Hey, Donald Trump! You haven’t just lost Ann Coulter! You’ve lost every self-involved, immigrant-hatin’ bottle blonde in the country! I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY!
I confess that I haven’t been keeping up with Ann Coulter much these days, for the simple reason that I have a life! Shuffleboard season is almost upon us—I refer, of course, to “deck shuffleboard”—real shuffleboard—not that banal travesty known as “table shuffleboard”—and those cues won’t polish themselves. Fortunately, the American Conservative’s Rod Dreher has…
Shorter Bill Barr: “Let it be said of me that in Donald Trump’s first administration I released the guilty. And let it be said of me that in Donald Trump’s second administration I jailed the innocent.”
Over at Lawfare, Robert S. Litt, former associate attorney general (under Clinton) and former general counsel for the Director of National Intelligence (under Obama), makes short work of Attorney General William Barr’s thimble and pea sleight of hand that converted Michael Flynn’s arrant lies into airy nothingness on the grounds that they could not be…