Okay, I’m a week late and a dollar short with this one. Who cares? They’re Republicans! Plus, Rick is fooling with the birther thing, Herman doesn’t know if he’s pro-choice or not and he also can’t remember how much he hates gays. So these guys are totally free game in my book. So, why did…
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Donald Rumsfeld’s head: It’s Alive!
Last week I ended a post on the imminent (well, end of the year) withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq with a melodramatic flourish, comparing the U.S embassy in Iraq to an empty skull staring out across the desert sands with sightless eyes—the idea being that the embassy, built by the Bush Administration at the…
Murder most foul, continued
I seem to spend an unconscionable amount of time making fun of the New Yorker on this blog, but sometimes they nail it. The nailer, in this case, is Amy Davidson, with this blog entry on the Obama Administration’s latest triumph, the murder of Anwar al-Awlaki’s 16-yer-old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, which, Amy says, makes her…
Disaster, Death, and Destruction—the Bush Legacy
In its more than 1200 years of existence, Baghdad has accumulated many monuments to human greed, stupidity, and folly. The city got off to a very good start in 762 when the caliph Al Mansur founded it as the capital city for the Abbasid Empire and for centuries it was one of the greatest cities…
Touching words, disastrous deeds
It was very moving to hear President Obama speak at the dedication of the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial yesterday. A black President of the United States, speaking of the career of the man symbolized, more than any other, the American civil rights movement, is something worth hearing. I wish that President Obama’s deeds were…
Obama Administration: “We are so that stupid!”
President Obama seems so determined to burnish his butt-kicking rep that he’s willing to turn himself into an international laughing stock, based entirely on information supplied by a Mexican gang member/informant regarding the activities of Iranian-American master spy/used car salesman/party boy Mansour Arbabsiar. As in the plots previously exposed by the federal government to cut…
The Reagan Myth (Part MCCCLXXVII)
During last night’s Republican debate, Rick Perry, showing remarkable presence of mind when responding to a clip of Ronald Reagan arguing on behalf of higher taxes when coupled with cuts in spending. In his diary, Perry pointed out, Reagan wrote that the Democrats took the tax increases but never delivered on the spending cuts. Of…
The anointing of Mitt, the shiving of Rick
Have you heard? Mitt’s the guy. Chris Christie says so. Ramesh Ponnuru says so. Jennifer Rubin says so.* All the cool kids say so. Mitt’s cool! Well, pretty cool. He hasn’t killed as many people as Rick, but, hey, he was in Massachusetts! Wait til he’s President! Look out! It wasn’t so long ago that…
Daniel Larison, working way too hard
Over at the American Conservative, Daniel Larison is working overtime trying to keep Mitt Romney honest on foreign policy, searching his speeches for errors: “Greg Scoblete finds another untrue statement in Romney’s foreign policy speech from last week,” Dan announces excitedly, in his latest post. Dan, let me save you some trouble. In each Mitt…
Jon Hendricks—“In Walked Bud”
John Hendricks & Co (sorry, I don’t know who the “Co” are), with Charlie Rouse (ts), Ben Riley (d), Larry Gales (b), Walter Davis, Jr.(p), circa 1983. Posted by dadazee.