What if Alice could visit the world of leftist rhetoric and assumptions today?
Brian Riedl: Obama’s Fantasy Jobs – NYPOST.com
February 18, 2010 By 1 Comment
Last year, White House economists claimed that the $862 billion stimulus would create 3.3 million jobs. Since then, the nation has lost more than 3 million jobs. That’s a 6.3 million jobs gap. By the White House’s own standards, the stimulus failed. So President Obama has shifted his argument. Sure, the economy lost jobs, he [...]
The Fallacy of “Fairness”
February 12, 2010 By 24 Comments
Like it or not, success will never be equally distributed.
Jim Geraghty: The Travails of Martha Coakley – National Review Online
January 14, 2010 By 3 Comments
Presumably Martha Coakley, the Massachusetts attorney general aiming to be that state’s next U.S. senator, has more political skill than she’s demonstrated in recent days. She must be on a spectacularly ill-timed run of bad luck and rookie mistakes. As Republican Scott Brown has roared from unknown to potential upset winner, Coakley came under fire [...]
Where Andrew Sullivan’s Head Is
December 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment
A brief addition to yesterday’s post on Andrew Sullivan’s current avocation as Barack Obama’s pooper-scooper. I noted that Sullivan had fecklessly praised the President’s admirable “reticence” in avoiding the serious condemnation of Iran’s mullahs for their murder of protestors in the streets. By Sullivan’s twisted logic, Obama’s shameful silence had a golden lining: preventing Ahmadinejad’s [...]
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A Spoonful of Saccharine: Geopolitical Realities No Barrier to Maddow Blaming Bush for All Problems
December 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
By now, you’ve all seen President Obama’s speech, wherein he agreed to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan (though most definitely not a surge of the kind used in Iraq and suggested by many for quite some time now, we are assured). Now, Rachel Maddow often tries to walk a peculiar line in which she [...]
