The first rule of extortion is, you don’t call it extortion. When thugs come around to collect, they don’t act like their taking your money, they act like their claiming theirs.
Has the Ayn Rand “Cult” Brainwashed the Tea Party?
April 12, 2011 By
Leftist Rule for Engaging Conservative Ideas #1: conservatives’ motives are never what they claim. It must be rigorously asserted that right-wingers are invariably driven by impulses more sinister than making people better off or trying to find solutions to the problems we face. New Republic senior editor Jonathan Chait knows that lesson by heart—on the Daily Beast, he argues that from the lowliest Tea Partier all the way up to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), the Right is animated by a view of “the poor as parasites” and “the rich as our rightful rulers,” a dogma we’ve picked up from philosopher Ayn Rand.
Jews Who Cheapen the Holocaust
May 4, 2010 By 20 Comments
Why would a Jewish New York Times columnist use the term “Kristallnacht” when talking about American tea partiers?
Would You Buy a Used Car From Nancy Pelosi?
March 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Like a used car salesman, giddy at the prospect of unloading an old Ford LTD, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, is flaunting yesterday’s Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score as proof that Utopia costs nothing. The tragedy is that many will believe her – at least until the interest rate resets to 39%, the baling [...]
Who Poses the Greater Threat?
March 8, 2010 By 6 Comments
Thomas Sowell’s new book reminds us who puts liberty at peril.
Frank Rich and the State of Liberal Commentary
February 10, 2010 By 28 Comments
No well-known leftist columnist better exemplifies the worst aspects of today’s left.
Midnight Snack: The 100 Best Albums of the Decade according to Rolling Stone
December 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I wrote this blog post yesterday responding to Rolling Stone’s Rob Sheffield’s lament for the past 10 years. The political reflection proceeded the unveiling of the magazine’s list of best albums, songs, artists, and films of the decade.
For tonight’s Midnight Snack, here’s the complete list of albums along with a few remarks on select titles:
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The GOP should call Obama’s greenhouse gas bluff.
“Keith Olbermann is not a black person.” Will this woman please run for office?
Nathanial Stuart has done something so remarkable, so groundbreaking that no MSNBC reporter could even fathom the sheer novelty of the idea: Have a conversation with an actual black person at a Tea Party protest.
Stuart has produced an excellent video of candid yet illuminating comments by “conservatives of color” who were present at the Washington [...]