I watched The Daily Show episode with Marc Thiessen and all I wanted to to smack his pasty fat white face. I wanted to waterboard him. But, that isn’t going to happen. Conor Friedersdorf has a take down that is worth reading. It is about an innocent man being held at Gitmo for seven years [...]
As a veteran, one of the things that has irritated me the most is the speed with which the US Government, under the Bush Administration so speedily turned into depraved psychopaths and started directing individuals to be tortured. This torture was overseen by people in the highest levels of government. A speechwriter for President Bush [...]
I see things like this headline and my pulse goes up.
Irving Kristol saved the right from intellectual bankruptcy in the ’60s. Who will save it now?
What a crock of shit. Irving Kristol was a gas bag and so is his son.
The root of all evil is not the love of money. The root of all evil is the willingness to lie and call it the truth. Representative Ryan of Wisconsin is calling his tax plan fair, but here are the highpoints:
Provides individual income tax payers a choice of how to pay their taxes – through [...]
I want to see Frank Rich go toe to toe with George Will on the Sunday morning TV shows. Rich would float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. It would be beautiful. I think that Rich is pretty good with the right cross too.
No one knows what history will make of the present [...]
CPAC just finished in Washington DC. Glenn Beck was the headliner. He bills himself as a conservative, but what kind of conservative is he?
When I think about conservatism, I reflect on the Frisch play, “Biedermann and the Firebugs” (Biedermann und die Brandstifter). The play was written at time when Germans were trying to answer the [...]
Scott Horton writes about Dick Cheney’s recent escapades.
“I was a big supporter of waterboarding,” Cheney said in an appearance on ABC’s This Week on Sunday. He went on to explain that Justice Department lawyers had been instructed to write legal opinions to cover the use of this and other torture techniques after the White House [...]
The Tea Partiers get down to cases. It is not hard to read between the lines in this piece and see that the way they see the Constitution is, “Me, the People of the United States”. They act as if they are the final arbiters of the democratic form of government and that [...]
Matt tells it like it is.
It always strikes me that the United States could learn a lot from how India responds to terrorist attacks. From an outsider point of view, India seems to have a few clear priorities. They want robust economic growth. They want to maintain a clear military edge over Pakistan. They want [...]
Here is what most people don’t realize with regard to conservative political ideas. They can be understood by a 14 year old. Ideas that address all the complexity of the world can be mastered by someone who really hasn’t studied history. That is because conservative political ideas are devoid of historical reflection, [...]