Remember the first two weeks of July, when the “big story” of the presidential campaign was that Barack Obama moved (or was about to move) towards John McCain’s position on Iraq policy? The story was a fantasy, based on literally nothing, but it dominated the political discourse for weeks. The McCain campaign went so far […]
Just to let readers know, I’m back and had a good day off. There was some speculation about what I did with my day, so here’s the scoop: Saturday contributor Morbo and his family (the Morbosons) came for a visit. It was good to see them, even though this means he won’t contribute any posts […]
Guest post by Ron Chusid Republicans try to win elections by using fear. Fear of terrorism has been their major act for the past several years, and before that they used fear of Communism. If that’s not enough, they’ll scare voters by saying Democrats will take way their guns or bibles. Then there’s their old […]
Guest Post by Adam This time I promise asterisks. Er, bullet points. Zbigniew Brzezinski doesn’t think more troops in Afghanistan are the answer. Both candidates now essentially favor an increase in troops in the area. McCain now likes the idea of a Nuremberg style trial for Osama Bin Laden. Weeks ago McCain mocked Obama for […]
Guest Post by Ron Chusid When I was guest blogging at The Carpetbagger Report in January I wrote a post on Ron Paul which demonstrated (especially from the comments many wrote in response to the post) that there is a lot of irrationality in the libertarian movement. Fortunately the Paul supporters represent only one segment […]
Guest post by Steve M. A couple of days ago, in a post about Jonah Goldberg’s intellectually bankrupt but disturbingly influential Liberal Fascism, Jesse Taylor made a good point about what’s going on in politics now: … what Goldberg has done is provide intellectual cover for a growing meme: Obama is the leader of a […]
Guest Post by Adam It’s not so much a rule as an instinct: I generally cringe when the first thing someone says to me is how comfortable they are with black people. (Uh, thanks?) It’s partially because I’m one of those people who happens to believe everyone’s a little racist. But that doesn’t really matter […]
Guest Post by Adam As a regular CR reader, I know people love these so I’ll try my best to reproduce one. Apparently a Yeshiva student stole Obama’s prayer from the Western Wall (it’s a custom to insert a small piece of paper with a prayer into the cracks…at this point, the cracks in the […]
Guest Post by Adam Bill O’Reilly has absolutely no sense of proportion, as befits someone who is essentially a walking violation of Godwin’s Law. But earlier this week, he outdid himself, as he sometimes does: While discussing MoveOn.org’s “Petition Against Fox’s Racist & Hate-Filled Smears” on the July 23 edition of Fox News’ The O’Reilly […]
Guest Post by Ron Chusid Steve M. has beaten me to commenting on one item I was thinking about writing on so I will keep this brief. As he mentioned, John McCain was critical of Barack Obama’s statement in his speech in Germany where he referred to himself as a citizen of the world. As […]