This Week In Quotes: Nov 20 – Nov 26

No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems– of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind. — Michael Barone What a good country or a good […]

 


Hey, Matthew Yglesias, Why Don’t You Quit And Let A Minority Have Your Job?

Rather bizarrely, after noting that Obama is much more popular with minorities than white people, Matthew Yglesias wrote the following: About 50 percent of Americans approve of Obama’s job performance, but he’s overwhelmingly liked among non-white Americans and quite widely disliked by white Americans. Our punditry, however, is done almost exclusively by white people and […]

 







Denying Patrick Kennedy Communion? Good For The Catholic Church.

Did you hear? A bishop denied Patrick Kennedy communion because of his abortion stance. My thought? It’s about time: A month of harsh words between Rep. Patrick Kennedy and a strident critic, Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin, escalated Sunday when the bishop acknowledged asking Kennedy not to receive Holy Communion because of the Democratic lawmaker’s […]

 

Q&A Friday #104: Imagining A Fight Scene Between Blade And Edward Cullen

Question: “Please describe, in detail, with dialouge, your version of a vampire fight between Blade and Edward Cullen.” — President_Friedman Edward Cullen: Hi! I like baseball and I sparkle! Can we be pals? Blade: Some motherf*cker’s always tryin’ to iceskate uphill. Edward Cullen: Did I mention I’m over 100 years old and I like to […]

 



Q&A Friday #104: Why Is ObamaCare So Bad If Social Security And Medicare Are So Great?

Question: “How would you answer Kristof’s “Wrong Side of History” piece in the 11/18 NYT? If Medicare, Social Security and similar past advances of the welfare state didn’t do us in, why should anyone believe this one (healthcare takeover) will be the one that kills our economy? Are we suffering from a “boy who cried […]

 




A Mini-Interview With Dick Armey

While I was at the Freedomworks event in Raleigh last week-end, I got an opportunity to interview former House Majority Leader and Freedomworks Chairman, Dick Armey. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of my interview with him. Should the official Republican Party stay out of primaries? You know, my general attitude is that everybody […]

 




B*tches And Man-Haters

As I was reading the lefty-blog, Feministing, I came across an utterly unremarkable post called “Notes from a b*tch…pondering what it all means….” There was nothing of interest in the post, but it did prompt me to ask: What the hell is up with certain women referring to themselves as “b*tches?” Really? I know that […]

 

The Job Bomb

The job market in our country is shockingly grim and getting worse: Think the worst is over? Wrong. Conditions in the U.S. labor markets are awful and worsening. While the official unemployment rate is already 10.2% and another 200,000 jobs were lost in October, when you include discouraged workers and partially employed workers the figure […]

 

Five Terrible Cruelties of Liberalism

“You will find that I am kind. Unlike the cruel Leonidas, who demanded that you stand…I require only that you kneel.” — King Xerxes, 300 Liberalism is an extraordinarily deceptive, ruinous and cruel ideology. That’s because liberalism comes, arms wide open, whispering sweet words of compassion and pity, even as it forcefully slams down a […]