Progressives and liberals are despondent lately. They’re having trouble mustering up the energy to vote in 2010, or even to defend Barack Obama, once their shining star: Why, asks a Democrat leading a training session for fellow activists, doesn’t “Yes … Continue reading →
Chatty humanesque self-deprecating spambot: Ooh shoot i just wrote a large comment and as soon as i hit reply it came up blank! Please tell me it worked correct? I dont want to upload it again if i don’t have … Continue reading →
…it does.
Continue reading →…that Facebook and Twitter and all that internet stuff constitutes a public record? Tim Horrigan, the second New Hampshire state public figure in the Democratic Party to publicly joke about Sarah Palin dying in a plane crash, has tendered his … Continue reading →
…with the vacations.
Continue reading →The following is quite a comment, gleaned from a thread at the New Republic, and written by “12alainu.” I highlight it here because it is a good example of the persistence on the left of the reductionist racialist explanation for … Continue reading →
Douglas Murray doesn’t think so.
Continue reading →I notice that Robert Gibbs hasn’t done the full mea culpa for his criticism of the “professional left” the other day. In his latest encounter with the press, he lets us know why: “[Q]What do you say to progressives who, … Continue reading →
Is anyone else annoyed by the recurrent newish phrase “baby bump” to refer to a pregnancy, especially involving a celebrity starlet? Having been pregnant, I have to say it’s a lot more than a bump. And the phrase “baby bump” … Continue reading →
I’d like to tackle this question raised by a commenter at the law blog Volokh: …[H]ow is opposing legalization of same-sex marriage today different from opposing the legalization of interracial marriage back [in the 1960s in the Loving vs Virginia … Continue reading →
August 6th was the 65th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and I recycled this piece for the occasion. It ended with these words: It’s much harder to convince a WWII vet that Hiroshima was an … Continue reading →
…when it’s considered worthy of note that a primary candidate endorsed by the president of the United States actually manages to win the primary.
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