The Socialist Party Debate

There's one candidate on-stage in New Hampshire who believes that the free market – the real, honest-to-God free market, sans subsidies and global military intervention – should determine the price of energy resources. Guess who. UPDATE: That godd**n fool John...

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Dem Debate: The Only Question That Matters

Whom to despise most? Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, Bill Richardson, the talking heads, or the whimpering audience of welfare-warfare half-wits? My mind changes as each opens his or her mouth. UPDATE: Holy sh*t, Joe Biden just...

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Maybe He Should Visit That Library

Via Michael Ledeen's blog, I see that the look-how-many-Iraqi-potholes-we've-filled meme lives on in the pro-war blogosphere, long after even Arthur Chrenkoff quit, um, "Chrenkin' off": Glenn Reynolds has an email from Michael Yon, the great milblogger and...

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Two From YouTube

First, Ron Paul on Bill Maher's show. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEkjPkXHSEw[/youtube] While Maher deserves props for giving Paul a chance to make his case, he doesn't seem to get Paul's fundamental point. Yes, Bush's response to 9/11 has been horrible,...

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Neocon Slams War on Drugs

In Iran. Surely you didn't think Michael Ledeen would rile up his yahoo readers by dissing America the virtuous, did you? Naw, Michael's been wavin' the Stars & Stripes, drinkin' Gallo, and dancin' to John Philip Sousa over there in Italy. Ain't nothin' wrong with the...

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Barbarism Begins at Home

A U.S. soldier in Afghanistan describes his work: Yes . . . F---ING Yes!!! I LOVE MY JOB, it takes everything reckless and deviant and heathenistic and just overall bad about me and hyper focuses these traits into my job of running around this horrid place doing nasty...

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Suggestion for Future Republican Debates

Clearly, there are too many candidates to give all of the different points of view a fair hearing. What to do? I suggest two podiums. Behind podium one, Ron Paul; behind podium two, the other nine, in an orderly, grade-school water-fountain line. After each question...

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