Friday, April 21, 2017

TRUMP AS CIVICS TEACHER? UM, NO.

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I think The Atlantic 's Michelle Cottle is almost serious about this: Let the betting pools begin: What will be the next policy issue t...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

PALIN-PALOOZA IN THE WHITE HOUSE -- WHOSE IDEA WAS THAT? I HAVE A GUESS.

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I wasn't going to write about Sarah Palin, Ted Nugent, and Kid Rock at the White House -- by now I'm bored with all of them -- but ...

"BILL O'REILLY IS A CENTRIST" IS THE KIND OF RESULT YOU GET WHEN RIGHT-WINGERS DO SCIENCE

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You probably think the downfall of Bill O'Reilly was terrible for conservatism. Silly liberal! Breitbart's Joel Pollak wants you to...

THEY TOOK THE GUNS AWAY? ISN'T THAT SUPPOSED TO BE IMPOSSIBLE?

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The Washington Free Beacon reported this yesterday: Socialist Venezuelan Leader Steps Up Arming of Supporters After Outlawing, Confiscatin...
Wednesday, April 19, 2017

WITH NO HILLARY TO KICK AROUND, THE NEW YORK TIMES POLITICS DESK MAKES DO

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Hillary Clinton's not around anymore to act as an everyday punching bag, so how will New York Times politics writers stay in fighting t...

PALIN, BREITBART, AND FOX SEEM TO BE STRUGGLING WITH THE CONCEPT OF LINEAR TIME

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Breitbart's Ian Mason tells us today that Sarah Palin believes Elizabeth Warren stole her intellectual property: Exclusive–Sarah Palin...

MOTHER OF ALL FLOPS?

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I should be writing about Bill O'Reilly or the Georgia special election, but I want to draw your attention to this New York Times story...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017

HOW IS THE CONSERVATIVE MEDIA MAKING ITS READERS STUPIDER TODAY?

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The Huffington Post's Ryan Reilly reports on an uptick in the U.S. murder rate: The national murder rate rose again last year, with muc...

WHY DIDN'T CONSERVATIVES HATE BILL CLINTON FOR PLAYING GOLF?

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I think Shaun King is basically right about this: No President in American history has ever golfed more per week than Donald Trump. In his ...
Monday, April 17, 2017

TRUMP'S NUMBERS: UP OR DOWN? (ANSWER: BASICALLY DOWN.)

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A new Gallup poll says that Donald Trump's approval numbers are down since early February: President Donald Trump's image among Am...

NO, DONALD TRUMP IS NOT "THE KING OF COAL"

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Hi -- I'm back. I thought this was one of the best weekends ever for this blog. Yastreblyansky, Tom, Crank, thank you. This morning ...
Sunday, April 16, 2017

Take your tech and shove it!

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This is where all the trouble began Okay, before I begin, I need to confess.  More than a half century ago I turned in my press card...

Blogging Past Theocracy

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St. Conilius of Bologna, Briish Library Medieval, Add. 49622.,  via .  Just kidding. But the manuscript shelfmark is real. The tradit...

Happy Easter

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I guess it's Easter today, which I would have known for sure if my parents were alive, but that was a while ago now. For those of you wh...

Shocked--Shocked!--to Find Trump Likes Bombing Shit

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We still have 980-odd years left til the year 3000, but I'm confident that if we make it that long this will turn out to have been the s...