News and politics

A great story about the lead-up to the current financial mess.Tip from Mahalanobis. Read more

Today’s lesson is from First Corinthians, 9:9: "For it is written in the law of Moses, thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?"  God, yes.  Congress and the President, not so much. Tip from the Parkway Rest Stop.  Scripture reference from BibleResources.org. Read more

James Carville is trying to drum up Democrat contributions by scaring the Dems with the bogey(wo)man of Sarah Palin. Oooh, scary. Personally, if I received mail from James Carville, I’d douse it in Clorox, burn it, and go take a 20-minute shower with carbolic soap. Read more

I suspect Justice Scalia is just  a Frank-ophobe. Tip from the Drudge Report. Read more

Check it out here. Tip from Flowing Data. Read more

Need I say more? Tip from the Parkway Rest Stop. Read more

Jeff Goldstein lets it all hang out Me, I say f*ck the drive-by media, and f*ck letting them frame what it is we say. And no, we don’t do that by carefully self-filtering. We do that by calling them on their dishonesty. You want to fight them on their terms. I’m arguing that to fight… Read more

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Never have I seen argumentum ad Hitlerum done so well:    Tip from James Hudnall. Update (5 March).  The Old School strikes back. "[M]otley middlebrow state college pretenders" indeed.  I resemble that remark. Read more

This is the kind of thing that makes me think Michael Steele isn’t ready for prime time.  Sorry, Mikey, no contributions from me until you guys convince me you’re not working for the other side. Tip from The Corner. Update (3 March).  Mark Steyn says it more eloquently than I ever could. Read more