For a long time, Bill Kristol, self-anointed “boss” of the Weekly Standard (for so his minions refer to him), has been my least favorite neocon. Billie Boy bears more responsibility than any other non-government official for the trillion-dollar tragedy known as “Operation Enduring Freedom”,1 better described as “Operation Enduring Disaster”, an unforced error that cost…
Author: Alan Vanneman
Oh, and there was also the whole Jew Joke thing
Okay, this one is a bit stale, but I guess I like putting “Jew Joke” in a headline. I was reading Dan Drezner’s 97% merciless takedown of Secretary of State Rex “Wife made me take the job” Tillerson,1 which included a sneer directed at major foreign policy advisors who, like Tillerson, had never met the…
Does “The Americans” hate America?
Okay, if you’re worried about plot spoilers, go read Mark Trail. For the remaining few, here’s the deal. In the latest episode of The Americans, our guys (Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys as deep cover Soviet spies Elizabeth and Philip Jennings) uncover a nefarious mid-eighties plot to infest U.S. grain sold to the Soviets with…
Shorter Krauthammer: Trump has been president for two whole months and hasn’t destroyed the country, so shut up already!
That’s the word from the K-Man, writing in the National Review. See, it doesn’t matter that our chief executive, the heir to Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and (I guess) Ronald Reagan, is an ignorant, unscrupulous, vengeful sociopath, a Huey Long with an outer-borough accent. We have two whole other branches of government as well….
Richard Cohen, correctly raining on Stephen Bannon’s parade
Richard Cohen, who very often gives a very convincing impression of a 2,000 year old man—and not a very nice one, either—nonetheless still has a trick or two up his sleeve and delivers a nice one here, taking down White House evil genius in chief and all-around prick Stephen Bannon’s account of his spiritual awakening…
Yo, Frank Rich! Want to beat Trump! REPEAL RENT CONTROL!
New York’s Frank Rich has an always hilarious and frequently accurate takedown of what Manhattanite Frank deems “Hillbilly Chic”, the new fashion for feeling the pain of the OxyContin-poppin’ white trash who supposedly put Donald Trump in the White House. As Frank shrewdly points out, if Hillary hadn’t pocketed over $21 million in speaking fees…
Maybe it’s because they’re REPUBLICANS, Avik?
Avik Roy, a conservative health care expert who’s finding it harder and harder to be “conservative”, struggles with Lyin’ Paulie Ryan’s latest wrinkle to the Health Care bill that he and Donald Trump are trying to “ram” through the House of Representatives. The original bill had sort of a problem, noted by ethical gal around…
Lonnie Jordan WARtet—“Well You Needn’t”
“Mr. Duran,” a seeming resident of an early fifties time warp, presents “The Lonnie Jordan WARtet” on WAR (probably a TV station in San Gabriel, LA County, CA). Piano – Lonnie Jordan; Drums – Sal Rodriguez; Bass – Francisco “Pancho” Tomaselli; Sax – David Urquidi. Posted by MRDURANdotcom
If you like your insurance you can keep it. Not! And the mystery deepens
Surely you remember, a couple of years ago, when President Obama’s blithe promise, “If you like your insurance, you can keep it”, was given four Pinocchios, or three enchiladas, or whatever, and labeled and ridiculed as the “Lie of the Year”. Well, I’ve been reading Steven Brill’s book, America’s Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals,…
That’s because they’re REPUBLICANS, Mona
Mona Charen, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a contributor to the National Review, has a problem, almost an ethical problem, one might say. Writing in the Review regarding Lyin’ Paulie Ryan’s House Speaker Paul Ryan’s plans to repeal and replace Obamacare, Mona says “… compared to the current law [i.e.,…