It is a truism among big-time journalists that you always sell the same piece three times. It is a fact of human nature that we enjoy pissing on our enemies. And it is thus a double pleasure for me to take another poke at one of my favorite hypocrites, Charles Krauthammer. Charles Krauthammer is not…
Author: Alan Vanneman
Michael V. Hayden seriously full of it, says Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Never piss off a United States senator. There once was no greater advocate of the “War on Terror” than California Senator Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee until the Republicans took over in 2014. But the CIA, in a classic case of compulsive over-reaching, tried to strong-arm her and her committee, turning a…
Ted Cruz, the current ninny and future king
In two recent postings, here and here, Ross Douthat concludes that the Republican Party as we know it will soon no longer exist. “There is now no possibility that the Republican Party will survive its rendezvous with Donald Trump unbroken.” Which means that on Inauguration Day, January 20, 2017, there will be two Democratic presidents…
Why is Bernie Sanders popular with college students? Because Bernie Sanders is a college student!
Think about it: What does Bernie promise the kids? Vote for me, and you’ll be able to spend your life doing cool stuff—saving the planet!—and other people will pay for it! Just what you’re doing now! Or at least, were doing, until you graduated and had to, you know, work for a living! Sounds entrancing,…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Yeah, I was once as you are. And as I am you will be. Makes you think, doesn’t it?” “You 3-D types are a joke! What’s the point in having volume when you lack breadth?” “Hey, don’t mind me! I’m invisible!” “Yeah, he who falls on this stone will…
Victor Davis Hanson is God!
Well, he thinks so, because he has just handed down “Ten Commandments for Our Next Commander-in-Chief” of which it can be said that they are not as tedious as they might be, if only because they do not begin with “Thou shalt not”. Otherwise, they simply amount to “Be a Churchill, not an Obama”, though,…
Emmanuel Manos Saridakis Trio—“Brilliant Corners”
Emmanuel on piano, Vasilis Podaras, drums, and Ntinos Manos, bass, with special guests Takis Paterelis, tenor and Manos Theodosakis, cornet. Posted by Emmanuel Manos Saridakis
John Podhoretz, half right on Trump—okay, make that a quarter
Over at Commentary, definitely not one of my fave rave’s, Editor John Podhoretz has “A New Theory of Trump”, taking another crack at explaining the Donald. Podhoretz’s argument is stated rather elliptically—or perhaps obliquely—but what he’s getting at, basically, is that George W. Bush got a lot of things wrong, but Republicans were so obsessed…
William F. Buckley, still racist after all those years
As is (fairly) well known, back in 1957, William F. Buckley wrote the following: “The central question that emerges…is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas where it does not predominate numerically? The sobering answer is Yes—the White community…
Just when you were thinking that Ted Cruz was maybe not totally shitty
Well, you knew you were a fool, didn’t you? Over at New York magazine, Eric Levitz has the totally shitty news of Ted’s new totally shitty foreign policy advisors, starting off with Frank Gaffney, a guy who thinks Obama is a Muslim, along with convicted criminal Elliott Abrams,1 and, well, others. Abrams avoided felony indictments…