Changing Of The GOP Guard?
Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham are ripping Sen. Rand Paul over his filibuster. Excerpt: Graham also chided his fellow Republicans on the floor for joining Paul in his filibuster. “To my...
View ArticleJohn McCain, Gambling With War
PICTURE of McCain playing poker during Syria hearing is up http://t.co/Po0shWTqO9 pic.twitter.com/ejMzAAbh0E — E McMorris-Santoro (@EvanMcSan) September 3, 2013 It is so confidence-building to see the...
View ArticleCrazy Washington Calls The Rest Of Us Crazy
Heard the phrase “Iraq Syndrome” yet? It’s supposed to describe a mental disturbance in which people irrationally refuse to endorse an act of war against Syria because they see too many parallels with...
View ArticleThe Mideast Deluge
Things are going from bad to worse in the Middle East: But for all its echoes, the bloodshed that has engulfed Iraq, Lebanon and Syria in the past two weeks exposes something new and destabilizing: the...
View ArticleGates Criticism Makes Obama Wrong How?
From Greg Jaffe’s WaPo review of Robert Gates’ new memoir: He recounts his thoughts during a tense 2011 meeting with Obama and Gen. David H. Petraeus, then in charge of U.S. and NATO forces in...
View ArticleNuland Working To Overthrow Ukraine Government
Did you hear the audio of the phone call between Assistant US Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and the American ambassador to Ukraine? The Russians apparently recorded it, and leaked it. Here’s a...
View ArticleNo, Sen. McCain, We Are Americans
Quoting administration sources, the Washington Post reports that Russian troops have invaded Crimea, which is to say, sovereign Ukraine territory. Excerpt: Earlier in the day, the new Ukrainian...
View ArticleThe ISIS Monster We And Our Friends Created
The proxies for Our Friends The Gulf Sunnis bring the joy of radical Islam to Iraq, according to a UN representative in Iraq: The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has begun to brutally enforce...
View ArticlePutin Told Us So
If John McCain dies and goes to hell, he will spend eternity in a phone booth with Justin Raimondo reading this Ishaan Tharoor column to him. Excerpt: What a difference a year makes. Around this time...
View ArticleCruz, Conservatism & Christianity
Kudos to @TedCruz for his strong comments in support of #Israel! http://t.co/ys5TDQWzk6 — John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) September 12, 2014 Ross Douthat says what needs saying, and needs saying over and...
View ArticleOur Wild Man In Williamsburg
The New York Times found former Georgia president Mikheil Saakashvili, who mixed it up a few years back in a border war with Russia, lounging on the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He’s gotten fat,...
View ArticleThe Odious Donald Trump
I’ve been traveling all day, and was late to hear about the outrageous remark that boob Donald Trump made about John McCain. From the LA Times: “He’s not a war hero,” Trump said at the Family...
View ArticleThe Allure of Annihilation
As I said earlier, I’m hearing more and more from conservative friends that the whole damn system is rotten and needs to be blown up. A reader e-mails this morning: I was struck when reading the...
View ArticleWhy People Can’t Stand The Media, Chapter MDCCXVI
A CNN hagiographer reporter named Stephen Collinson actually wrote these words — not in an editorial, but in a straight news story. No, really, he did: In a Washington moment for the ages, Sen. John...
View ArticleAmerican Failure
After seven years of griping about Obamacare, the Republican Party finally failed to repudiate it. They hold both houses of Congress, and the presidency — but still, they failed. I don’t know that last...
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