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Category Archives: Political Commentary
Sheila Jackson Lee
Supergenius. Of course, this is the same one-woman micro-brain-trust who asked NASA if the Mars rovers would be able to see the Apollo landing site.
Our country (and space program) is in the very best of hands.
Repeal And The Deficit
Why the one won’t increase the other, despite the pathetic attempts at fiscal legerdemain by the left. And Yuval Levin versus Jonathan Chait. Levin, in a knockout.
Crime Scene Investigation
Cue opening credit sequence
THE WHO
BRAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHH!Fast-paced action montage of CSI team shaking test tubes, spellchecking, studying tea bags under microscope, arresting cactus
THE WHO
We won’t get fooled again!CSI Headquarters. Behind a two-way mirror, Krugman and Matthews watch as the suspect is interrogated by detectives Olbermann and Maddow.
OLBERMANN
Out with it, scumbag! Who are you working with? We know you’re hiding something – or somebody! At long last, have you no shame, sir?! Have you no decency?DREAMBRAIN
Riddle me this, Batman. Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? That’s for me to know, but what am I? Ha hah! Heee! Ho hee! Pbblltth!Olbermann jumps up angrily from chair, Maddow restrains him.
MADDOW
Look, pal. Olbermann here, he goes just a little crazy kookoo sometimes. You should see him when he goes full Special Commentary. But you can trust me. I’m your friend. I’ll take care of you, see? Here, have a nice hot cup of tea…Dreambrain knocks the tea from the table
DREAMBRAIN
You’re trying to control my grammar! I have a constitutional right to saxophones!MATTHEWS (on intercom)
Take five, detectives. His rightwing gibberish isn’t getting us anywhere.KRUGMAN
Have the results gotten back from the toxicology lab yet?MATTHEWS
Got ’em right here. Weed… acid… psilocybin… salvia… Red Bull… but so far a negative on tea. And transfats.
I don’t think it has as much potential as the other franchises.
Politically Incorrect
An article that the WaPo spiked because it describes the difference between Christianity and Islam. Hiding or ignoring the truth doesn’t make it go away.
America 2.0
Thoughts on a needed upgrade for the country, from Walter Russell Mead.
Airbrushing History
In search of Lee Harvey Oswald. Hey, airbrushing history, often wholesale, is what leftists do. Stalin was famous for it.
In Search Of A Conservative Space Policy
With the quarter-century anniversary of the Challenger loss coming up next week, my thoughts on where we’ve been, and where we go from here. Even though I’m not really a conservative, I hope that the essay will make sense to them. Because unlike many, I at least speak the language, particularly when properly edited.
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I would note that there are two companion pieces to this, by Jeff Foust and Bob Zubrin.
As If We Didn’t Have Enough Problems
Could California be hit by a superstorm?
The good news is that it would flush out Sacramento, our version of the Augean stables.
But it would be both Bush’s fault, and due to global warming. Or climate change. Or whatever.
Real Health Care
Some thoughts from Jim Pinkerton:
…every billionaire eventually discovers that vast wealth is little better than health insurance when it comes to securing good health. Wealth and health insurance are both forms of finance, and whether the plan is deluxe or bare-bones, finance is retrospective — after you get sick, people get paid to treat you. And yet what plutocrats — and all of us — really need is prospective, even preemptive, medical science, the kind that produces not just wellness plans, but actual vaccines and cures. The rich can afford the best doctors, and the plushest hospital suites, but if that scientific spadework isn’t done in advance, if the right cure doesn’t exist when it’s needed, it can’t be bought on short notice at any price. The polio vaccine, for example, took 17 years; genuinely effective treatments for AIDS took 15 years. Cures cannot be impulse purchases. They can’t be bid for on eBay, or even at Sotheby’s.
And the Democrats’ preferred policies will only make things worse. It’s mass murder, really. Or at least manslaughter. If I can be so uncivil.