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August 2011

August 25, 2011

In Defense of Bloomberg

With no clergy officiating, New York City's 9/11 anniversary ceremony is going to leave many...

August 17, 2011

Rick Perry and the Politics of Treating ’em Ugly

Even conservatives are coming down on brand-new presidential candidate Rick Perry for accusing Ben Bernanke...

August 15, 2011

Who Wouldn’t Want a Hapsburg?

Ib First Things, George Weigel calls Otto von Hapsburg, son of Austria-Hungary's last emperor, who...

August 09, 2011

Newsweek’s Cover: Not Sexist, Just a Slap

The cover of this week's Newsweek features Michele Bachmann. As many observers noted, it is...

August 08, 2011

America’s Financial Future: A Dirt Sandwich?

Today in Slate, William Saletan that our country's left-right ideological divode will soon be rendered...

August 02, 2011

Big Revolutionaries Don’t Cry

Of all the responses to Joe Biden's alleged comparison of Tea Party Republicans to terrorists,...

August 01, 2011

Obama’s Base Boos

Ross Douthat is a good sport. In today's column, he dissects President Obama's mistakes with...

July 2011

July 16, 2011

Why Michelle Bachmann is No Fun to Pick On

Sarah Palin spoiled the media. Or maybe it's more accurate to say she spoiled the...

July 14, 2011

Evangelical Lutherans: Pope is Antichrist, Okay Guy

In yesterday's Atlantic, Joshua Green reports that the Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church, which Michelle Bachmann...

July 12, 2011

No Homophobia? Okay. No Communism, Either

What do you do when both sides are tossing rhetorical bombs? Aside from ducking, the...

July 01, 2011

Pyx in the (Former) Sticks

Probably, this will fail to shock most of my readers, but....Christopher Hitchens doesn't seem to...

June 2011

June 30, 2011

Halperin Calls Prez You-Know-What

MSNBC's Mark Halperin drew an indefinite suspension for calling President Obama...well, something he hadn't oughta...

June 22, 2011

Corapi Resigns Alaska Governorship

"I'm not a quitter," insisted the bearded priest-turned talk-radio host in his famous stentorian basso....

June 16, 2011

Barack Obama: Bully and Cad?

Remember back when right-wing bloggers were terrifying each other, predicting that President Obama would build...

June 12, 2011

What do Phil Spector and Sarah Palin Have in Common?

They're both gun lovers who look good in heels? Well, yes, but less obviously, they've...

June 10, 2011

The Politics of Penis Shots

So help me, this country needs more sex scandals. Every time a famous man does...

June 08, 2011

Sex Tweets First Step to Tyranny?

According to the Times, "a small group of determined, self-described conservatives" must have thought so....

June 07, 2011

Weeping (A Little) for Weiner

I weep for Anthony Weiner -- not a big, blubbering flood of tears, mind you,...

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