Month: March 2013

Casual Observation

The Republicans are doubling down on the Ryan Budget in order to change the narrative because the status quo isn’t working for them? This is supposed to make sense in this or any alternative universe? I guess I will never...

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Dick Morris Gives Advice

Dick Morris has become famous for always being wrong. I’d argue that part of the reason for this is that he hasn’t often attempted to be right. His prognostications and predictions have been part pep-rally (bucking...

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Ed Schultz Fills an Important Niche

I have this very vague recollection of a point in time when I read a comment on some blog, probably Daily Kos, where a progressive was praising Ed Schultz, and I had a moment of cognitive dissonance because I thought Ed Schultz...

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President Talks to Crazy Brick Wall

President Obama went down to Capitol Hill yesterday to meet with House Republicans and was immediately barraged by their non-factual universe. To wit: Rep. James Lankford (R-Okla.) — the Republican Policy Committee chairman —...

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Habemus Papam

The people who read the National Review typically see a Jesuit, particularly from Latin America, as the second coming of Daniel Ortega and Hugo Chavez, so they are in need of reassurance that Pope Francis I didn’t choose...

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