Month: March 2014

Glenn Thrush has written a good-quality profile of Joe Biden and his presidential aspirations for Politico Magazine. The article starts out quite strong and peters out a bit, which I blame on whoever edited the piece. Thrush...

Remember how elegantly John McCain handled the fiscal meltdown in September 2008. Remember how he suspended his campaign and tried to cancel a debate so that everyone could convene at the White House? Remember how he had...

I’d feel worse about being from New Jersey if it weren’t for Louisiana.

Who do you call when someone hijacks your commercial oil tanker? The United States, of course: A United States Navy SEAL team took control of an oil tanker in waters near Cyprus on Monday. The tanker had been hijacked by armed...

In a comment on Booman’s recent post Hamid Karzai Says America Can Go, centerfielddj continued this site’s ongoing knee-jerk, leftiness, anti-Paulist meme. He/she made the following reply to a joke I made about how...