"Bush a four-letter word at CPAC"
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
one. For anyone with a child's understanding
of the Law of Cause and Effect, America hasn't
been attacked since 9/11 because Slate was
created by Michael Kinsley in 1996 and Timothy
Noah has been investigating this question ever
since he repudiated a Slate column he wrote in
2003, advocating the invasion of Iraq, in a Slate
column he wrote a year later, in 2004, admitting he
had been played the fool by Colin Powell and the
Bush Administration. Timothy is now producing
the fruit of his lengthy investigation--eight Slate
essays--which, hopefully, he will be able to
complete before Osama bin Laden emerges
from his cave and attacks America again.
been growing at a much faster pace than the computer
model of the George W. Bush Presidential Library at
Southern Methodist University. The Hall's director says
that the addition of yet another right wing to the existing
structure will be required in the not-too-distant future,
making it look more and more like the Ninth Circle of Hell.
Patrick Ruffini wants no part of 'The Joe-the-Plumberization
of the GOP'. Instead, he loves Newt Gingrich's "emphasis on
finding 80/20 issues and defining them in completely non-
finding 80/20 issues and defining them in completely non-
ideological terms"---'The Newtering of the GOP', in other words.
stick with me; it'll all become clearer at the
end. Yes, the Republican Party is a disaster;
it's ideology has become nihilistic. But if
enough people read my columns in the New
York Times and watch me hobnob with Mark
Shields on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,
I'll be able to lead my party and the American
people on the long and winding Nietzchean
road beyond nihilism."
Armstrong Williams, Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele,
Juan Williams, Clarence Thomas, Stephen Carter, Walter
Williams, Alan Keyes, and a handful of others. The list
isn't long, because, as American history makes clear,
conservatives didn't exactly free the slaves or release
African-Americans from the grasp of Jim Crow. But
now a Black conservative, Michael Steele, has become
the leader of the Southern White Wealthy Christian
Heterosexual Male Party. Yessir, wild and crazy is written
all over his face.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
the three stage progression in moral thinking from
pre-conventional thinking about punishments and
rewards, through conventional thinking about the
norms of friends and society, to post-conventional
thinking about universal rights and principles? Or
thinking about universal rights and principles? Or
shall we keep wasting our breath, Crossfire-style?"