Yes.  Harry Reid is a brave man.  A strong man.  A man who speaks his mind and is not afraid to tell a General to his face that he’s incompetent! Or maybe that’s not what he was saying at all.  Here’s Greg Sargent at TPM Cafe, schooling us on the importance of “context”: [Reid’s “incompetent” remark concerning General Pace] was in the context of a discussion of Alberto Gonzales and

oatmeal:  “Sure, I once spent an entire evening trying to get into Betty Crocker’s pants— who hasn’t?  Turns out she’s more into the Little Debbie snack cake type, though.  Which, there’s nothing wrong with that, of course—I just wish I’d known it before I blew $50 on top shelf margaritas and about a half-dozen Slippery Nipples, is all…”

The power of groupthink again asserts itself as the MSM frames the narrative on the latest quarterly report from the Pentagon. The Washington Post declares there has been “No Drop in Iraq Violence Seen Since Troop Buildup” in a strory by Anne Scott Tyson (who has been known to take dictation from antiwar groups): Three months into the new U.S. military strategy that has sent tens of thousands of additional

Turns out the explanation is pretty simple:  It hasn’t even fucking begun yet in earnest. The Reid Doctrine:  preemptively declaring defeat before allowing a military strategy to begin—all so that people calling themselves “Atrios” or “TRex” will like you. Statesmanship, Democrat-style! (h/t FA)

From Pajamas Media: To gauge the extent of the demise of Europe, look no further than the story of the male gorilla that escaped at a Rotterdam zoo last month. After managing to get over a moat, the 400-pound primate brutally attacked a woman who had been visiting the zoo regularly to see the animal. Because female gorillas establish prolonged eye contact when they want to mate, biologists concluded that

Sometimes a reader will send along something that is a post all in itself.  Like the following, for instance, from Gary Schamburg: So—my first look at the web this morning starts at the Drudge Report and the headlines . . . The Surge has failed and Reid calls military officer “incompetent.” And yes—WE, that’s ALL American citizens, should be mad as hell!  This past week, Sen Reid’s approval rating was

In her recent syndicated column, Marianne Means turned her jaundiced left-liberal attentions to potential GOP Presidential hopeful Fred Thompson, in the process, penning the quintessential “progressive” political opinion column—one filled with condescension, veiled and not-so-veiled cheap shots, falsehoods presented as established truth, and character attacks attributed to unnamed third-party sources. In short, it was precisely the kind of column that progressives like to write—one that leaves uninformed readers with misinformed,

Lots of my favorite blogs have been dropping off of the radar screen lately.  Wuzzadem has been, as I’m sure has been clear from my links, one of my favorite sites for a long, long time.  Lately, though, John’s output has drooped (though Mrs. R has done some excellent work), and he hasn’t added a single post to his faves in the sidebar since the classic Greenwald(s) He Said/He Said

Rasmussen: Just 20% of American voters want Congress to try and pass the immigration reform bill that failed in the Senate last week. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 51% would like their legislators to “take smaller steps towards reform” while 16% believe they should wait until next year. The survey was conducted on Monday and Tuesday night as the President was publicly attempting to rally support for