Perhaps had Larry Summers chosen to wax poetic about his own socially constructed carnal victimization — a product of the hipster’s backlash against Eisenhower’s America, the longterm fallout of such liberation being that poor, confused Boomers have been reduced to oglers whose pleat-hidden chubbies mirror both their shame and their longing, a conflict of social enlightenment manifest in the ostensible intellectual desire to de-objectify women pitted against carefully constructed capitalist

If you thought we “conservatives” were bad, wait’ll you get a load of the libertarian complaints with respect to the SCHIP program. Here, for instance, is Jacob Sullum, writing in Reason: As “a conservative who wants to help restore the limited federal government envisioned in the Constitution,” Rep. Roscoe Bartlett said, he could not in good conscience vote to override President Bush’s veto of a bill boosting federal spending on

to observe how the left wing of the intartubes treats kiddies whose parents back views they don’t like:  Sarah Maria Santorum’s tears inspire song This is the story of a defeated senator, his crying daughter, a Nashville songwriter and Martina McBride, the country music star. It begins in Pittsburgh on election night 2006. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), losing to Democrat Robert P. Casey Jr. by a wide margin, gathered his

Forces spare Afghan civilians: Coalition forces in Afghanistan are being trained to avoid civilian casualties even if that means sometimes refusing to respond to direct attacks, a senior officer said. The careful approach is part of a broad counterinsurgency program, which U.S. commanders said has begun to yield information from a fearful population about the locations of Taliban forces and improvised explosive devices. “My guys have been shot at right

From the Washington Post: The U.S. military believes it has dealt devastating and perhaps irreversible blows to al-Qaeda in Iraq in recent months, leading some generals to advocate a declaration of victory over the group, which the Bush administration has long described as the most lethal U.S. adversary in Iraq. But as the White House and its military commanders plan the next phase of the war, other officials have cautioned

Yeah, I realize I’m several days behind on this, but just in case you hadn’t seen it, here’s some rain for the Al Gore Nobel Peace Prize parade — courtesy of the West Australian. And, like, carbon blankets, probably: A conservative think-tank in New Zealand has written to the president of the America’s Academy Awards asking that the Oscar awarded to the director of an Inconvenient Truth be taken back.

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21 wins in 22 games. 7-0 in the playoffs. The Colorado Rockies — that’s right, the Colorado Rockies — are going to the World Series. Not having any Champagne on hand, I just poured a mixture of baking soda and vinegar over my head, and thanked all my fans for their support. Life is best when lived vicariously through the accomplishments of others, don’t you think? Anyway, congrats to the

From the Baltimore Sun, of all places — a paper that I suspect just made Keith Olbermann’s list of “Worst Newspapers In the World” — here’s Grace-Marie Turner, founder and president of the Galen Institute, a free-market-oriented health policy research organization that I suspect just made the list of Keith Olbermann’s “Worst Free-Market-Oriented Health Policy Research Organization in the World”: Is President Bush a liar who hates children? That’s what