Lowry writes about the Anti-Fact Consensus at NRO: Obama spokesmen now say everyone knew that President Bush’s troop surge would create more security. This is blatantly false. Obama said in early 2007 that nothing in the surge plan would “make a significant dent in the sectarian violence,” and the new strategy would “not prove to be one that changes the dynamics significantly.” He referred to the surge derisively as “baby-sit(ting)

Today’s New York Times follows up on yeterday’s kerfuffle over the New Yorker cover satirizing various attacks on Barack and Michelle Obama by noticing the near total lack of jokes about Barack Obama on  television: Comedy has been no easier for the phalanx of late-night television hosts who depend on skewering political leaders for a healthy quotient of their nightly monologues. Jay Leno, David Letterman, Conan O’Brien and others have delivered a nightly

Normally, I would not mention that today is my Dad’s birthday. After all, I am a guest-blogger here. Plus, this blog is a case study as to the benefits of keeping family out of it. However, the event is a convenient excuse to mention that since I started guest-blogging here in earnest, my Dad has become a pw reader.  It is the only real blog he reads, but he particulalrly