Matthew Franck, Bench Memos: It’s a trifecta in [Thursday’s] Washington Post by Ronald M. Green, who proposes a “Stem Cell Solution” for president-elect Obama. Green wants the incoming administration to change federal policy on funding for embryonic stem cell research (ESCR)—but he’d like to cloak the first step of a radical change in moderate clothing. I know this isn’t ordinary Bench Memos fare, but bear with me. (And the connection

From George Will (who, for irony’s sake, let me point out spent a month or so sniffing at the only remotely conservative nominee on either major party ticket): Conservatism’s current intellectual chaos reverberated in the Republican ticket’s end-of-campaign crescendo of surreal warnings that big government — verily, “socialism” — would impend were Democrats elected. John McCain and Sarah Palin experienced this epiphany when Barack Obama told a Toledo plumber that

Let the backscratching continue apace. I say Obama just goes ahead and commutes Tony Rezko’s sentence and names him HUD chief. I mean, if we’re going for Kafkaesque anyway, may as well go full out, right?

“Can you believe this, man? Finally — the Movement, with its message of fighting violence with violence in the name of non-violence, has taken control of the bourgeois capitalist system. A new day is dawning, Billy. And you, my half-breed brother, a walking, breathing, turquoise wearing symbol of the duality of oppressor/oppressed whose inner turmoil is manifest in spinning high kicks and a message of ‘peace on earth,’ would make

CNN: South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint on Friday became one of the first high-profile Republicans to publicly criticize John McCain following his electoral defeat, blaming the Arizona senator for betraying conservative principles in his quest for the White House. The conservative senator, speaking to a group of GOP officials gathered in Myrtle Beach at a conference on the future of the Republican Party, described how the party had strayed from

Bad Boy Billy joins The Man, peddles his book for profit on fluff news show, enabling the bourgeois capitalist system while reinforcing to the status quo! Wild, man! A long way from “Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.” I mean, you should probably still do all that, don’t get Billy wrong. It’s just

New York Times, “A Senior Fellow at the Institute of Nonexistence”: It was among the juicier post-election recriminations: Fox News Channel quoted an unnamed McCain campaign figure as saying that Sarah Palin did not know that Africa was a continent. Who would say such a thing? On Monday the answer popped up on a blog and popped out of the mouth of David Shuster, an MSNBC anchor. “Turns out it

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Dan thinks that beta-male blogger ought to look into this.

by six government agencies illegally investigating Joe the Plumber (American citizen guilty of sudden fame) for having had the audacity to ask an uncomfortable question of The One.