Get Used to It. Article by Gateway favorite Fareed Zakaria Subtitle: How to Live With It I’ll tell you how I intend to live with it: the same way radical Islam lives with gays and apostates. **** Jeff update: The media is preparing us for attacks that they’ll tell us were “inevitable.” That they didn’t happen after 911 under Bush will be proof of Bush’s policy of torture. That they’ll

Not that he’s ever really got his OUTLAW off. I could excerpt, but there’s no point, really, when you ought to read the whole thing. In related news, Dan Riehl calls out Jeff. And Obama internationalizes Republican media policy through unilateral disarmament. ***** Jeff update: Steele is wrong. And Ace is wrong for defending him. Until we understand how important it is to hold linguistic ground, we are destined to

What a noob: Attacking Rush, Continued [Guy Benson] Last month I noted a synchronized verbal assault launched against Rush Limbaugh by so-called political analysts Paul Begala and James Carville. They were feverishly making the case that Rush is the de facto leader of the Republican party, and repeated this talking point as often as possible. At the time, I theorized these attacks were no coincidence; likely hatched during the daily

Leaders of the Senate Finance Committee this afternoon revealed that another of President Obama’s nominees — U.S. Trade Representative-designate Ron Kirk — has tax problems. Finance staff briefed aides to committee members today on the revelations, which indicate the former Dallas mayor underpaid taxes to the tune of $9,975 during 2005-07, and that he has agreed to promptly file adjustments. The underpayments deal in part with speaking honoraria he received

I think I may have mentioned that I rarely listen to Rush Limbaugh, unless I’m on the road and there’s nothing else, but I may have to start listening. I say that, because I’m wondering if this nipple-headed jackdaw could possibly have made me regret supporting him any more quickly than he has: HUGHLEY: You know what we do, we talk like we’re talking now. You have your view. I

Stocks fell worldwide, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average below 7,000 for the first time since 1997, and Treasuries rose after Warren Buffett said the economy is in “shambles” and American International Group Inc. reported a $61.7 billion loss. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. retreated 5.9 percent after reporting the worst annual drop in book value since Buffett took control in 1965. HSBC Holdings Plc sank 19 percent after announcing a rights

Moe Lane: NAME! THAT! PARTY! “Troubled.” How droll. It’s Pete Visclosky (D, IN-01), by the way. I repeat it because the AP can’t seem to. Visclosky’s ties to troubled PMA Group run deep. WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. Rep. Pete Visclosky has promised to return money from donors with ties to a troubled lobbying group, but critics say his ties to PMA Group run deep. The northwest Indiana congressman’s former chief

James Joyner deems the Tea Party Movement bizarre, noting that a bunch of Congressional Perps are up for re-election in 2010. What are people supposed to do till then? Suck it up? Astroturf? Why it simply won’t do to demonstrate our anger at the socialization of America in the meanwhile, by whatever means we have at our disposal, is a subject that James doesn’t broach in this post. What makes