I understand it’s easy to get entrenched in positions and not want to let go or admit to any reservations when those positions are challenged head on, but shortening the argument I made at Hot Air until it is completely unrecognizable while at the same time presuming to speak forcefully against it should, in a perfect world, count as a self-defeating piece of performative irony. Part of the problem is,

You know who I don’t get? Albert Einstein. What’s with the hair, anyway, and that thing with his cousin? I consider myself a moderate intellectual. I’m turned on by intellectual pastimes like Trivial Pursuit. Don’t get me wrong, I like to guzzle a cold frosty every once in a while, like anybody else, but most evenings it’s tea. And the Discovery Channel, that is good stuff right there, and all

Meghan McCain weighed in yesterday on the subject of Ann Coulter, and it’s a doozy.  The pull quote: I straight up don’t understand this woman or her popularity. I find her offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing all at the same time. Oh, my.  You aren’t a very smart woman, are you?  Actually, there are two reasonable interpretations here.  One is that you really are dumb as a box of rocks, and

Byron York: I’ve just learned that a group of Republican lawmakers plans to introduce a second stimulus bill, which they call the “No Cost Stimulus Act of 2009.” Members of the group, whose leaders include Rep. John Shadegg in the House and Sen. David Vitter in the Senate, have tried to come up with a plan that, in their estimation, would create two million new jobs, reduce the cost of