Everything old is new again. And again.
January 2, 2012
January 2, 2012
January fundraiser begins today [sticky; new posts below; THURSDAY UPDATE]
For those of you who made it one of your New Year’s resolutions to support this site with that bit of disposable income you might otherwise spend on Subway meal deals or twelve packs of faddish, extra-hoppy IPAs — and I imagine that numbers in the hundreds of thousands of you — consider this post my gift to you all. Don’t mention it. Thursday update: Thanks to all of you
January 2, 2012
“Seriously Iowa? Ron Paul?”
Marc Thiessen: Rep. Ron Paul is in a dead heat with Mitt Romney for first place in the Iowa caucuses. If he does pull out a win on Tuesday, Iowa Republicans will have chosen as their commander in chief a man who says it was wrong to kill Osama bin Laden. In a recent interview with a Des Moines radio station, Paul not only came out against killing bin Laden
January 2, 2012
“The Spenders Won 2011”
What? You got a problem with that, Hobbits? Amid this month’s payroll tax fracas, few noticed that Congress passed a 1,200-page, $1 trillion omnibus spending bill for fiscal 2012. Maybe no one in Washington boasted because it’s a victory for spending as usual. Republicans—in the House and Senate—need a better strategy. The news is that after accounting for last-minute unemployment insurance extensions, “emergency” spending and higher Medicare physician payments, total
January 2, 2012
Former teen idol Leif Garrett comments on the GOP’s internecine battles, where “conservative purists” are cast as extremists while party “moderates,” many of them pre-911 Democrats, are cast as “sane” and “sober” conservatives
“The kinds of people who think Lindsay Lohan is a Hollywood ‘bad girl’ evidently weren’t paying attention when me, Barry Williams, and Mike Lookinland would snort coke off of Rob Reed’s bare chest, then use the set of the Brady kitchen to run trains on Florence Henderson and, if we could loosen her up with enough tequila, a suddenly very adventurous Eve Plum.”
January 2, 2012
Going all in before they go down [guest post by motionview]
How many lies can you fit into a single NY Times lead sentence?. Europe’s leaders braced their nations for a turbulent year, with their beleaguered economies facing a threat on two fronts: widening deficits that force more borrowing but increasing austerity measures that put growth further out of reach. Note the martial language, economies are beleaguered, they are facing a threat. Threats. The problem is that deficits are widening you