— Even after admitting that 1) most Native Americans weren’t bothered by the name of the DC football team in the slightest, and 2) that those who use the name now naturally don’t intend it as a slur –a fact made all the more clear in that it is, when coupled with “Washington”, a referent that attaches itself to the professional football team, not to the Trail of Tears or

Billy Joel:  “A bottle of red.  A bottle of white.  What ever kind of mood you’re in tonight — ” Barack Obama:  “Why not both?  Hell, make it two.  Or 4!   Just make sure you put it on a credit card.  Because you don’t have to pay those things back — and even if some Fat Cat Banker tries to make you, just give me a ring and I’ll

Nice piece by Kurt Schlichter that reiterates what we’ve all been noting here:  it’s always those who decry the right as “eliminationists” who turn out to really seem to toy with idea, be it Ayers and his Prairie Fire crew of domestic terrorists (now comfy tenured profs with Obama’s eternal gratitude and an invitation to appear on “The Morning Joe”), or progressive hacks like David Plouffe and the bizarrely manic

From the WaPo, the very paper Sargent writes for: One of the nation’s top credit-rating agencies says that the U.S. Treasury Department is likely to continue paying interest on the government’s debt even if Congress fails to lift the limit on borrowing next week, preserving the nation’s sterling AAA credit rating. In a memo being circulated on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Moody’s Investors Service offers “answers to frequently asked questions” about

In a back and forth with WaPo’s Greg Sargent this morning — and with several self-styled conservatives on Twitter last evening (one of whom has, predictably, threatened to block me, ostensibly for violating some Twitter rule I care little about, but mostly because I’ve been pointing out his sneering, brash, almost adamant calls for surrender) — I’ve been pointing to a piece in Forbes by Jeff Dorfman that underscores the