Gee, I sure HOPE the launch of a long-range NORK missile doesn’t CHANGE plans to cut $1-$2 billion in missile defense funds tomorrow… — Although I suppose in a pinch, ACORN volunteers could be dispatched to hector a warhead out of the sky, and if that doesn’t work, President Obama can simply sign something outlawing war and violence — hell, maybe even arrogance — altogether. He has that kind of

Are you among those salivating hickmonkeys rushing to join the angry ideological fringe? Or are you, per David Frum, after “facts and reason and knowledge” (evinced, for instance, in arguments wherein we’re told — “factually” and “reasonably” and “knowledgeably” — that Rush Limbaugh as a person embodies all that is wrong with conservatism, from his cigars to his weight to his drug addiction)? If you are the former, do know

AFP: Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev hailed Barack Obama as “my new comrade” Thursday after their first face-to-face talks, saying the US president “can listen” — even if little progress was made on substance. The Russian president contrasted Obama as “totally different” to his predecessor George W. Bush, whom he blamed for the “mistake” of US missile shield plans fiercely opposed by Moscow. Yeah. That whole “peace through strength”-thing proved something of

Giuliani once practically spit in the face of a presumptuous Saudi Prince. Our President? He fucking bowed. He bowed to religious intolerance. He bowed to misogyny. He bowed to anti-semitism. He bowed to homophobia. In short, he surrendered our country’s ideals, offering up our principles for sacrifice on the altar of Otherness — behaving much as the Brits’ royal class and the continental elites have long behaved, favoring the sumptuous

nobody’s right, if everybody’s wrong young people speakin’ their minds gettin’ so much resistance from behind… *

An Obama task force primer.

Hope! Change! From the AP: President Barack Obama has chosen Robert M. Groves to be the next census director, turning to a professor who has clashed with Republicans over the use of statistical sampling to lead the high-stakes head count. The White House will announce the selection of Groves on Thursday, a Commerce Department official told The Associated Press. The official demanded anonymity because the individual was not authorized to

Meh. So long as they have the good grace to use a green-friendly fuel, what’s the big deal? I mean, we have missiles, yes? Why shouldn’t other countries have them? To level the playing field? BECAUSE OF THE EGALITARIANISM?: The fueling signals that the country could be in the final stages of what North Korea has said will be the launch of a satellite into space as early as this

Just in case you missed it the first time: an activist media that is granted the presumption of “objectivity” and then uses that pretense of objectivity as a shield to advocate for — and, worse, to protect — a given political ideology and its agenda, is a corrupting influence in a democratic republic. And like it or not, most people still get their news from those who have the power

CBS News: Days after GM’s CEO Rick Wagoner was forced out by the Obama administration, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner left open the possibility that such moves could happen again. In an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric, Geithner acknowledged the government has had to do “exceptional things” – citing AIG as well as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. “We have changed management aboard,” he said. “And where we’ve