Unqualified Offerings

The (obliviously) funniest report from Islamofascism Awareness Week – hereinafter, Ka’bah-ctoberfest – comes from Phyllis Chesler. Read the heh whole indeed thing.
Hat tip: Whisky Fire.

I was a little sheepish last year after I wrote in late September that Democratic acquiescence in the Military Commissions Act heralded functional one-party rule – this bold prediction preceding by about five weeks the famous results of the 2006 elections. Like all cowards, I left myself an out in the penultimate paragraph, but you’d [...]

By Thoreau
The President of Ecuador said that the US can only renew the lease on its base (due to expire in 2009) if they can build a base in Miami.  I’m tempted to go browse some wingnut blogs and see what they have to say about that.
Personally, I would have asked for a base in [...]

Blog title is an inside joke from a recent comment thread: sorry.
Last time I wrote about Glenn Beck, I made a qualified defense of his interviewing technique, but the rambling disquisition that ends with him divining the secret allegiances of rich-but-ash-blown Californians is just dumb and bizarre.

By Mona
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Captain Ed thinks Redstate’s Leon made a mistake in banning what Leon labels “zany” Ron Paul supporters because, insightfully notes the Captain:

There are worse impulses than libertarianism.

Why yes, I can think of a few “worse impulses!” Say, maybe, neoconservatives who pimp for yet more war-mongering and carnage, my emphasis:

[Gen. David Petraeus and [...]

Man, that was some of the worst dialog I ever heard, particularly early in the show. I was embarrassed to hear it, like the scriptwriters were letting me in on a horrible secret I’d rather not have known.

By Thoreau
I was thinking of putting up a post on the mechanics of Presidential elections in the next few days.  And maybe I still will, if I get the time.  (It will be a long post, with some nuanced points.)  But I’m realizing that it’s really a work of political fan-fic, postulating a world where [...]