Month: February 2015

The Mexican Restaurant Basement Crowd

Quotes like this don’t come along every day: “I prefer to be in the arena voting than trying to placate a small group of phony conservative members who have no credible policy proposals and no political strategy to...

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Stupid Thread

I have to go do more family-related chores, so why don’t you tell me the stupidest thing that’s happened at CPAC? I know the competition is stiff.

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J’Accuse! [Update #2]

On the simplistic left-right, political spectrum, every good USian knows that communism is on the far left.  Anti-capitalism.  The Soviet Union and Russia today equals communism regardless of how little or poorly...

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Serious Question

Did you get a chance to read my book review in the current issue of the Washington Monthly? No? That’s okay. I’ll wait.

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You’re Not Half Crazy Enough

Sometimes, Steve M. can be very concise, which is a nice skill to have as a writer and an analyst. In this case, what struck me was how efficient he was in explaining the basic problem with the right-wing model of stoking...

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