Conservative Bloggers Are More Critical And Fair-Minded
When a tasty news item confirming one’s own prejudices and assumptions and wreaking injury upon one’s political adversaries comes along, it is only natural that the partisan blogger will seize upon it...
View Article“Tough Budget Cuts”
Doug Ross illustrated the magnitude of President Obama’s “tough budget cuts” Since there was no hope of your seeing them in the initial chart, he then offered a 10x magnified close-up President...
View ArticleDemotions on the Left
When the American left needs to vent its rage at its reactionary opposition at the loudest volume and in the shrillest tones, when anything resembling rational debate simply will not do, when it’s time...
View ArticleMetaphorical Speech Crime
If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I dunno what yâ€all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas. What do you do when you’re supporting a duck...
View ArticleAndrew Sullivan On Blogging
I don’t agree much with Andrew Sullivan on politics these days (but, with Andrew’s record of instability, that may simply mean I only need to wait awhile until he becomes conservative again), yet I...
View ArticleAndrew Sullivan’s Is Playing His Own Game
Andrew Sullivan prefaces his recent Newsweek article offering an unusually optimistic assessment of the current president’s prospects and achievements by confessing: I write this as an unabashed...
View ArticleForever Obnoxious
The stupid, backward, and sexually inadequate residents of China and Vietnam suffer from a delusion that consuming the horn of the rhinoceros (black or white) will increase, or restore, their potency....
View Article“What Is Best in Life?
What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women! –Conan the Barbarian Yesterday, we got to listen to the delightfully loud...
View ArticleMilitary Award Proliferation: US Army Versus Communist China
David Petraeus wore regularly a lot more awards than Dwight Eisenhower did many years ago. Marines have long remarked humorously on the proliferation of awards, badges, and decorations worn by members...
View Article“Your Purring Little Murderer”
Sullyblog recently found itself another humanitarian crusade to climb on board. Bad enough our letting the Bush Administration roughly handle jihadi terrorists (Torture!). On top of that, we allow...
View ArticleCompromise Not Possible With Gun Controllers
Andrew Sullivan quotes readers of his Dish to produce a somewhat disingenuous on-the-one-hand and on-the-other-hand summary of the gun control debate. Reader 2 (the token pro-gun guy) is “a...
View ArticleAndrew Sullivan’s Blizzard of Lies, I
When former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had the temerity to criticize the leadership of the chosen one for failing to secure a Status of Forces agreement, i.e. an official grant of permission...
View ArticleEven Some Lefties Are Outraged by Mozilla CEO’s Ouster for Thought-Crime
Mozilla to Brendan Eich: “But don’t do it here!” New York Times: In Silicon Valley, where personal quirks and even antisocial personalities are tolerated as long as you are building new products and...
View ArticleElites, Having Gotten Their Way, Condescendingly Propose Tolerating Dissent
Same Sex Marriage, in the typical way culture war victories are won, is on the way to becoming the law of the land by the well-worn route of advocacy by a left-wing avante-garde, followed by...
View ArticleA Journalistic Lynch Mob Goes After an Order of Nursing Nuns
A former workhouse built in the 1840s, later the Mother/Baby Home in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland At the beginning of this month, a story based upon nothing but old news and unsupported allegations...
View ArticleThe Best Death
Responding to Ezekiel Emanuel’s “I Want to Die at 75” Atlantic essay, Andrew Sullivan wonders: What Is the Best Way to Die? John Buchan did an excellent job, I think, of describing the best possible...
View ArticleAndrew Sullivan’s Foreign Policy
Andrew Sullivan Andrew Sullivan (who has never been a US citizen, and who has escaped criminal conviction and consequent deportation only through blat), nonetheless, editorializes about Americans in...
View ArticleSullydish Readers Defend Rand
Andrew the Illegal Immigrant, like many other people, blogged about the recently-gone-viral letter from Ayn Rand to her niece who wanted a loan, but (being a Rand villain) Andrew described Rand’s...
View ArticleAndrew Sullivan Retires (Again)
On Wednesday afternoon, Andrew Sullivan suddenly announced that “in the near future,” he is going to quit blogging. Why? Two reasons. The first is one I hope anyone can understand: although it has...
View ArticleAndrew Sullivan: “Blogging Nearly Killed Me!”
Poor Andrew quit, he tells us, because grossing seven figures a year while being his own boss was so terrible a burden that it was not worth it. CNN Money: “The truth is, I had to stop primarily...
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