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"Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
-- George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

Sunday, December 17, 2006

The McCain Mutiny

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If John McCain had won the Republican primary in 2000, I probably would have voted for him. I think quite a few "independents" and...
Saturday, December 16, 2006

Bonus Plan

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If I were some hacky financial reporter oohing and aahing over the doings of suited swells (and for all you know, I am ), I'd headline t...

Wingnut Welfare Queens

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John Miller headlines a post with the question that burns hotter than Dick Cheney's hemorrhoids: How Effective is Conservative Philanth...

Doubling Down

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Something else I found interesting from the very end of Froomkin's Friday column was this little bit about Bush's sleep habits, whi...
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Snow Balls

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Via Froomkin we see an interesting little rhetorical turnaround at one of Tony Snow's daily circle-jerks , aka the White House press co...
Friday, December 15, 2006

The End Of An Error

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Today is Rummy's last day , and what better way to send the old buzzard off to his vacation pad in Santo Domingo than to go through the...
Thursday, December 14, 2006

A Modest Pantloadal

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Please, o great and omniscient Flying Spaghetti Monster, please for the love of You give us a sign that this legacy moron You created in a ...
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A Man, A Plan, A Game Of Stratego

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Via Kevin Drum , I am still trying in vain to digest a remarkable foreign policy proposal from a self-described "Jacksonian". I s...
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Vultures

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Jesus. Even though Tim Johnson's prognosis looks fair to good, they're already picking over the corpse: Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) is ...
Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Consumption Junction

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I believe I alluded to this story last week , but it seems to be gaining traction : Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has warned Vice Preside...
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Israel Nukes

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It made sense at first, but nowadays the rote denial of Israel's nuclear capacity seems like just another stupid diplomatic pas de deux...

Payback

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Looks like SecDef Superb Job found a sweet spot for a parting jab: He's not even gone, and already Don Rumsfeld has his knives out for ...
Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Listening Tour

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How exactly can you tell when Fredo is listening , anyway? His cocked head and perked ears? His attentive gaze, resplendent in its fixity of...

Crazy Bastards

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If you're looking for an even more toxic convention of loons than the CPAC -- and really, who among us isn't looking for such a thin...
Monday, December 11, 2006

Top Ten Other Taliban Rules

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Psych. I can't really come up with one. It's hard to top the real rules , especially this one: Rule 19 says that mujahedeen may not ...
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Britney Spears' Pussy

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According to The Rude Pundit , just uttering the phrase is like SiteMeter Viagra. Let's find out. [Update -- Sunday, Dec. 17, 6:45 PM PS...
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Sunday, December 10, 2006

Props

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[Caution: NFL/esoteric football arcana post. Don't say I didn't warn you.] To LaDainian Tomlinson , who broke the single-season rush...

Death To Dictators

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[I wrote most of this post about a week ago. Pinochet's death this morning spurred me to finally go back and wind it up.] Perhaps it...

Still Haven't Found What I'm Searching For

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Apropos of nothing, I thought I'd point out a rather strange little factoid. I check the site meter pretty regularly; while I've lea...
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Saturday, December 09, 2006

Friends To The End

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Do we even need to ask whether Junior will even bother publicly addressing this "surprise" from the ISG report? Private Saudi cit...
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