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Here is an exammple of
Here is an exammple of what is wrong with Mollly Ivins these days. She writes a decent column about Bush claiming credit when he doesn’t deserve it, but she doesn’t tie it back to his past history of doing so. Like she documented in the friggen’ book she wrote!
Hitchens has a good article
Hitchens has a good article on exactly who the radical islamists are. Andrew Sullivan picked out the key paragraph,
“It is also impossible to compromise with the stone-faced propagandists for Bronze Age morality: morons and philistines who hate Darwin and Einstein and who managed, during their brief rule in Afghanistan, to ban and to erase music and art while cultivating the skills of germ warfare. If they would do that to Afghans, what might they not have in mind for us? In confronting such people, the crucial thing is to be willing and able, if not in fact eager, to kill them without pity before they can get started.”
The second great paragraph is here:
“I repeat what I said at the beginning: the objective of al Qaeda is not the emancipation of the Palestinians but the establishment of tyranny in the Muslim world by means of indiscriminate violence in the non-Muslim world, and those who confuse the two issues are idiots who don’t always have the excuse of stupidity.”
The Palestinians are just being used as tools for another movement of fascists. The US must address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for both moral and practical reasons, but al Qaeda is just another Middle Eastern fascist movement. Different in underlying ideology compared to the Baathists in Syria and Iraq, but just another group of fascists.
I wonder if Shrub would like to take on this line though:
“morons and philistines who hate Darwin and Einstein”
He wouldn’t want to alienate the Base, now would he–oh wait, that is base lower case…
From the adults are back
From the adults are back in charge file:
I missed this one by Molly Ivins. I’ve become increasingly bored by her columns in general. Her brillance is writing on the subject she knows more than anything else-Texas. The columns on international relations and a lot of national issues aren’t very insightful. However, this one asks one of those questions that the rest of the media doesn’t seem to think is important even though it really is. Cheney’s, the head adult, was either the most incompetent CEO ever or was involved in rebuilding a Iraq’s oil fields illegally.
Irony by Cal Thomas. He
Irony by Cal Thomas. He makes a church lady reference while schlepping for fundamentalists. Isn’t that special….
Doesn’t this answer the questions
Doesn’t this answer the questions regarding Drudge’s sexuality?
The Back Room is back
The Back Room is back at the Sun-Times and they have a great line from Jim Ryan’s campaign:
“The Democratic candidates are, for the most part, inexperienced political hacks who are all family members of the old ‘Chicago Machine.”
First, before addressing him anymore, let’s call him J-Ry since he is so terribly concerned about voter confusion. Generally, J-Ry isn’t a bad guy. A bit too conservative for my tastes, but he is generally honest and no more of a blowhole than the average pol. But come on J-Ry, let’s whine about your real problem–G-Ry.
After yesterday it is clear the two of you are far more at fault for the state of your campaign than those big bad Chicago pols (and it isn’t like DuPage is r’ral now is it?). The Capitol Fax dissects the problem well (no archive so get it while it lasts).
Krugman hits the nail on
Krugman hits the nail on the head. The Powell-Cheney fiasco was hysterical and the privatization debate is a joke–and a pretty funny one. However, Tapped played a fun game a week ago and bet that Kaus and Sullivan would have coniptions over a pretty damn inocuous passage, and I’ll take shot today.
This passage:
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Is it inaccurate to say that personal accounts equal privatization? We could argue on the merits. Under the Bush plan, a worker’s personal account reflects any gains or losses on the stocks it represents. When risks and rewards accrue entirely to the individual, isn’t that privatization?
But wait, we can do better. The push to convert Social Security into a system of personal accounts has been led by the Cato Institute. The Bush plan emerged directly from Cato’s project on the subject, several members of Mr. Bush’s commission on Social Security reform had close Cato ties, and much of the commission’s staff came straight from Cato. You can read all about Cato’s role on the special Web site the institute set up, socialsecurity.org.
And what’s the name of the Cato project to promote personal accounts? Why, the Project on Social Security Privatization, of course.”
Let’s start the countdown to numerous complaints about how Bush has always varied just a teenie-weenie bit from the CATO line and so Krugman is unfair and part of the Rainesian conspiracy…and the NEA is involved somehow.
James Webb has an excellent
James Webb has an excellent article on what we must be prepared for with an unilateral invasion of Iraq. For those who don’t know Webb’s history a great book can be found here.
The New York Times has
The New York Times has a couple good Op-Eds today.
First up, Thomas Friedman with a wonderful column that both hits the reasons to love the US and the reasons to undestand the problems the US faces.
Dowd also has a good column. I never ‘got her columns for the longest time. They are often devoid of a point and of little substance. The one thing they do, on occasion at least, is capture the essence of the subjects at times. She does a good job today, though, a little more substance day-to-day would be nice. And nice Peter Gerety reference. It is nice to know that watcihing too much HBO at least preps me for the NY Times…