Posted at 2:32am on Jun. 7, 2008 "The Reign Of Thuggery"
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
A long and comprehensive look at the tyrannical nightmare that is Zimbabwe. No excerpting, as this is one of those pieces where excerpting doesn't do the article any justice whatsoever. But do note the many African leaders--Thabo Mbeki being foremost among them--who are either passively or actively working to ensure the survival and continuation of the Mugabe regime. These "leaders" may not have as much blood on their hands as does Mugabe, but they have quite enough nevertheless.
Posted at 3:35pm on Jun. 6, 2008 Senator McCain, don't underestimate a silver tongue (or foot)
By Erick
Senator McCain, I thought the same thing too the other day.
But back when William Jennings Bryan ran for office, there was no television, no radio, and no internet.
It was impossible to capture the moment, so to speak.
Do not underestimate a shallow candidate with a silver tongue to win a nation that craves reality television.
Posted at 11:43am on Jun. 6, 2008 Farewell, HamNation
By Ben Domenech
Mary Katherine Ham goes out in style with her last HamNation video. Congrats again to MKH on the DC Examiner position, which she starts in about a week.
Posted at 1:52am on Jun. 6, 2008 McCainocrats
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
An awful lot of them appear to be popping up, now don't they. The question, of course, is whether the media will ever notice or whether it will continue with the fiction that the only political conversions of note are the ones that benefit the Obama campaign. I suppose that it is possible that Republicans would not mind if the media ignored the McCainocrat phenomenon--it might make it easier to beat Obama in the general election if Obama doesn't see the various defections coming.
Posted at 1:29am on Jun. 6, 2008 Argument By Assertion
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
There isn't a single source cited or a single document quoted from to make the assertions that are found here. None. This is rumor-mongering disguised as journalism. How people get away with writing it and how people come to actually believe what is written in stories like this one is beyond me.
Posted at 1:26am on Jun. 6, 2008 "The Gas Prices We Deserve"
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
There should be more people like George Will writing for our newspapers' editorial sections. Furthermore, there should be more people like George Will making policy instead of just opining about what policy should be, but I guess we have to take things one at a time.
Posted at 8:37pm on Jun. 5, 2008 Re: Personally, I wouldn't mind the paycheck.
By Dan McLaughlin
Ironically, Moe, Rather could not have helped the Bush White House more if he had been on the payroll.
And McClellan could not have helped less if he'd been a paid double agent from the start.
Posted at 5:04pm on Jun. 5, 2008 Personally, I wouldn't mind the paycheck.
By Moe Lane
Assuming that they thought I was worth paying, of course. Unfortunately, nobody's trying to headhunt me:
Dan Rather to McClellan: Did the White House have any right-wing bloggers on the payroll?
Alas. Alack.
Posted at 1:11pm on Jun. 5, 2008 Quote of the day (Canadian Gaming Designer edition)
By Moe Lane
Robin Laws gives an outsider's (and reasonably balanced) view of the Scott McClellan story, assesses all the ways he feels that McClellan ticked off everyone, and concludes:
Scott McClellan, for the kamikaze earnestness of your self-immolation, I salute you.
I'm just impressed that he bothered to read the book. I didn't think those things were for reading. Just... for brandishing, and such.
Posted at 8:05am on Jun. 5, 2008 Annnnnnnnnd we're doomed.
By Moe Lane
For a given value of "doomed": RepRap universal constructor achieves self-replication (Via Instapundit).
Hint, guys: "Grey goo?" Contraindicated. Con-tra-in-di-cat-ed.
Posted at 12:52am on Jun. 5, 2008 Poll-Watching
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
Hey Andrew, let us know when there is a poll with likely voters. You know, the ones that actually stand a greater chance of being found at the voting booths and are more likely to vote Republican as well. They tend to get things right more often, you know.
Posted at 12:41am on Jun. 5, 2008 Correctamundo
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
My, but Norman Borlaug has this interesting habit of being right about super-important topics, doesn't he?
Posted at 12:39am on Jun. 5, 2008 Why John McCain May Win After All
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
Behold the effects of a long, fractious, bloody primary and caucus season. While a number of Clinton backers may return to the Democratic fold, if enough stay away, it will serve to irrevocably harm Barack Obama's attempts at creating a winning coalition.
Posted at 11:39pm on Jun. 4, 2008 "I'm Eating Bacon Flavored Popcorn RIGHT NOW"
By Ben Domenech
We've consumed a lot of popcorn during this primary season. If you, dear reader, wanted some popcorn for Hillary's speech on Saturday - or for the NBA Finals even - you should follow RS's Leon Wolf's lead, and order yourself some bacon salt, the zero calorie, vegetarian, kosher seasoning salt that makes everything taste like bacon.
Yes, you heard me right, fellow Americans: IT MAKES EVERYTHING TASTE LIKE BACON.
What a country. Oh, and they have a blog.
Posted at 4:44pm on Jun. 4, 2008 And Maureen Dowd discovers the joys of being exasperated with Democrats.
By Moe Lane
Careful, Ms. Dowd: this is how it starts. You begin by offering a pox on both houses on an internal faction fight, then you start thinking to yourself "Actually, maybe there is something to this Laffer Curve notion," and then you maybe start musing on the real need for a Department of Agriculture - and the next thing you know, you're on Sunday morning talk shows snickering at identity politics and explaining why President McCain needed to support the Iranian rebels.
Just saying, that's all.
Posted at 8:56am on Jun. 4, 2008 Quote of the morning.
By Moe Lane
Jim Geraghty, on Clinton's speech:
She basically said that his verbal commitments from the superdelegates, along with two bucks, will get him a cup of coffee at Starbucks.
Although I thought Starbucks charged a lot more for their burned, bitter coffee. What? No, I wasn't planning to enable comments for this RH. Why do you ask?
Posted at 8:49am on Jun. 4, 2008 NYT notices Netroots' issues with delayed gratification.
By Moe Lane
(Via Hot Air) The funny part is, they used only the nicer netrooters. I can only imagine what the more representative ones are saying right now; well, I suppose that I could look, but that would involve me caring more.
Posted at 1:18am on Jun. 4, 2008 Real eminent domain reform losing in California
By Neil Stevens
The most recent returns show bad news in the California primary election. Proposition 98, the Howard Jarvis property rights initiative, is losing while the pro-eminent-domain, fake reform Proposition 99 is winning.
So we'll get a little protection, but not much. How disappointing.
Posted at 1:07am on Jun. 4, 2008 Yet Another Quote Of The Day
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
The nation with the lowest levels of poverty and income inequality in the European Union (EU), as well as the lowest rate of long-term unemployment, is Denmark -- a country with competitive product markets and some of the least restrictive labor laws. Countries with the worst social outcomes (Greece, Italy and Portugal) all have restrictive product and labor market laws. Liberalization, it seems, no more threatens social justice than regulation guarantees it, says Philip Whyte, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform.