For those who can’t get enough of Bill O’Reilly’s dulcet tones, or his calm, elevated approach to reasoned discourse, Robert Greenwald has created a montage.
Ezra Klein
Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.
Posted inArticle
THAT’LL LEAVE A…
THAT’LL LEAVE A MARK. Brian Beutler — blogging LIVE from Argentina! — absolutely obliterates Kathryn Jean Lopez’s attempts to attack Al Gore by not understanding how science works, or when the thermometer was invented, or whether satellites have more sensitive detection systems than that thing the doctor sticks in your mouth. It’s pretty brutal, but […]
Posted inArticle
OBAMA’S HEALTH CARE…
OBAMA’S HEALTH CARE TOWNHALLS. Barack Obama‘s been holding his long-promised health care townhalls and, well, let’s just say they’re not going to net him a profile in courage. At the most recent event, in Des Moines, Iowa, Obama bravely pronounced that, “We shouldn’t just put more money into a system that isn’t efficient,” setting him […]
Posted inArticle
Health Insurance Works, Trusting Its Detractors Doesn’t
Some of you asked me to take a look at The LA Times op-ed by Michael Cannon and Michael Tanner on why universal health care ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. I should preface this by saying that I like Michael Cannon and have generally found him to be honest, thoughtful, and very, very […]
Posted inArticle
Friday Fun
I know I posted this yesterday, but I just want to remind everyone: Dick Cheney is watching.
Posted inArticle
Fatter, yes. Sicker, no.
Somebody should tell Arnold Kling that tarring liberal thought by associating it to those perfidious Europeans is so 2003. He’s embarrassing himself. Meanwhile, a few posts up, Kling’s colleague Michael Cannon has some good news out of a new study finding that Americans are actually becoming substantially healthier, even as our waistlines expand. “Despite substantial […]
Posted inArticle
Iraq and Al-Qaeda
Not to shock folks before they’ve mainlined their morning coffee, but it turns out that declassified documents, the interrogation of Saddam Hussein, and interviews with his senior aides have all confirmed that Iraq had no direct relationship with al-Qaeda in the pre-war period. I know! And it turns out that the pre-war intelligence report alleging […]
Posted inArticle
HOW THE ELECTORAL…
HOW THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE PROTECTS BRODERISM. David Broder, or possibly someone parodying David Broder, is predictably unimpressed by plans for various state to begin awarding their electoral votes to the winner of the popular election, thereby creating a de facto popular vote system in the country. Broder is concerned that we’re doing this too quickly, […]
Posted inArticle
JEW-COUNTERS FOR MCCAIN….
JEW-COUNTERS FOR MCCAIN. According to Think Progress, Fred Malek, John McCain‘s new funding co-chair, was one of Richard Nixon‘s Jew-counters — as in he, uh, counted Jews in the Bureau of Labor Statistics because Nixon though a cabal of them were doctoring the numbers — and, when he was younger, got arrested for killing, skinning, […]
Posted inArticle
Cheney 2008: He’s Already IN THE BUSHES!
I don’t actually know how to fully express the awesomeness of this New York Sun editorial encouraging Dick Cheney to run for president. “On Monday,” writes the Sun, “speaking in Alabama, the vice president received such a warm greeting that he began his remarks by saying, ‘A reception like that is almost enough to make […]