Becoming Sane Read Kristoff’s editorial and note how, as Josh Marshall points out, Kristoff waffles a bit at the end, writing “But it does look as if ideologues in the administration deceived themselves about Iraq’s nuclear programs”. See? They didn’t decieve the public, or at least if they did do so, it was only because […]

Bizzaro World What did I tell you? Two posts ago, I called the Wall Street Journal Editorial Page “just plain wacky”. Six posts ago I recommended a fairly new libertarian blogger, Amy Phillips. Now Amy reports on more wackiness from the virulently pro-war editorial page of the WSJ: WSJ editorial writers are using the lack […]

Need to Get a Little Freaked Out before the Weekend? Read this from South Knox Bubba. AB

A Lucky Ducky Speaks Up One of my earliest posts was on the subject of the “lucky duckies”, deemed Lucky by the writers for the editorial page of the WSJ because they make so little money that they pay little or no income taxes, though they pay substantial payroll taxes. Via The New Republic’s Blog, […]

Consumer Sentiment Down “University of Michigan’s closely watched gauge of consumer confidence slipped to 87.2 in June from May’s 92.1,” Reuters reports. Gains in the stock market (it’s about where it was a year ago, after being way down), and dividend tax cuts, cuts in the top marginal rates, and expansion of the 10% bracket, […]

A Little Late Hopefully, Mr. McGruder won’t mind. It’s the perfect final take on the Franken/O’Reilly debate on CSPAN. (click to enlarge) ( AB

Some Sanity? From the NYT today: Federal authorities said today that they planned to use stricter standards for identifying and locking up terrorist suspects in light of concerns raised in a recent report that hundreds of illegal immigrants were mistreated after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. U.S. Citizen Mike Hawash remains out of luck, however. […]

Libertarians I’m always looking to link more opposing but reasoned views, but it’s tough to do in good conscience with most of the righties. I’ve got Postrel, den Beste, Lileks, BusinessPundit, Jane Galt, Media Whores Online, OxBlog, Samizdata, and Volokh (one of these blogs is not the same). That’s about all the righties I can […]

Living History Even if you’re not interested in reading it, you should probably buy it, just to anger some Republicans. And it has a second important use: it’s a great wingnut-detector. Keep it on your coffee table when you have dinner parties and, by watching closely for visceral negative reactions, you’ll know which of your […]

Dislike Margaret Carlson? Or at least agree that she’s annoying. See Bob Somerby thoroughly and incomparablyTM shred her here and here. A sample: Some of her work is ugly and vicious, like her distortions regarding [Vincent] Foster. But most of her work is just numbingly stupid. Somerby then goes on to back this conclusion up; […]