I’ve a few thoughts before I see my Oncologist this afternoon. Identity-confused New York Times columnist David Brooks once played an oncologist, as reprinted triumphantly in the Huffington Post: [Sarah Palin] represents a fatal cancer to the Republican party. When I first started in journalism, I worked at the National Review for Bill Buckley. And Buckley famously said he’d rather be ruled by the first | Read More »
If you wish to insult me in a meaningful way, look to my ideology, my pen-pushing proclivities, or my cancer. Sure, that’s fine. I was not surprised that a few Sundays ago, a lad named Matt Stoller had referred to John McCain as “a crazy cancer-ridden dishonest madman [sic].” (The bracketed Latin is there because he skipped the commas. ) This was after a rant | Read More »
I’ve come to the recent realization that John McCain’s campaign is just like Luke Skywalker getting out of the Death Star – the media is firing at them from every direction, they’re coming in from everywhere. It confirms my worst suspicions about the collective intellect of those who cover politics for the major news outlets. I’ve never seen such a band a happy dupes, at | Read More »
No one says it. We have a beautiful, new RedState.com — 3.0, we call it — but good morning, Tony Snow has died. Fifty-three. Cancer. That’s what no one will say. It’s a dirty word. He was in the process of living a grand life and his reality changed, and now he is no more, here on Earth, than remains and memories. He was yanked | Read More »
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