Rhetorical Outbursts

The most surprising thing about the White House Correspondents dinner last night was that George Clooney ate at the table directly behind me, about four feet away. With him were the White House Chief of Staff and the Ambassador to the U.N. At the table in front of me was the Chairman of […]

I’ve been invited to the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday.

Reasons not to go:

I have to rent a tux. I have to wear a tux. Valerie Plame will be there.

Reasons to go:

It is an honor to be invited and to turn it down would be rude. I might get a chance to be rude to a famous […]

In this morning’s column, Jonah Goldberg expands on his Iraqi referendum idea:

If Iraqis voted to keep American troops, everything would change. The “occupation” and “war for oil” rhetoric would be discredited overnight. America would have put its vital interest money where its principled mouth is. Iraq’s anti-American factions would be further pulled into […]

This story made me smile:

On April 25, the Chicago Cubs were visiting Dodger Stadium for a three-game series. Playing center field for the Cubs was Rick Monday[.] * * * On this day, fate would hand Monday a moment that people still talk about with reverence 30 […]

Here’s another example of some followers of the Religion of Peace doing their thing at a rally in support of the April 17th suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. They were saying these things openly. In public. In New York:

Zionists, Zionists You will pay! The Wrath of Allah is on its […]

Jonah Goldberg argues persuasively for an interesting idea: an Iraqi referendum on whether U.S. troops should stay. The devil would be in the details, but it is a fascinating proposal:

Now, what if Iraqis voted no? Well, some of the above points would still hold true. Democracy will have been strengthened in Iraq. […]

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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Republicans are in trouble…

There is only one thing that can save the GOP this November, and it is entirely up to one man who has shown absolutely zero loyalty to his Party. I know Ex knows who I am talking about, but […]

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The Ninth Ciruit, the court responsible for criminalizing would-be-pledgers-of-allegiance in elementary schools across the Western United States, recently held that school systems may lawfully engage in viewpoint discrimination (PDF).

I waited to post this, because I was hoping to come across a newpaper article (for linking purposes) that clearly stated the facts in a complete […]

Apparently anti-Zionist, ultra-conservative Jews come in two varieties: those who support groups like Hamas and those who don’t. What they have in common is a belief that, “God had promised to return the Jewish people to the land of Israel by means of the actions of the Jewish Messiah who would be sent […]

We all need it. The President really needs it. Peggy Noonan had a great column on Thursday about why there is a lack of it in the Bush White House:

We all like a president who says “The buck stops here.” Mr. Bush never ducks the buck. But he puts severe limits […]