Stanley Kubrick, fake moon landings, and The Shining

By Jan 24,2010

Yglesias on liberal condescension

Matt Yglesias on Ben Bernanke: I note that liberals, in their condescension toward conservatives, sometimes wind up tying themselves into knots about guys like Bernanke. Bernanke is very smart and...

By Jan 24,2010

Obama will win in 2012

I’ll do my best to falsify that prediction, but I think it’s still the most likely outcome. I made this point two months ago. But in light of Scott Brown’s...

By Jan 24,2010

Can you blame soldiers for getting killed?

It sounds like a crazy question, but it’s coming from Andrew Exum, formerly an infantry officers and Army Ranger. Exum’s comments are a response to Leon Panetta’s insistence that no...

By Jan 23,2010

A sensible case against Citizens United

Sonny noted earlier that he literally cannot fathom objections to a Supreme Court ruling that strikes down restraints on freedom of speech. I’m no constitutional scholar, but let me try...

By Jan 23,2010

Obama: I am Scott Brown

How exactly? Did the President also pose au naturel to pay his way through law school? No, the similarity is political. In his interview Thursday with ABC, Obama explained, The...