I was going to tear into Andrew Sullivan’s wilting-flower routine this evening, but after reading Dale Franks reducing Sullivan’s argument to a quivering mass of impotence, I just can’t. It is a beautiful thing to behold and you should go behold it right away.
It helps sometimes if you’re on the right side of politics, to read up on the folks across the aisle. You do get some doozies sometimes. A good example is David Sirota a big-time Democratic operative (as seen in his resume on the right of his page) and writer who has gained the attention of [...]
We apparently have a Pope. Broadcasts have been fairly confused, since it’s not always easy to tell what color smoke is against an evening sky, but the reports are that the bells are tolling and the crowd in Vatican Square are cheering. I don’t have a television set here to catch the breaking news, but [...]
Well, since the Democrats have broken their promise to hold a vote on UN Ambassador John Bolton, we’ve seen the first phase of the attack on him. That phase paints Bolton as a horrible subordinate-eating ogre whose pugnacious hands-on-hips stances made career diplomats tremble in their cubicles. Now we see the next phase in the [...]
I can’t help but wondering when we’re going to hear this being criticized by the pundits. Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Friday that his party would wield the Terri Schiavo case against Republicans in the 2006 and 2008 elections, but for now needed to stay focused battling President Bush on Social Security. “We’re [...]
So former CBS news producer and fake document peddler Mary Mapes has written a book. Will it be a spirited defense of the documents – a day by day retelling of how she came to the story, where she got the documents, and how she verified their accuracy – or will it be an extended [...]
Has Jimmy Carter ever missed an opportunity to trash the country that elected him President? Someone needs to sit that man down and remind him that the occasional expression of gratitude for an election that gave him a measure of status far above his competence or apparent intelligence would not be unwelcome. That or appoint [...]
I can almost hear you asking me, “Hey, Jimmie? Anything interesting in those Google searches?” As a matter of fact, yes. Yes there are some interesting Google searches leading people to The Shack. 1) I’m pleased to announce that I am Number Two for the search phrase ["renee fleming" "washington nationals" "photo"]. Who’s Number One? [...]
There’s a saying that goes “even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while”. Today, Howard Kurtz plays the role of blind squirrel as he stumbles into a revelation. In reading about the House repeal of the estate tax, one sentence jumped out at me. By a 238-194 vote, the House rejected a [...]
In honor of today’s hope opener, Washington DC Mayor Anthony Williams and City Council Member Jack Evans have penned a weak as water defense of the Nats’ TV deal. Here are a couple quick points. First, the editorial says: In the two weeks since Major League Baseball struck a broadcast deal for our fledgling Washington [...]
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