Category Archives: Other punditry

This NRO piece by Jennifer Graham is stupid, condescending, and racist. Jesse has a great and appropriate response. Check it out. Continue reading →

If you haven’t read Kevin Drum’s interview with Paul Krugman, run, don’t walk, over there now. Top-notch stuff. I’m thinking it’s time to start hectoring CNN and MSNBC to give Kevin his own talk show. Who’s with me? Continue reading →

I don’t usually link to specific posts by Atrios since I figure everyone is reading him anyway, but his post about identity politics is one that I really want to make sure everyone sees. I also recommend what Steve Gilliard … Continue reading → Continue reading →

New Houston blogger Jaye Ramsey Sutter has an op-ed in the Chron today in which she criticizes the new moment-of-silence and pledge-to-Texas state laws. She adapted the piece from a recent blog entry. Way to go, Jaye! Continue reading →

So that Ramirez cartoon which has caused such a kerfuffle is in today’s Chron. I can’t wait to see the letters to the editor. I make it even money that at least one person will write to say that he … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just a few things that caught my eye recently… Cowboy Kahlil does some electoral math. You’ve probably already seen Calpundit’s pointer to the Medpundit‘s Road to Damascus moment (scroll down to that title) regarding tort reform and malpractice insurance, but … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Greg Morrow has a few choice words for John Ashcroft, and Arthur Silber has a few more for pro-invasion hawks. Check ’em out. Continue reading →

I haven’t been beating the drums over the FCC’s proposed rules to allow even more media consolidation, but it’s gaining a reasonable amount of attention. This article raises an interesting question: Here’s a quiz for you: Name the best-known and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Nearly two months ago, I wrote about receiving email at my only-published-on-the-old-Blogspot-site address about the Heritage Foundation’s Big Ol’ Blog Initiative, which is to send email to a bunch of bloggers and beg them to link to stuff they’ve written. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Have you ever heard of the “No Guardrails” theory of public morality? I hadn’t, but Radley Balko has a nice piece about it. “No Guardrails” basically blamed society’s elite — and the leftist elite in particular — for adopting the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Population: One suggests a political ad I’d like to see. And yes, though you may have heard it was an urban legend, something like this did actually happen. Continue reading →

The funniest thing I read today was this opinion piece by Sherry Sylvester of Texas Media Watch, which blames “one-sided and emotional” coverage of the ongoing budget battle to – wait for it – media monopolies. Yes, readers of the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Kevin Drum has had enough of Glenn Reynolds: Glenn’s schtick has always been a bitter and cynical one, but the end of the war seems to been a watershed for him. Like Rush with his “stack of stuff,” Instapundit has … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Greg Wythe responds to my piece on moderates and extremists. Check it out. Continue reading →

Meant to blog this last week, but I was temporarily kidnapped by aliens and replaced by a pod person (I’m sure none of you noticed the difference). Anyway, Tom Tomorrow notes that sixteen Democratic senators voted in favor of the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The best one-liner I’ve heard today goes to Joni Electric: The price of gas in Texas has gone so high that women who want to run over their husbands have started carpooling. She’ll be here all week, folks. Be sure … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I suppose I should be grateful that articles like this even get written. I mean, San Antonio is a military town in the heart of Bush country, so when one of their writers goes off on a screed about how … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I have to admit, when the Chron‘s Cragg Hines gets snarky he can be quite entertaining. Take this piece on Tom DeLay’s strongarm tactics to force the Lege into taking up congressional redistricting: The last time I wrote about Tom … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Emma from The Oregon Blog, Barry Deutsch, and Nathan Newman are arguing about that moldie oldie Nader v. Gore. My sympathies are pretty firmly with Nathan on this one. In particular, I’m right there with him as he goes, for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well, not really, but they did print an opinion piece about it. The current GOP Team Leader-inspired turfing has been known for over a month, thanks to the likes of Atrios and Failure Is Impossible, but better late than never, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The good news is that famed Texas populist Jim Hightower has a blog. The bad news is that the design sucks, the layout is ugly (and when an “aesthetic retard”, as Tiffany lovingly calls me, says something is ugly, you … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In my last entry, I took a potshot at the Chron‘s letters page: When they print a letter that’s in response to a news article, editorial or prior letter, would it kill them to link to the original piece? At … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In January, John Cornyn took the first step to fulfill a campaign promise to pass a Constitutional amendment banning flag burning. Here’s an excerpt from the January 17 Chron article, which is now archived: “Our flag represents the thousands of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Kevin Drum has an interview with Josh Marshall on his site that’s very much worth checking out. Nicely done, Kevin! I wonder if we’ll start seeing more of this in the future. It’d be pretty cool if so. Continue reading →

Barry points to this piece by Dirk Deppey which asks “Where are the pro-war editorial cartoons?”. Dirk in turn was inspired by this Indian Express story: “Empty warheads” is how an American cartoonist recently described Washington’s war planners. The rest … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Blogging is better than old media because I can do things like quote Ted Barlow: From today’s Howard Kurtz profile of Paul Krugman: Online columnist Andrew Sullivan, a frequent Krugman antagonist, derides “the extreme partisanship, the self-righteousness and the moral … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Salon has a nice article (in Premium, alas) about how executions are often seen as giving “closure” to the families of the victims, when in reality this is not the case. Here’s an excerpt: No psychological study has ever concluded … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Jim Henley, Oliver Willis, Atrios, and Patrick Nielsen Hayden say they are not bothered by protesting the specter of war in Iraq alongside some extremely disreputable characters. Tacitus and Greg Wythe say they should be. I’d like to come out … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In case you’re wondering what Ann Coulter might have been like in college, here’s a taste. Of the many sad things about this person, I think the saddest is that she’s an English major. But hey, she’s kinda cute and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Kevin points me to this NRO article which addresses the question “what is it that Republicans really stand for?” I don’t agree with his assessment of what Democrats stand for, but it’s an interesting read nonetheless. One quibble: It was … Continue reading → Continue reading →

One reason I read Unqualified Offerings is that there’s always an interesting link to something I don’t find elsewhere. Here Jim points to this Gene Healy piece that asks if al Qaeda is as big a threat as we think: … Continue reading → Continue reading →

TAPPED invites people to email Mark Steyn and inform him that his latest column contains a big, fat, long-since-debunked lie. Meanwhile, Atrios is on Day Three of his campaign to get Jonah Goldberg and Andrew Sullivan to apply the same … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Ted Barlow is back. Woo hoo! Continue reading →

Kevin Drum admits he lied about where he gets his hair cut. I demand a special prosecutor! Continue reading →