The Exquisite Contrarian

Gordon Brown quite possibly cost himself a competitive election and his party’s victory with this ill advised comment after he jumped in the car.  Sky News appears to have left the microphone they placed on him running, and after hearing this decided perhaps their audience would find it interesting. Hey, at least he didn’t pull [...]

Eleanor Clift can’t be mistaken for anything less than a vocal, far left journalist that most often lets her leanings guide her pen, but the article she posted this week in Newsweek is no less interesting and valuable portrayal of Sarah Palin the politician than most, and it benefits from McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt’s [...]

Is there any argument to be made civility really exists in the current American political dialogue?  Dick Cheney says he’s proud of telling off Patrick Leahy to f*** himself.  By our count, there’s really no civility in empty, crass confrontations like these – and please, spare us the self-righteous “mission of truth” stuff.

Until recently, Heritage was quite willing to associate itself with Romneycare, but that appears to have changed. The words Romney and Massachusetts appear nowhere in Moffits op-ed, probably because the Conintern has lately concluded that Obamacare renders Romney damaged goods. See this withering Fox News interview with Chris Wallace, this dismissal from the libertarian Club [...]

Shocker: the rest of the world also knows W isn’t all that bright.  Thought we’d been able to hide that one.

Another ‘birther’ appears, in an interesting place and with impressive decoration.

Drones are effective. Should we be centering our strategy around them?  Are we already?

When patriots are being taught that the president is a religiously suspect traitor ready to hand the country over to some sinister international cabal, its hardly surprising they feel entitled to hurl hateful words at him or his presumed allies. Cose: Hate Is Drowning Our Politics.

We’re wondering if this assessment by commanding General McChrystal will result in backlash at home or abroad. “Amazing” is to us an amazing choice of adjectives when referring to civilian casualties.