I’m worrying a lot that Obama might win the Democratic nomination. This has nothing to do with my personal feelings about the weakness of Obama’s … platform, I guess, for lack of a better word–the whole feel-good “I will bring this country together again by the magnificence of my rhetoric and the magnetic force […]
On the long list of people who may or may not have had a hand in Benazir Bhutto’s assassination — Pervez Musharraf (everyone in Pakistan already believes Musharraf had a hand in her death), al-Qaeda, the Taliban, the militant outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi which doesn’t have close links to al Qaeda, “Hamza bin Laden the son […]
If we’re going to be a surveillance society, we may as well be internationally recognized for it, right? And now we are. In Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and Privacy International’s joint annual survey of worldwide privacy rights, we’re tied for first place with countries like China, Russia, Singapore and Malaysia. […]
Bilawal Zardari is apparently his mother’s heir but he’s not sounding much like his mother’s son. Either that, or he doesn’t care overmuch for the martyr’s role his mother embraced so eagerly, and that he feels she has now pushed upon him. Or maybe his sense of filial piety just requires him […]
Is Mike Huckabee a Born-a-Gay Christian?
I don’t know; you be the judge: he doesn’t know if people are born gay, but he knows it’s still your choice whether you engage in gay behavior or not.
I’m guessing that means he’s not a Born-a-Gay Christian. But it could just mean that Huckabee doesn’t know what the […]
On Thursday I spoke at length to a very nice lady in the D.C. area who had met Benazir Bhutto in the flesh (and wasn’t too impressed at the time), and who shared her personal reminiscences with me. I am generously concealing her identity here lest she be inundated by requests to run for […]
First it was a gunshot wound:
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday after addressing a large gathering of her supporters.
Bhutto died of a gunshot wound to the neck, the Pakistani Interior Ministry said. The attacker then blew himself up. The bomb attack killed at least 22 others, doctors said.
Then it was shrapnel:
Authorities initially […]
The absurd Jonathan Weisman writing in the absurd Washington Post about the absurd Mike Huckabee’s “FairTax” plan:
FairTax advocates say a 23 percent tax rate would maintain the same amount of money flowing into the Treasury, though that number is debatable. An item priced at $1 would actually cost consumers 30 percent more, or $1.30. FairTax […]
The story thus far: Rudee is determined to keep his client lists secret:
Rudee on disclosing to the American public what kind of people he has been in bed with the last few years through his law firm and his security firm:
Well, first of all, I couldn’t do that. I mean, I couldn’t put out a […]
…but right in the middle:
Skiing purists are grumbling this year as they brace for an influx of snowboarders at Taos Ski Valley, one of the last ski-only holdouts in a culture war between the two pursuits.
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“I’m afraid of snowboarders because they are crazy,” said 30-year-old Alina Appasova from Houston as she ate breakfast at a […]
