Archive for 'Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®'

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

The Shame Of The Ignorance Peddlers

Frequent readers know that I am an unapologetic 100% free-trader. I’ve made the case elsewhere, so here I will simply state that no movement in human history has improved the lot of so many as the development of trade, particularly in the modern democratic, capitalist sense. And yet America, a country that has […]

9 Comments » - Posted in Elephants, Domestic Affairs, Donkeys, Foreign Affairs, Hillary Clinton, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

It’s A “Bitter” Sweet Symphony, That’s Life

More on the bitter thing (I know there’s a debate on right now, but I’m too busy to watch): it appears that Obama will weather the storm again, and I must continue to attribute his good fortune to real disgust most Americans are feeling towards the Clintons and the way they have run this campaign. […]

18 Comments » - Posted in Barack Obama, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

It DOES Have Legs

…and the Hillary campaign is making sure of it. I’m referring, of course, to the second big Obama kerfuffle of Campaign 2008, affectionately known as ‘Bittergate’. Now, it’s almost impossible to know how badly this has hurt him from all the background noise the Hillary backers are making - but it has hurt, […]

12 Comments » - Posted in Barack Obama, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Hillary Clinton, 2008 News, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Thursday, April 10th, 2008

More On The PPA

That’s the Protectionist Party of America, formerly known as the Democratic Party. From the Washington Post editorial board (titled Drop Dead, Columbia):
THE YEAR 2008 may enter history as the time when the Democratic Party lost its way on trade. Already, the party’s presidential candidates have engaged in an unseemly contest to adopt the […]

15 Comments » - Posted in Barack Obama, Domestic Affairs, Donkeys, Foreign Affairs, Hillary Clinton, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

How Craven Are The Democrats In Their Know-Nothing Appeasement of Economic Illiteracy?

So craven that Nancy Pelosi will rewrite the rules in the middle of the game to prevent consideration of a free-trade pact she helped craft in a blatantly obvious attempt to curry favor with protectionist progressives:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said today that Democrats will seek to delay consideration of a trade agreement with […]

4 Comments » - Posted in Barack Obama, Domestic Affairs, Donkeys, Foreign Affairs, Hillary Clinton, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Don’t Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out

The universally reviled Mark Penn is out as Clinton’s chief campaign strategist, ironically enough for pushing free trade:
Mark Penn, the architect of much of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign, has been replaced as the campaign’s chief strategist in the wake of revelations that he lobbied on behalf of a trade treaty with Colombia that […]

7 Comments » - Posted in Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Hillary Clinton, 2008 News, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

No Crisis In Social Security? Tell That To The Trustees

One of the odder political transformations of recent times has been the newfound disdain the American left has for the notion that Social Security is in trouble. One needn’t look far for the reason - as Paul Krugman neatly explains here, it’s because the notion of privatization had gained traction, so the natural response […]

32 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

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Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Once More, With Feeling

Yes, I know, I know, another post about economics…but trade policy is shaping up to be a major (perhaps THE major) theme of the 2008 election (a sign of how much better things are in Iraq these days, and how bad the current economic picture is). I’ve made my stance on unfettered free trade […]

8 Comments » - Posted in Barack Obama, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Candidates, Election 2008 by Mark

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Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Playing The Smear Card

I’m not going to get bogged down in petty crap like this, but this is pretty pathetic.  You probably know by now that a radio talk show host, Bill Cunningham, kicked off a McCain rally the other day with an inappropriate diatribe against Barack Obama that repeatedly stressed his middle name of “Hussein”.  It was […]

2 Comments » - Posted in Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Barack Obama, John McCain, Republican Candidates, Democratic Candidates, Election 2008 by Mark

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Monday, February 25th, 2008

When This Blog Engages Barack Obama…

…you can be sure it will be on the issues.  This is not the home for slanderous rumors of the sort that are swirling around his candidacy, nor will I allow these sorts of items to go unchallenged in the comments.  You know the kind of nonsense I’m talking about - there’s no need to invite […]

34 Comments » - Posted in Barack Obama, Foreign Affairs, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Thursday, January 10th, 2008

How To Spot A Hack

Those who waved (and continue to wave - see McGovern, George) the Lancet’s 600,000+ excess-Iraqi-deaths number around as a blunt instrument to strike down defenders of the Iraq War had one advantage over us: they could point to the ’statistically sound’ methodology and fall back on arcane statistical niceties while we could only say “It’s […]

16 Comments » - Posted in Iraq, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

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Friday, January 4th, 2008

Lancet Study Re-Re-Re-Revisited

I was somewhat excited to see that National Journal, hardly a voice of the right wing, was taking on the Lancet study of 2006 that claimed that Iraq had suffered 179.63 million excess deaths because of the U.S. invasion (okay, well, about 700,000).  I never believed it then, and I don’t believe it now.
Ultimately, though, […]

1 Comment » - Posted in Iraq, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Ah, Blessed Academia!

Here’s one for the ages:
“A RACIST: A racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. ‘The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture, or sexuality. By this definition, […]

32 Comments » - Posted in Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

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Monday, November 12th, 2007

George Will On ‘Progressive’ Economic Foolishness

My friends, on both the right and the left, I ask you a question, in all earnestness: how can you vote Democratic if you understand the slightest thing about economics?  If for no other reason (and there are plenty of other reasons, but we’ll let that slide for the moment), I could never support a party that […]

29 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, John Edwards, Donkeys, Foreign Affairs, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Monday, October 15th, 2007

Matt Bai, Liberal New York Times Columnist, Appalled By Ignorance, Venom of Nutroots® Kingpin

Here’s one I couldn’t resist, from The Economist, reviewing Bai’s new book:
Mr Bai sets out to uncover the forces shaping the Democratic Party behind the scenes, both within and outside the party hierarchy. He spends time with howling bloggers, billionaire donors and the politicians who try to accommodate their impossible demands. He is instinctively sympathetic […]

45 Comments » - Posted in Donkeys, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

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Sunday, October 14th, 2007

Washington Post Editorial Board: Critics of Petraeus Were Wrong

I’ve had an undisguised admiration for the Washington Post editorial board for quite some time now.  There is no doubt that the Post leans left, as does the NY Times, but unlike the Times, the Post is not so blinded by partisanship that it cannot see any good news that doesn’t fit its political agenda.  […]

2 Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Radical Islam / GWOT, Iraq, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

The “Attempt To Avoid Being A Total Hypocrite” Post

I made no secret of my outrage over MoveOn’s “Betray Us” ad, and my contempt for Hillary’s cowardly response when questioned directly about it (she is running for Commander-In-Chief, after all). I’ve seen the apologetics MoveOn’s defenders have brought forth and have been unmoved - when you used loaded language, such as combining […]

46 Comments » - Posted in Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Navel-Gazing, NY Times/Media Watch, Hillary Clinton, Republican Candidates, 2008 News, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Yeah, What He Said…

I can’t excerpt this piece, because it must be read in its entirety, and I can’t add anything of value to it, so I’ll simply say: read the new George Will column.  Pronto…

6 Comments » - Posted in Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

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Monday, September 24th, 2007

Strange Bedfellows

Despite much controversy over the decision to invite Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak at Columbia, give credit to the institution’s president for pulling no punches:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took the stage at Columbia University on Monday to a blistering reception from the president of the school, who said the hard-line leader behaved like “a petty […]

47 Comments » - Posted in Donkeys, Iran, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, NY Times/Media Watch, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Thursday, September 20th, 2007

BRILLIANT Idea, Sherlock!

Boy, that MoveOn.org ad worked out well for the far left, didn’t it?
The Senate voted Thursday to condemn an advertisement by the liberal anti-war group MoveOn.org that accused the top military commander in Iraq of betrayal.
The 72-25 vote condemned the full-page ad that appeared in The New York Times last week as Gen. David Petraeus, […]

38 Comments » - Posted in Iraq, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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