“Why would you hand the keys to the car back to the same guys whose policies drove the economy into the ditch and then walked away from the scene of the accident?” “For the Republicans to say vote for us and bring back the guys who got us into this mess in the first place, [...]

Barack Obama couldn’t even be bothered to turn up to Berlin to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Perhaps he was too busy making crass sexual jokes about anti-big government protestors:
According to Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, who supports the health care bill, the president asked, “Does anybody think that [...]

From a Guardian comments thread:
“Anyone with half a brain knows the planets resources are finite and in simple terms running out.”
Whereas anyone with a whole brain knows that this is simply not true and that more efficient technologies, new materials and new recycling techniques will mean that these worries about “running out” of resources will [...]

Some more apocalyptic enviro-loonery in the Guardian from the sub-Gaian organically lemonistically sour green cult. In an article that seamlessly conjoins 4th rate writing, 5th rate reasoning and 1st rate pretentiousness Alex Renton argues that rich people should stop reproducing* because they produce more carbon emissions than poor people. That’s right, he argues that [...]

A few days ago Mark Steyn, guest hosting for Rush Limbaugh, said this about Barack Obama’s video address to American schools:
Obviously we’re not talking about the cult of personality on the kind of Saddam Hussein/Kim Jong-Il scale.
You can check this by listening to this clip:

The New York Times reported this so:
Mark Steyn, a Canadian author [...]

At the end of a tough day you just want to sit back, drink some whisky, don a silly hat, slap yourself in the face with a salmon and laugh. To that end we have the Devil making fun of a silly article in the Grauniad ( “Why do television advertisers think it’s OK [...]

From the corner:

How Not to Make Important Decisions [Ramesh Ponnuru]
Michael Tomasky writes: “A health bill will likely have a very weak public option or it won’t have one at all. But liberals will have to battle for that bill as if it’s life and death (which in fact it will be for thousands [...]

Commentary in the UK about US politics is usually not of a very high standard. Usually it consists of people with the intellectual wherewithal of a tortilla, such as Michael Tomasky at the Guardian, copying stories wholesale from the left and centre left of the US media.
I had not previously placed Daniel Finkelstein or [...]

This is the face of a deeply despicable person.
I take it as granted that most people who write opinion pieces for newspapers are total idiots.  However, there is still a difference between your standard idiotic idiot and an evil idiot writing an evil column.  Here we have the latter with some disgraceful man going [...]

Some brouhaha in the US of A over the editorial by the CEO of Whole Foods that I linked to the other day and will link to again here. Some lefties are calling for a boycott of Whole Foods because their CEO has the temerity to suggest health care reform proposals that differ from those [...]