In case you missed it Ted Kennedy is dead. As with the death of all controversial figures this has led to the typical “should we speak ill of the dead” debate. My position is that is perfectly ok to speak ill of the dead, so long as it is done tastefully. It requires a different [...]

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 [...]

Dissident Frogman suggests that we, the anti-collectivists, are losing the war for hearts and minds. He gives this example, quoting the IMDB movie page for the ‘Boat that Rocks’ – a movie about a pirate radio station.

And by “all fronts”, I do mean “all fronts”. Example? Example:
Goofs: Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors [...]