Streetcar Line
The False and the Absurd
Quin Hillyer | 2.22.08
60 Minutes's coming attempt to nail Karl Rove in a scandal is a sham.
60 Minutes's coming attempt to nail Karl Rove in a scandal is a sham.
To paraphrase Bill Keller, the N.Y. Times's hit job on John McCain bespeaks a lack of sources.
Is Ron Paul's revolution about to be quelled in his own congressional district?
Is the Republican moment over? It's looking that way.
We may complain endlessly about them but, in a democracy, we get the laws we deserve.
N.T. Wright's defense of Rowan Williams is daffy.
Imagining the end to a career distinguished by its corruption.
From gun nuts and gun grabbers. No rally for McCain. Empty Obama. Dangerous drag races. Plus more.
The New York Times gets something right about John McCain.
Its lessons are unavailing, but that didn't stop the Brady Campaign president from saying something truly stupid.
It looks like the band is breaking up.
Obama's “fierce urgency of now” drivel is music to a self-indulgent age.
What's a few dead bodies if we get universal health care?
On that stretch of Highway 210 Saturday morning, nobody expected the Crown Vic.
Not First Lady material. Libertarian driving instructors. Scolding Ben Stein. Plus more.
What a slip of the tongue tells us about the Obama campaign.
No other suppositions about our origins would have been allowed.
It's not often that people look to the SEC for vice presidential material.
Candidate Clinton favors employing wage theft to enforce a “universal, voluntary” health care program.
Australia's new government has only just started the spin cycle.
In your heart… Bob Lott? Why not? Bioduels. Angry C-SPAN viewers. Plus more.
Moderation, seven-time losers, and National Review's call for a truce with McCainiacs.
The second coming of Chester Alan Arthur.
For proposing French schoolchildren study the Holocaust, President Nicolas Sarkozy is being assailed as a child molester.
Barack Obama's greatest asset, and his greatest defect, is his ability to speak.
Welcome to a private screening of Expelled, starring Ben Stein and a host of expellees, insurgents, and atheists.
Bill Clinton says Hillary will be history's second-best president.
Biofuel biofoolishness. Occam sock 'em. Welcome back, Diane Smith. Jilting Joseph Smith. What about Arnold? Plus more.
For Presidents' Day, the final word on the “insanity episode” of Mary Todd Lincoln.
Former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey has a mercifully few words of advice for his successor.
Why are Movement Conservatives increasingly tone deaf about where GOP voters come from?
Latin America's mercantilist policies are causing dangerously high inflation.
Pumped up readers. Trillions served. More on Mormons. Stop breathing for Lent. Plus much more.
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