J. P. Freire
The wide angle lens allows my gesticulation to look, well, monstrous, but in this video I do announce my candidacy for 2020 on a platform based entirely on ninja turtles to fight the North Korean threat. Whatever it will look…
My sometime sparring partner, seated safely in his new timeslot, takes a long segment to discuss how the tea party “movement” was really started by Fox News, Dick Armey, and Newt Gingrich, and then uses these strawmen to criticize just…
I have, for the longest time, been bewildered when somesuch politician decides to denounce the use of anonymous attack ads at the same exact moment that he is subject criticism from them. It’s like when a politician complains about the…
From the department of “are you listening to yourself?” and “what business are you in?” comes this little gem of the aforementioned sillyman and former U.S. attorney Chris Christie. Again, I don’t have anything against the guy, except that he…
Curious what a post-Obama Republican candidacy looks like? Fairly similar to a pre-Obama one. That is, riddled with the same sort of ethical lapses that made the GOP look incompetent enough to suck the wind out of its supporters. From…
Just came across this little item in the New Jersey Governor’s race. It’s complicated, but the short version is that if you give someone a no-bid contract for work and then you run for a federal office, you can’t take…
Last night at the Institute for Political Journalism’s Board of Visitors meeting, Tim Carney and I found ourselves explaining Twitter to our colleagues. It wasn’t a defense of the practice, really. The participants are all eager to learn about new…
Speaking as an unabashedly Pro-Rush self-styled cocktail-party attending intellectualoid wannabe, or whatever you want to call it, I’m bewildered at the number of people misunderstanding of Rush’s role. Yes, he is an entertainer — you have to be to keep…
Michael Brendan Dougherty has an incredibly thoughtful profile of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford. (I got to sit a few chairs down from him at Friday’s CPAC banquet.) Sanford’s speech (I’m poking around for a copy) was breathtaking. I know…
ATM Fee at Citibank now exceeds stock price.
