Tag: Taranto
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If You Insist, I’ll Pontificate on the Election Results
A friend and former co-worker ("hi Father Tom!") teased me by phone today about being at my day job when I could be blogging about the election. I told him I didn’t think my dozens of daily readers are parked on my blog and repeatedly clicking the refresh button. But what if I’m wrong about that?
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Rand Paul: Giving Libertarianism a Bad Name
Taranto aptly called it “a rookie mistake” when newly nominated Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul told an interviewer that he was troubled by the fact that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — which Paul otherwise supported – crossed the line of regulating behavior by private businesses. However intellectually coherent Paul’s position might be in […]
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Hope (and Ammunition) for Opponents of Socialized Medicine
Thankfully, the public "option" appears to be dead. But just in case it attempts to lurch zombie-like from the grave, I’m glad to see an increasing number of resources available making well-articulated arguments against the move toward socialized medicine.
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“Obama Derangement Syndrome” May be Mutating; Taranto Gets a Sniffle
I’ve blogged before about Obama Derangement Syndrome, and its more prevalent predecessor, Bush Derangement Syndrome. But the ODS virus now shows signs of mutating into a subtler strain. Let’s call it Obama-Euphoria Debunking Syndrome (OEDS). James Taranto, whose Best of the Web Today is the one blog I make certain to read every day, has […]
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Don’t Blame Me For Rush Limbaugh, I Won’t Blame You For Michael Moore
Parts of the rightosphere are in high dudgeon about the fact that President Obama, at the annual White House Correspondents Association yuck-fest dinner, laughed at “jokes” told by “comedian” Wanda Sykes about wanting Rush Limbaugh to die of kidney failure. (Here’s a 78-second video.) There have been days of arguments at “the Id of Conservatism” […]
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Global Warming and the Anthropogenic Financial Crisis
When listening to President Obama’s dire predictions of “catastrophe” if a stimulus bill is not passed now now now now now, is anyone else reminded of the global warming debate? Even most skeptics about what Taranto calls “global warmism” would concede that there are valid reasons to want to reduce the use of fossil fuels […]
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The Perils of Blogging
Like many (most?) bloggers, I crave a bigger audience, and I thought I had found a gambit that might tempt James Taranto to link to me from his “Best of the Web Today.” Yesterday’s BotWT included one of his “Wannabe Pundit” items, quoting a journalist taking a pot shot at the Bush Administration in the […]
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Link Love (Be Still My Heart)
Taranto likes me! He really likes me! Moi is thanked today by James Taranto in the acknowledgements for today’s Best of the Web Today column. He spells my name right and everything. I (along with no doubt others) alerted him to the breaking news that Taranto’s least-favorite Republican, outgoing Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, is […]