Showing posts with label P. J. O'Rourke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label P. J. O'Rourke. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Breaking: Hillary 2024 loses another voter, P. J. O'Rourke dead at 74

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Tuesday, June 18, 2019

P. J. O'Rourke: Capitalism Gets Rid Of Things That Don't Work [You Know, Like Babies]

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About 56 million are aborted annually worldwide at the zenith of global capitalism. [C]apitalism ... gets rid of stuff that doesn’t wor...
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

What a shock, David Cole Stein is a shameless thief

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1987 2014
Friday, June 30, 2017

Not to be outdone by P. J. O'Rourke, libertarian Mark Perry also genuflects toward the hypocritical French today

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Namely toward Frederic Bastiat, here , who wrote against "legal plunder", never once mentioning that the estate off of which Bas...

P. J. O'Rourke discovers the limits of individualism, gets wet for (French) state capitalism

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Arianespace. Here . When regular capitalism won't do, there's always the comparatively smaller French state capitalism: ...
Thursday, May 11, 2017

What P. J. O'Rourke doesn't get is that free individuals would never make babies without hormones

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And they'd never make war, either. So O'Rourke's ideal libertarian world of individual freedom would die out first, from failu...

The Grauniad complains P. J. O'Rourke's new book is "rural" and "lazy"

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One David Runciman, here , who evidently does not know that the old boy has slowed down since he became sick with cancer: [O'Rourk...
Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Has anybody checked on P. J. O'Rourke to make sure he's OK?

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Maybe John Kasich knows.
Saturday, March 26, 2016

P. J. O'Rourke was more right about John Kasich than he knows

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According to careful vote counting by  FiveThirtyEight , "Kasich could lay off winner-take-all states where only Cruz has a chance to...
Sunday, December 13, 2015

P. J. O'Rourke explains why trouble making the mortgage, plundering a retirement account and buying stuff he can't afford all qualify Marco Rubio to be president

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Here : "Rubio owns houses that he has trouble paying for. We, the American people, own two houses (of Congress) and the White Hou...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

P. J. O'Rourke is a know nothing, about the dress of Donald Trump and of George Washington

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Here : Show me one candidate who has the dignity of Washington . . .. [T]ypical of modern Americans is Trump’s bad taste. ... He...
Friday, May 8, 2015

In defeat Nigel Farage realizes the problem is representation, as the American founding generation understood

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Here : "There is also the question of what is fair and reasonable. For so many millions of voters to have just one representati...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

L'affaire Lena Dunham disturbs libertarian P. J. O'Rourke

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Here . There is yet hope for our world.
Sunday, November 23, 2014

Excellent visual gag from P.J. O'Rourke and The Daily Beast today about Senator Crockagewea

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Here , and I made sure that I didn't ruin it for ya.
Sunday, November 9, 2014

WaPo claims to be scared Congress has more Tea Party radicals now, but P.J. O'Rourke knows better

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And who better to really know than a fellow-traveling Tea Party libertarian? Here : [Scott] Brown lost the Senate race to Democr...
Sunday, July 20, 2014

Stupidest thing P.J. O'Rourke ever wrote

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Here : "Imagine trying to make the Ten Commandments into laws." Hm. I thought we already had. Stock markets remain closed on Sunda...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Stupid: Well, There It Is

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P.J.O'Rourke, here : Call a man, best of all, wicked and you get to don the sacramental vestments, climb into the pulpit and thunder for...
Monday, May 2, 2011

Obama is a leech . . .

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. . . and the IRS can go audit itself. Oh the delights we enjoy from PJ O'Rourke, here , who proposes a 35 percent tax on the federal b...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Fried Fruit Cocktail

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"Politics is like a cookbook where the recipe for everything is to fry it." -- PJ O'Rourke, here
Sunday, May 16, 2010

"Politics Is Like A Cookbook Where The Recipe For Everything Is To Fry It"

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Everyone should be so lucky to have advice from the inimitable P. J. O'Rourke. A couple of years ago he offered some of the bad kind to ...