Showing posts with label Slate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Slate. Show all posts
Saturday, January 25, 2025

I don't trust either of these guys as far as I can throw them

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  In 2016 J. D. Vance and Pete Hegseth were both conventional NeverTrumpers, and had not been particularly religious. Hegseth was for Marco ...
Friday, June 28, 2024

The left is having an apoplectic fit over the dagger the Supremes just put into the unaccountable administrative state, aka The Swamp: A massive blow

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 What about our careers?!  
Thursday, November 11, 2021

Flashback: SLATE finally called Obama a climate hypocrite in 2015 because he gave approval to Shell to drill off shore in Alaska, and then had the balls to go visit the Arctic Circle region right after

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 The Obamas, you will recall, notoriously spent a lot of time and money jet-setting about the globe, spewing carbon everywhere. The travel w...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Slate's Jordan Weissmann is scared of Joe Biden's propensity to flirt with cutting entitlements like Social Security and Medicare

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[O]ur ex-VP has talked extensively about his desire to return to an era of bipartisan cooperation. And whether we’re talking about Social...
Saturday, October 13, 2018

Democrats threaten with chaos and tyranny, stand for overturning all basic American political institutions and norms

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Voting Republican has literally become a vote for survival and is no longer simply a policy preference: The Electoral College is a ci...
Monday, August 6, 2018

Laugh of the Day: Socialist Jew invested in being white gets the bad news that just being white makes him a racist

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Isaac Chotiner: What could a white person in America in 2018 do to not be racist, or do you believe that’s impossible? Robin DiAngelo:...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Slate takes The Atlantic to task for not taking the 1% seriously enough

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Here in "Actually, the 1 Percent Are Still The Problem". Actually, the Reagan 1986 tax reform was the problem, but Jordan...
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

National Review's Kevin Williamson looks left and heads to The Atlantic

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Where Kevin and his sneering elitism will find a larger audience.  Slate's Jordan Weissmann pretends not to get it: "Above all e...
Thursday, January 26, 2017

How Mexico will pay for THE WALL: OK collects $11m from its 75k illegals sending money home by wire transfer

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That's about $147 per head. With 11 million illegals in the US, that's about $16 billion, enough to pay for THE WALL in a ye...
Monday, August 17, 2015

Liberal media love John Kasich, and so does Michigan's libertarian radio talker Steve Gruber

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Liberal media love Governor John Kasich of Ohio. For example: WaPo: "Kasich gives touching response to question on gay ma...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Robert Shiller Says The Problem Is Insufficient Demand. It's Not.

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The estimable Robert Shiller wants the problem to be insufficient demand, when the real problem is everyone in government is doing everythin...
Thursday, August 30, 2012

Rep. Ryan Falls In Line: Frames Obama's Reduced Rate Of Medicare Growth As Big Cut

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William Saletan for Slate mocks Paul Ryan, here : Since Mitt Romney tapped you as his running mate, you haven’t stood for fiscal restraint. ...
Friday, February 10, 2012

One's a Creep, the Other a Monster

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Tim Noah of The New Republic ( who admits Edward Kennedy was "criminally irresponsible" in 1969 ) helps you decide which is the cr...
Saturday, January 28, 2012

Heritage Foundation Director Responsible for Healthcare Mandate Idea in 1989

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It's one of three dirty little secrets about the Republicans that they are intellectually responsible for the healthcare mandate idea wh...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

I'm With Hitch: Secret Scripts and 3D Glasses are Kooky and I Don't Want a President Who Believes In Them

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If Rick Perry had any brains, he'd have said as much: [W]e are fully entitled to ask Mitt Romney about the forces that influenced his po...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Standards are Inimical to the Left, That's Why Ratings Agencies are the Enemy

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As here at Slate.com: "If everyone hates the credit rating agencies, why won't anyone enforce the Dodd-Frank provision to dethrone...
Thursday, July 7, 2011

The Liberal Attack on Bill Clinton Continues, This Time From Joe Stiglitz

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As picked up by Slate, here , which especially savors a straw man when mixed with a delusion: [A] powerful ideology—the belief in free and u...