Lou Dobbs: “These people are outdoing themselves in their hyperbolic exaltation of their left-wing primacy in our body politic.” Lou Dobbs, literally two seconds later: “By the way, Ezra Klein is the fellow that put together Journolist, that little group that has really turned into the, I guess you could call them the Brownshirts of [...]

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, my favorite Dane since motherfucking Hamlet, is getting crazier and crazier: NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Wednesday the Western military bloc is seeking greater Russian assistance for international operations in Afghanistan. Speaking to reporters after talks with President Dmitry Medvedev, Rasmussen said he was inviting Russia to step up [...]

I owe this to Dave Weigel, who, as I type, is madly cackling in the chair behind me. But if you think Time‘s Bernanke POTY is egregious, I invite you to take a trip back to 1936, when the magazine hailed Emperor Haile Selassie: If by some unhappy chance the Italo-Ethiopian war should now spread [...]

Danger Room‘s Nathan Hodge and Noah Shachtman have all the substantive commentary you need around this retarded Fox News piece. I just can’t get over the narration. Or the fact that the dude recites, with a straight face, “Commanders say when the Taliban hears these choppers come, they don’t like it at all!“

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 983-09 December 16, 2009 DOD Identifies Air Force Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of an airman who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Tech. Sgt. Anthony C. Campbell Jr., 35, of Florence, Ky., died Dec. 15 of wounds suffered from the detonation of an improvised explosive device in Helmand [...]

“First they came for the rich. And I did not speak out because I was not rich. Then they came for the property owners, and I did not speak out because I did not own property. Then they came for the right to bear arms, and I did not speak out because I was not [...]

I don’t say this enough because he’s a close friend and it’s weird, but Matthew Yglesias really is the best blogger in the game. This dissection of Time‘s decision to anoint Ben Bernanke its Person of the Year is an instant classic. These two sentences alone are worth the price of admission: [I]t demonstrates a [...]

Joe Klein finds a certain irresistible entranceway into contrasting Gen. McChrystal with Gen. Petraeus: In 1982 a freshly minted army captain named Stanley McChrystal arrived at Fort Stewart, Ga., and was invited for a run by a more experienced captain named David Petraeus. There are two versions of what happened next. The Petraeus version is [...]

I’m guilty of like a million of these, and there are only 29 tips listed here by Christian Bleuer. But I feel like printing these out and hanging them above my desk or taping them inside my Strunk-n-White. 8. Use exoticisms that make you sound really informed. Something like “Pashtunwali,” “Deobandi,” “badal,” “arbakai,” “jirga,” “shura,” [...]

Tom Friedman: Only Arabs and Muslims can fight the war of ideas within Islam. We had a civil war in America in the mid-19th century because we had a lot of people who believed bad things — namely that you could enslave people because of the color of their skin. We defeated those ideas and [...]