Susan G. Komen for the Cure to Planned Parenthood (and Poor Women): ‘Drop Dead’

Ok, I WAS going to post a Maddow clip relating to Mittens’ overwhelming, inevitable victory in Florida. But come on — you already know the Sunshine State score: Big money, kosher food, negative ads, moon colonies. This is WAY more important:  the Susan G. Komen For The Cure Foundation, one of...

Jonah Goldberg: Maybe Stupid, Definitely Dishonest

Jonah Goldberg comes in for some well-deserved dissing for his latest Los Angeles Times column, in which he twists a quote from an interview of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Emily Bazalon in this past Sunday’s New York Times, to accuse Ginsburg of favoring abortion to reduce births in populations considered...

On Palin, Noonan Is the Antidote to Douthat

Eyal Press, at The Nation: I like Ross Douthat, as I’ve said here before, but earlier this week he wrote a justly panned column in which he claimed, absurdly, that Sarah Palin had been done in by media elites who “mocked and misrepresented” her because she didn’t graduate from...

The Ugly American

While signing autographs, “Joe” Wurzelbacher told Texas tea partyers today that he favors using government money to deport the 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States: While protesting government spending at Houston’s Independence Day Tea Party, Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher...

Closing the Circle

Thanks to Rush Limbaugh, we now know that Gov. Mark Sanford committed adultery because he was in despair over Pres. Obama’s handling of the economic crisis. But what we did not know until today was the answer to this question: What caused the economic crisis? Are you...

A Far Right Wingnut Tells Us What “Liberal” Means

La Shawn Barber thinks Jeffrey Goldberg is “a liberal blogger.” Sigh. La Shawn also wants us to know she is not an appeaser: (Detractors who called my Tiller post “gloating,” “twisted,” and “hateful” did so because I reminded readers that he killed infants for a living and because I...