Now that it’s officially pre-2009, we can start guiltlessly recycling all the material we’ve already written into Top Ten Posts. Today’s took a surprisingly long time to compile. It seemed like a good idea to look at all the funny terms we used to describe our Political Enemies, an...

Welcome to my bastard delight night, gents Where everything has a meaning but none of it makes sense Living is so demeaning but rappers still wanna offer Fake aliens…from lying saucers I don’t have the time, man I’m searching for bigger answers – “No Kings,” El-P ...

But what makes the French Revolution the first fascist revolution was its effort to turn politics into a religion. (In this the revolutionaries were inspired by Rousseau, whose concept of the general will divinized the people while rendering the person an afterthought.) Accordingly, they declared ...

I used to be a lot more interested in politics than I am now. In college (late 1960s) I was something of a right-wing activist at a time when almost everybody I knew was a left-wing activist. Over time, both I and my left-wing friends mostly moved on to other interests and concerns, as it slowly daw...

Jonah Goldberg has done it again, published a mindnumbingly stupid column. This time his column describes the Mormon Church as victim. Of course, it’s all got to do with Proposition 8 in California, the Mormon Church financially backing the proposition, and the backlash they have felt since. Y...

A video clip recently featured on Illinois Review extolling Teddy Roosevelt as a "progressive conservative" has stirred some offline discussion about whether Republicans should be so proud of TR and his political ideology after all.  Indeed, Roosevelt is criticized in Jonah Goldberg's...

Dumb dumb dumb, dumb dumb dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb, dumb dumb dumb dumb. That is one “dumb” for each paragraph of Jonah Goldberg’s Los Angeles Times column today. For the record, we did not expect it to be “good,” in the traditional sense —...

So, per my calling Jonah "Loves Fascism" Goldberg out on his non-sense about patriotism, the right-wing decides that I am a statist (oh really, how?). Well at least they are off the "commie" bandwagon now for a while. Here is what JustOneMinute's Tom Maguire writes about my post....

Cross-Posted at HuffPo ## Jonah Goldberg continues to demonstrate how the right-wing is manipulating public discourse in order to confuse and conflate patriotism with rabid nationalism. Make no mistake, this is a coordinated effort to deliberately replace substance with its symbol, meaning with an e...

An increasing number of books will be -- and should be -- mulched....