In simple terms: Carson's campaign consultants are Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom. Ben Carson himself is Franz Liebkind. And the Carson for President campaign is "Springtime for Hitler." The producers of this money-making flop are already looking for their next lucrative failure to repeat the scam in 2020. Franklin Graham seems, like Carson, to be an ideal front for this sort of thing. Read more
I'm not here to criticize this very common type of article. I just want to point out that: A) such articles exist; and B) if you fit the profile for such interviews, you should absolutely exploit that opportunity for all its worth. This gives you a captive audience. Use it. Read more
Back in 2013, progressives were unanimous and united in fighting for the extension of the Violence Against Women Act, just as they had been unanimous and united behind the law when it was first passed in 1994. Those who don't remember that fight in 1994 now seem to be remembering it differently. Read more
Donald Trump said something that was actually true. Plus: The blessed freaks; the Curse of Christopher Cross; Jeb! half-cocked on Twitter; and the CIA's script for "Office Space 2." Read more
If you read the 10,000 study notes in Ryrie's popular Bible back in 1978, and if you believed what they taught, it would have seemed utterly impossible to imagine that you would one day read an obituary, in 2016, reporting that Ryrie had died at the age of 90. There was simply no way, if all those notes were true, that the world would still be around in 2016 -- no way that Ryrie himself would live another 38 years without getting raptured first. Read more
"Ted Nugent’s Facebook post on guns and Jews draws charges of anti-Semitism," says the RNS headline. That suggests it's a matter of legitimate dispute whether Nugent's calling Jews "evil" and "punks" who "hate good over evil" actually merits the designation of "anti-Semitism." Headline writers really need to stop doing this crap. Read more
The authors tell us that "someone, probably Loretta" has printed up programs for Bruce Barnes' memorial service. But if we remember all the other things going on in this story -- things that the authors, and Rayford and Buck, seem to have forgotten -- then it seems like "someone, probably Loretta" must have been doing a lot of things. Read more
When a great comedian dies, we tell jokes because it would be inappropriate and disrespectful not to do so. Antonin Scalia was a sharp-tongued, pugnacious, partisan political brawler -- a man who loved and lived for contentious political argument. It is entirely appropriate, then, that his death should spark another fierce round of such argument. That honors his memory. Read more
"For the fate of humans and the fate of animals is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and humans have no advantage over the animals; for all is vanity." Read more
OK, I finally figured out what song that creepy "Always Submit to the Church Administration" ditty reminds me of, and it's not Frente! after all. Plus: The need for a new Twain; an honest discussion of witch hunts; and the true story of the Lone Ranger. Read more
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