As only Andrew Klavan can:
Andrew Sullivan’s Dive Off The Deep End
November 20, 2009Andrew Sullivan hasn’t been worth reading for years as he descends into the fever swamps of paranoia and conspiracy, but I find this hilarious. Michelle Malkin points out Sullivan’s fever dream hatred of Sarah Palin has reached epic proportions.
Sullivan, the man who still thinks that Sarah Palin’s youngest child, Trig, is really the son of Bristol Palin and that Sarah covered up her daughter’s pregnancy by pretending to be pregnant herself, is now accusing Palin of being a fantasist. Here and here.
Poor Andrew…the only thing standing between him and total derangement is a single tinfoil hat.
There’s A Word For A Girl Like Mary Landrieu
November 20, 2009There’s an old joke where a man walks up to a woman in a bar and says, “Will you sleep with me for a million dollars?” She thinks for a second and then says, “Sure.” The man smiles and says, “Will you sleep with me for one dollar?” The woman tosses her drink in the man’s face and says, “What kind of girl do you think I am?”
“We already know the answer to that,” replies the man. “Now we’re just negotiating price.”
Apparently, Senator Mary Landrieu’s price is $100 million dollars.
Michelle Malkin has lots more on…umm…”Senators of ill repute.”
The Slavery Of Government-Granted “Rights”
November 18, 2009Over at the Washington Examiner, Iain Murray and Roger Abbott have an excellent op-ed addressing the notion of whether or not health care is a “right.” The whole piece is worth reading, but if you take anything away from it, it should be this chestnut from Alexis de Tocqueville:
“It’s not an endlessly expanding list of rights—the ‘right’ to education, the ‘right’ to health care, the ’right’ to food and housing. That’s not freedom, that’s dependency. Those aren’t rights, those are rations of slavery—hay and a barn for human cattle.”
Amen.