Corporate attorney in America's natural gas industry. Chief Neoliberal Shill Emeritus. I argue for liberty, an open society, and the Constitution. Views my own.
This team set the stage for failure in Afghanistan by invading Iraq, where their incompetence turned a successful 42-day military campaign against a genocidal fascist regime into a disastrous occupation that became one of the most destructive geopolitical failures in our history.
Only two European states have ever given up their nuclear weapons.
Ukraine gave them up in exchange for a Russian promise to respect its "sovereignty and existing borders" and was invaded by Russia for it.
Belarus, the other country to give them up, is now a Russian satellite.
A bold idea: NATO offers to withdraw nukes from Europe (militarily useless, ineffective deterrents as we’ve just seen, & recklessly dangerous) in return for ending the invasion. Putin gets a “win” which costs us nothing worth having.
Actual fifth columnist.
100,000 Russian troops are massed on Ukraine's border, but Tucker claims that Putin "just wants to keep his western border secure." He then compares Russian forces to illegal immigration in the United States and normalizes Putin's killings.
Disgusting.
I understand some of the right's cultural frustrations, but the reaction to President Zelensky has been uniquely unhinged - he has demonstrated all the Churchillian virtues we're taught to aspire to as men, but the response among so many on the right has been deranged skepticism.
Zelensky visiting frontline cities while Putin hides is the greatest demonstration of the intellectual, moral, and spiritual bankruptcy of the Russian effort. Nothing more damaging for a country arguing that it’s fighting for masculine virtues against a decadent opponent.
It's just mind-blowing the way that so many of the replies to someone smoking crack in an enclosed public space amount to "mind your own business" and "how does this harm you, sweety," as if people should just shrug and accept second-hand crack smoke as the price of the subway.
Earlier today the Governor said the subway was safe and plans to get people the help they need was working.
Here's my ride tonight. Two women smoking crack together.
Can we get people to stop smoking crack on the subway?
Russia feels like such a tragedy. So many resources and so much space. So much talent and so much potential. And it's all just squandered by the most miserable regime in Europe, as it was by the regime before it, and the one before that one. Absolute tragedy.
This Presidents' Day, remember the forgotten greats like Calvin Coolidge (in office from 1923-1929) who enjoyed buzzing for his bodyguards and then hiding while they searched for him.
Today is a great day for Americans.
Morocco was the first country to recognize American independence in 1777, just a year after our Declaration of Independence.
Portugal made its bed by waiting until 1791 - and today, at long last, its chickens have come home to roost.
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Translated for Americans, this is a call to ban air conditioning at temperatures under 86 degrees. The American Revolution was justified in its time, and it remains justified now.
Unreal that a fascist dictatorship has invaded a small, neighboring democracy in a nakedly imperialist project of territorial conquest, and the response of the extreme left in this country is exactly that of the extreme right - unconditional solidarity with the fascist invaders.
Ever since the Bush administration said there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, I've questioned propaganda. I'm not an NPC - I think for myself.
That's why I completely trust Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin when he says there are weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine.
This makes no sense. Jesus was executed because he was seen as a political threat to an imperialist, autocratic empire whose unelected emperor ruled for life over the ashes of a dead republic.
@roddreher
"The revolution is when Target sells compression tops."
"Babylon is when Target sells compression tops."
"Late Rome is when Target sells compression tops."
"Weimar is when Target sells compression tops."
Do you really believe any of this?
everything I want, and plenty that I didn't know I wanted until I saw it, all at reasonable prices and good supply. the bountiful fruits of trade, commerce, and human progress, an ever-expanding abundance that will over the long arc of history bend toward even greater heights.
While some of you might be shouting "Go Greta Thunberg!” or "Go Andrew Tate!", I'll be shouting "Go Romania's Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism and the rule of law!"
Some white people may choose 👍 because it feels neutral — but some academics argue opting out of 👍🏻 signals a lack of awareness about white privilege, akin to society associating whiteness with being raceless.