Category: The Dish

A nice put-down. Have you noticed that the op-ed pages – the NYT on Reagan and race, the WaPo on Iran – are becoming a little more bloggy? Except they can’t name one another and they don’t link. I guess they’ll figure it out eventually …

Jesse Benton writes NRO. Money quote:

Dr. Paul stands for freedom, peace, prosperity, and the protection of inalienable individual rights. He knows that liberty is the antidote for racism, anti-Semitism, and other small minded ideologies. Dr. Paul has focused all of his energy on winning the presidency so he can cut the size of government and protect the freedom of every American. Neither he nor his staff is going to waste time screening donors. If a handful of individuals with views anathema to Dr. Paul’s send in checks, then they have wasted their money. I cannot profess to understand the motivations of Don Black as neither Dr. Paul nor I know who he is, but a simple Google search shows that his $500 contribution has netted him at least 88 news hits, including Charen’s column. Perhaps a better explanation for his “contribution” is not support for Ron, but the attention he knew he would receive.

I guess he needs the money.

Please tell me there’s a mistake here:

The U.S. Military is demanding that thousands of wounded service personnel give back signing bonuses because they are unable to serve out their commitments. To get people to sign up, the military gives enlistment bonuses up to $30,000 in some cases.

Now men and women who have lost arms, legs, eyesight, hearing and can no longer serve are being ordered to pay some of that money back.

More here.

A little insight into the pathologies of the far-right. Here are Conservapedia’s most viewed pages:

Most viewed pages

   1. Main Page [1,894,429]
   2. Homosexuality [1,475,437]
   3. Homosexuality and Hepatitis [515,993]
   4. Homosexuality and Promiscuity [416,375]
   5. Homosexuality and Parasites [387,265]
   6. Homosexuality and Gonorrhea [327,795]
   7. Homosexuality and Domestic Violence [319,073]
   8. Gay Bowel Syndrome [305,261]
   9. Homosexuality and Syphilis [261,781]
  10. Homosexuality and Mental Health [243,293]

They are really are obsessed, aren’t they? Hewitt had a little moment today as well.

Her polling lead is almost cut in half.

Is Google trying to get into the magazine business?

New evidence suggests we should chill about violent video games.

Another sign that the president sees her as the natural heir among the Democrats.

A stealth john rises and disappears from the ground in China.