Senin, 28 Desember 2009

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Napolitano Fiddles While Obama Sunburns

Posted: 28 Dec 2009 08:23 AM PST

Remember how yesterday Janet Napolitano said that our airline security system worked because the city of Detroit wasn’t pummeled by the flaming wreckage of a jet airplane? Well, she’s changed her mind (via Jonah Goldberg). The new story isn’t “the system worked” but “the system did not work in this instance”. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano [...]

The Year of the Disappearing Narrative.

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 09:05 PM PST

How have the narratives failed in 2009? Let The Rhetorician count the ways. Ed Driscoll suggests there are likely a few more. I can think of one more. Whatever happened to that whole “most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history” narrative? It seems to have disappeared as quickly as ethics investigations against various [...]

Don’t Worry, Folks. We’ve Outsourced Homeland Security to the Dutch.

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 07:20 PM PST

By now I’m sure you’ve heard that an Islamist, acting on orders from al-Qaeda in Yemen, tried to blow an airplane over Detroit. He was unsuccessful because 1) al-Qaeda shops for its bomb-detonation instructions out of Wile. E. Coyote’s ACME catalog, and 2) a Dutch filmmaker pounced on him and gave him a good pummeling. [...]

The White House Wishes Us All A Mao-rry Christmas!

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 02:39 PM PST

Let’s play a little “what if” game this evening. What if George W. Bush had commissioned an outré artist to do some holiday decorating at the White House and that artist had hung an Augusto Pinochet ornament? You know the answer to that, of course. The ornament would have come off the tree in a hot second [...]
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