...we find Ari Fleischer: Question to @gov: how come @BarackObama 's last tweet was more than 140 characters? Does he play by different rules??? — Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) September 24, 2013 @gov I retract my tweet. When I copy and pasted, it included the @BarackObama. — Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) September 24, 2013 Can I make … Continue reading At the intersection of innumeracy and technological illiteracy…

Forbes magazine has long been on the front lines of the daily struggle for US American millionaires and billionaires to escape their near-constant brutalization at the hands of minimum wage workers, welfare recipients, and the poor in general. But recently they've scored two direct hits in the war for (billionaire) equality. Most recently they published … Continue reading Today in peons oppressing the wealthy

No wonder George W. Bush saw something in Vladimir Putin's eyes those many years ago... He went on to suggest, however, that discriminating against gay people is important for maintaining population growth: Putin says while some European nations have allowed gay marriages, "the Europeans are dying out … and gay marriages don't produce children." He … Continue reading Дурак меня, не можете ведитесь снова

When I expressed some skepticism yesterday about the likelihood that the Syrian chemical weapons deal would hold together, I didn't realize it was about to fail its first freaking deadline: The ambitious U.S.-Russian deal to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons, hailed as a diplomatic breakthrough just days ago, hit its first delay Wednesday with indications that … Continue reading Admittedly, I didn’t think it would happen this quickly

Sorry for the somewhat breathless title, but I can't come up with another explanation for this: After falsely claiming that comments made by investor Warren Buffett in 2010 were made recently as an attack on the Affordable Care Act, The Weekly Standard doubled down, correcting the date but still wrongly insisting that Buffett's comments were … Continue reading BREAKING: The Weekly Standard has cracked the space-time continuum

Quite a bit has happened since the first part of this tale. In response to what looked like the use of chemical weapons by forces in the Syrian army against a rebel-occupied area of the Damascus suburbs, the Obama Administration pushed for a military strike meant to, depending on which person in the administration you … Continue reading Bashar’s Chemical Romance, Part 2: What Happened in Syria, and What Can America Do About It?

The Obama Administration kind of screwed the pooch on Monday. While the terrible events at the Washington Navy Yard were ongoing, in the sense that (if I was understanding the chaotic cable news coverage) the man who turned out to have been the shooter was dead but authorities were still concerned that there might be … Continue reading What is Chuck Todd’s job, anyway?

For those of us who are interested in US foreign policy, international affairs, and a little national security news now and then, it is becoming impossible to ignore the impact of climate change on real events. I'm not talking about some projection of temperature increases or changing weather patterns, or an artist's conception of what … Continue reading Trying to predict the next global hot spot? Pay attention to the climate.