Andrew Sullivan's Ongoing Public Implosion

MC reads Andrew Sullivan so that you don't have to. You're welcome. If you don't know who he is, do the Google on the internets and bone up. He once really was something (a young Brit who was Catholic, a Tory, editor of The New Republic and openly gay when it wasn't fashionable) but over time became something of a nut. Honestly, people still can't quite believe it. Pity about that.

What has people talking now, however, is that his blog, The Daily Dish, hosted at The Atlantic Monthly, has gone quiet. Why? He's reading Going Rogue. So what? Well, Andrew disgraced himself last year by banging on, to use a Brit term, about Palin's fifth pregnancy, ie, Trig, born with Down Syndrome. First he was convinced it was Bristol's and Sarah was covering up. When Bristol's pregnancy became known (hey Levi Johnston! your 15 minutes are up!) he pleaded honest inquiry. Right.

His writing became so focused on all things Palin, including the most rancid internet rumors, that The Dish went silent for the first time. In other words, the adults at The Atlantic Monthly gave him a time out and sent him to his room for a few days. Now The Daily Dish has shushed itself for the second time and the blogosphere is having a field day. Truth be told, so are we.

Click on the title of this post to read Ace of Spade's hilarious take on the latest installment of poor Andrew's decline. Graphics in this post were first seen there. The link in that piece to Iowa Hawk is not to be missed if you know anything about Sullivan. Ouch.

Hat tip: Scott Johnson of Powerline

The New Republic: Obama Has No Magic Overseas

And not much left domestically, MC might add. We were struck by the always readable if sometimes predictable Leon Wieseltier's "Washington Diarist" back page ruminations in the most recent issue of The New Republic.

His point of departure is the shameful absence of Obama from the world's celebration in Berlin on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. His observations, more broadly, acutely highlight the emptiness of so much of this administration's approach to the world and foreign policy issues. Click on the title of this post to read Wieseltier's whole article. MC found the following excerpt deadly:

"Liberals no longer remember that anti-communism was once a glory of liberalism. The president is so busy breaking new ground in foreign policy that he may not see that the ground of his foreign policy is broken. His renunciation of idealism has brought none of the rewards of realism. Conflicts that were supposed to be transformed by his magic are immune to his magic. He has no magic. There is no magic. His trip to China, where the subject of human rights was “raised,” has shown this again. When he gets back, perhaps he will meet with the Dalai Lama, but not for the purpose of “strategic reassurance.” That blessing is reserved for Hu Jintao. It makes sense that the man who refused to meet with the Dalai Lama did not make it to Berlin."

Attorney General Eric Holder Is A Fool

Yes, MC knows, calling someone a fool is hardly elevated discourse, incisive analysis or shrewd observation. It's akin to "Shut up," he explained. Still, MC goes with fool and so will you when you read about the Attorney General's appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee today. If you thought Obama was in over his head, let's just say he has company with the man who thought it perfectly fine for Bill Clinton to pardon Marc Rich. Were but that the worst of it.

No, this, apparently, is the man who decided Khalid Sheik Mohammed (that word again) should stand trial in a federal, civilian court. Manifestly this is a Presidential decision but the hopey changey crowd in DC attempted to make it seem a normal decision within the ambit of the AG's office. It is anything but. Is there nothing Obama won't fob off on others or outsource in some way? No wonder he's taking so long on troops to Afghanistan: he can't really say someone else needs to make the decision. Where's a decider when you need one?

At any rate, click on the title of this post to read Allah Pundit's take on the AG's appearance and his incompetent, pathetic and, yes, foolish responses to Senator Lindsey Graham's serious and thoughtful questioning. This is the man leading our justice system? Is it 2012 yet?

When Real Life Becomes The Onion

Obama's Home Teleprompter Malfunctions During Family Dinner

Canadian Muslim: Ft. Hood Was Jihad

Have you noticed that increasingly in the "age of Obama" Americans have to turn to other English language news outlets to read the truth about our own country? MC has and is none too pleased about it although grateful the internet hasn't been taken over by the thugs in DC.

A friend of this blog brought to our attention a brave, honest column about the Ft. Hood murders and its fundamental motivation. Salim Mansur is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Kindly click on the title of this post to read his excellent article that was recently run in the Edmonton Sun newspaper. You'll be both glad you did and left wondering why we don't read anything like this in the drive by media.

Hat tip: She knows who she is.

Conservative Women Strike Fear Into Liberal America

We noticed, heh. Click on the title of this post to read the article in The Guardian (UK).

Hat tip: Drudge Report

But These Leaders Don't Hate Their Own Country

President Obama vs. The Rest of the World Greeting The Emperor of Japan (Photos)
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert


King of Morocco


Dick Cheney


Prime Minister Slovenia


President South Korea


President Kazakhstan


Prime Minister India


Vladimir Putin


President Obama...

NEW VIDEO of the Obama bow here: at hotairpundit

Does The Man-child Know Nothing?

MC doesn't know what's worse: Barry at home or abroad. Is it 2012 yet?

For Hugh, Sebastian & Max

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"I Want To Be A Part Of It, New York!"

What on earth is wrong with our government? Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (that word again) and four other cretins are to be tried in New York City and in a civil proceeding. Is it the opposite of Sally Fields? "You hate us; you really, really hate us!"

MC can't help but notice that this development was announced while the Vapid One is out of the country. What purpose is served by having these men return to the scene of their horrific crime? Most New Yorkers are democrats so why the affront? Of course, the rest of the country is entitled to feel affronted as well but the sting has to be acute in Manhattan and the other boroughs.

"Obama, speaking to reporters in Japan on the first day of an eight-day overseas trip, declined to comment extensively on the decisions, saying Attorney General Eric Holder would hold a news conference later in the day." Unreal; the President doesn't really even take responsibility for this decision and lets others further down the food chain explain. This is leadership?

Click on the title of this post to read the Washington Post's coverage.