A curious sentiment from a man whose accomplishments give nepotism a bad name. Write something intelligent--or a lot of things merely intelligible--before you offer advice. PS--Roger--the imbecile using 'hyperbole' was Goldberg, not Biden. Biden knows the meaning of hyperbole full well--Jonah is certainly correct about that. It might be useful to point out that hyperbole is exaggeration for effect, and does not cover 'lying.' Vote for those who tell the truth--give that a try. ice9

Equating Mann to a pedophile is low even for you. Five investigations (not 3) cleared Mann. They all called the complaints 'specious' and 'politically motivated.' It's not your choice to call this 5 straight whitewashes; you must, or you must admit you are wrong. The denialist's curse: you must always be right, or you have always been wrong. Every new study that fails to refute? another layer of conspiracy. Lindzen and Choi, dashed again--another layer. A new defection?--another layer troweled on to the tottering mess that is your denial logic. Every halfwit or bug-nuts christianist who equivocates in a debate--another layer. But here, there are not doubts. Everybody knows it to be true. We are sure. There's no risk. ice9

Goldberg's work can't stand up to any real scrutiny for logic or evidence. Here's today's edition: "Obama's not frittering away our enormous sacrifices in Iraq out of domestic political concerns and diplomatic ineptitude." Enormous sacrifices can't be frittered away. Frittering is for things we have, like treasure and human lives. Those were committed when we chose to invade Iraq; at that point the frittering commenced. Jonah wants to argue that Obama frittered away the gains from that sacrifice, but he can't because there are no gains other than the febrile, slightly damp joy that springs to the hearts of neoconservatives when bombs explode. ice9

"did little to stimulate the economy." Dumbledore would have asked an economist. They have all this evidence and stuff on the stimulus working, until it was gutted by nutcase republicans. Please, please please run on the stimulus failing. Please. ice

There was another presidential candidate who was also held to be stupid and not to be trusted with our nuclear arsenal who ultimately became president -- Ronald Reagan Grammar aside, look at this compelling evidence process! QED, because people thought Reagan was stupid and reckless. See! I know! Reagan wasn't stupid and wasn't reckless, so 1. Anybody who said he was is wrong for ever. 2. Anybody who said he wasn't is right for ever, too. Except...what about the evidence that Reagan was reckless and stupid? Putting aside for the moment the fact that evidence isn't relevant here, what about that evidence? He supported Saddam Hussein. He sold antitank missiles to Iran, and gave them a cake too. He raised taxes. He faded...

Roy, use of the word 'agenda' marks you as unlikely to be swayed by logic or evidence (just as hanging out deep in the threads on Town Hall does.) As for axes, I do indeed have a lot of speckles on my axe. I am determined to grind them off, though not in some manner of defense or argument with the likes of people who think an eye-roll and an agenda-reference and a couple of exclams is sufficient argument to resolve important issues in our culture and governance. If you agree with Prager, you are accepting the idea that Americans should be barred from voting on the basis of a claim that has been abundantly and thoroughly disproved: that there is widespread voter fraud in the US. So either you believe that it hasn't been disproved,...

I do not object; I favor it. The wealthy white men in question are the traditional students of Latin--those whose families can afford to send them to prestigious public or private prep schools (or they can get in to the ones that are merit-magnet, such as Boston Latin). In fact Latin is the kind of luxury that few public schools can afford, for a variety of reasons (none of which come anywhere near providing evidence for Prager's fatuous prating). If you were taught Latin in the last forty years in an average middle-American public school, you're lucky. By the way, I do not defend the community, administrative, and teaching staff decisions that led to the demise of Latin as a typical subject. I am in that industry, and I think...

Teaching Latin to wealthy young white men, you mean. A few charismatic teachers have great success with Latin in public schools, but generally you are correct though it's at least partly propter hoc if you ask me (and I've been teaching HS composition for nearly 30 years.) In any event it's absurd to initiate an argument about the nation's civil liberties based on one man's poor subject-verb agreement, especially when that man makes fifty times what Prager makes, and besides stands as a noble Randian god astride the marketplace. I suppose I should stop imagining that Prager's and Townhall's arguments have more to do with Townhall readers' needs to have their fragile, tortured, pampered worldview affirmed on a daily basis and less to...

"First, how is it possible for anyone to graduate an American elementary school, not to mention a high school or, most incredibly, attend college, and leave with an inability to conjugate the verb "to be"?" How can somebody get a job at TownHall yet botch a parallel construction so badly? Answer: Easy, if it's the same guy who offers a grammatical quibble taken from a closed-captioned TV interview as evidence to support random partisan tinkering with a central tenet of our democracy. Closed captioning does not faithfully capture what the speaker is saying. In fact, it's wildly inaccurate real-time transcription, mainly automated. Building a column around such an observation is obnoxious. Better evidence might be, say, a complete...

Those who have lived in the belly of the socialist beast clearly recognize those entrails in Barack Obama's endeavor to transform our nation. Vocab test: define the following socialist transform nation bonus: entrails (yeah, me too, but a test is a test.) To check your answers, have Mr. May convene his Committee of Definitions. You may submit evidence in defense of your answers, but it will be ignored. love to y'all ice