Snark of the Day: James Taranto

[Ron] Paul blames Lincoln for the Civil War rather than blaming the South for starting a war to preserve slavery. Does he love liberty? Or does he merely loathe the federal government?

James Taranto:  Opinion Journal.

Addendum: (Bit)

Heh…

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan —Fox News- Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in a homicide attack that also killed at least 20 others at a campaign rally.Bhutto was shot in the neck and chest as she was entering her vehicle,

While Gallup’s most recent poll… and the “reporting” thereof… centered on the idea that Hillary Clinton has passed Oprah Winfrey as the most admired woman…. (Nobody asked me…)   Ron Coleman over at Right Wing News reports there’s a little

Via Memeorandum, I find this.. which I take as evidence that the left is still engaged in anti-Jewish knee-jerking. No wonder they like Ron Paul.

And yes, Miss Mannered, I mean you.

And no, this wasn’t your fisrt time

Steve LeBlanc reports on the end of fifteen billion dollar hole in the gronnd.

BOSTON (AP) – When the clock runs out on 2007, Boston will quietly mark the end of one of the most tumultuous eras in

Michael S. Barr in The New York Times, today:

WHILE the causes of the mortgage crisis are myriad, a central problem was that many borrowers took out loans that they did not understand and could not afford.

Yep. But what

Michelle, today:

Environmental busybodies never take a vacation. The lead letter on Christmas day at the San Francisco Chronicle echoed dim bulb Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels’ recent “Stop global warming and buy CFLs or Santa will DIEDIEDIE!”

Flim flam artists are always trying to seperate a fool from his money.  

Case one, I ran with with this story on 28 October, but it bears repeating:

When Nomatter Tagarira, a spirit medium, claimed that she could conjure

Mrs. Clinton claims to have experience, in something besides baking cookies.  Yet her claims of experience are more akin to fish stories.   On Townhall, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, are calling B.J. and Mrs. Clinton liars, “Hillary Had

To say it’s a slow political day, this Christmas Day, is understating it by several factors of scale.  Example… When I see CNN’s political ticker, by way of Memeorandum pointing out that President Bush gave his wife a purse for

A thank you note from Kyle-Anne Shiver, American Thinker to our troops:

One of the most gratifying things of all is that they know we love them and that we care about every single hair upon their heads in harms

From both DavidL and myself… Please accept our warmest wishes for the Christmas season.

I wanted to pass along a couple of pictures that were passed along to me by readers last year. I never got the chance to use them last season because I didn’t see them until well after new year’s. But

Glenn:

THIS SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT:

“If a nuclear war between Israel and Iran were to break out 16-20 million Iranians would lose their lives – as opposed to 200,000-800,000 Israelis, according to a report recently published by the Washington-based Center

In 1992, B.J. Clinton campaigned on a “Middle Class Tax Cut.”

In 2000, John Edwards promised to make Christopher Reeves walk again.

Now Michael McAuliff, Daily News(NY), reports Mrs. William Clinton is promising “Elect me and oil prices