The Quotable Thugocracy

See Dubya has a nifty new video on change...that’s not so much of a change, with a soundtrack courtesy of Shirley Bassey (hence the above title). Someone should redo her Goldfinger theme: Ohbaaaahma.....He’s the man, the man with the radical friends! Meanwhile, Ed Morrissey spots s ome more history repeating , with someone infinitely less exciting than a SPECTRE villain: Mario Cuomo, whom Obama may have borrowed the boilerplate for his latest speech. And speaking o... more

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Victor Davis Hanson finds Strange New Respect for Hillary Clinton, but notes the poison pill she’s planted to wind down her her campaign: Her bizarre offer to serve as VP, contrary to popular opinion, was a brilliant (if Byzantine) political move: she knows that she has earned the slot but that the Obamas don’t want her "dream ticket"; so now the onus is on them if they reject her "generous" and most logical offer, and only blame will follow if the Democrats stumble in the... more

Kathleen Parker has a sense of deja vu:I was reading Jeffrey Toobin’s New Yorker profile of political spinmeister Roger Stone and thinking, hmmmmm. Where have I read this before? And then I remembered. Matt Labash wrote a very long profile of the very same Roger Stone for The Weekly Standard last November and a follow up in January of this year. I dug up the profile to check my memory and remembered why I remembered it. The profile was mentioned everywhere, including David Brooks’s year-end... more