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That Egyptian river ran through Columbia Heights today : Don't Blame the Republican Party for the Rise of Trump Because he's the ...

I'm beginning to think I've been too generous in my assessment of the Republican Party. I assumed they had enough ward-heelers, shou...

Almost without my noticing it, David French has become the worst thing at National Review . Jonah Goldberg has, as we know, a distinguished ...

National Review God-botherer-in-residence David French tells us corporations are people -- and a buncha dang liberal people at that! He k...

David French seems to have taken over National Review 's Rod Dreher Chair for Manic Street Preaching. Today French tells us that some o...

Fuck it, this is still great. •     In the wake of Donald Trump's brief advocacy of "punishing" women who have abortion...

Some other folks wandered out of the National Review freak show tent looking spooked, so I wandered in and got a load of Kevin D. Williams...

Peter Beinart worries that The United States is headed toward a confrontation, the likes of which it has not seen since 1968, between lef...

That National Review broadside against Trump last month seems not to have done the trick, and the magazine's employees are hystericall...

The title -- " Sanders and Trump Have Risen from the Wreckage of a Broken Culture " -- makes it look like yet another of those &qu...

A U.S. Navy vessel floated into Iranian waters and was detained by Iran along with its sailors, who were fed and sheltered for 16 hours and ...

Hee hee. Hee hee hee. Hee hee hee hee hee hee hee  Ah, I see their tweets are slowing down: And getting pissy: ...

Now that the Republican Presidential front-runner has anted up his bigotry , conservatives are trying harder to disown him. But it really cu...

You have probably seen some of the rightwing hate-ons for Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me  in recent months.  National Review...

THE YAM IS THE POWER THAT BE •    The right-wing commentariat has gone absolutely bonkers over the college kids with their microaggress...

Yeah, one-hit wonders. But what a hit!  •    Quentin Tarantino pissed off some cops , so David French of National Review went argh li...

You may have noticed the statistical review on white working class mortality covered by the Washington Post : The mortality rate for white...

The saga of Kim Davis, bigot-martyr, and her pig-eyed enablers has ascended into legend : Of the two presidential contenders who atten...

David French has always been -- or has been at least since first I encountered his terrible columns at National Review -- tightly wound, b...