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Cold Crush the Opposition

If instinct alone isn't telling you that Russian hip-hop is cringe-inducingly awful, perhaps this Reuters story, detailing some ridiculous music awards show in Moscow attended by Vladimir Putin, will do the trick. It recounts the Beatles-like ...

From MICHAEL C. MOYNIHAN, Hit and Run,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: MTV,  Outkast,  Wu-Tang Clan,  LL Cool J

Eric's Just Asking Questions

I bet Libertymike will think this post is fueled by Moynihan's envy of Beck. Or Cartman. Something like that, anyway. reply to this When Southpark FAILED to deliver us an illustrated depiction of Mohammed in their episode about a fictional ...

From MICHAEL C. MOYNIHAN, Reason,  12 Nov 2009

We Don't Do Backlashes

There has already been enough blogger outrage and cable host sputtering on the absurd notion that Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) when he shot 40 people last week at Ft. Hood, Texas, despite the ...

From MICHAEL C. MOYNIHAN, Reason,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Nidal Malik Hasan,  Barack Obama,  George R Tiller,  Fred Phelps,  Osama bin Laden

The Cold War Ended For Some

But not for Cubans. The Miami Herald reports that Cuban blogger Yaoni Sanchez, one of Time's "heroes and pioneers" of 2008, was beaten and detained by the secret police, though fails to mention that her free health care will cover all injures ...

From MICHAEL C. MOYNIHAN, Reason,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sean Penn

The Most Vile Column of the Day: Berlin Wall Edition

Nothing, alas, on those hideous dictatorships toppled twenty years ago today. No Stasi, no Securitate, no KGB. Not a peep about Lubyanka, Berlin-Hohenschönhausen, or Kolyma. Perhaps on the anniversary of Dachau's liberation, the Times can solicit ...

From MICHAEL C. MOYNIHAN, Hit and Run,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company,  David Irving,  The New Republic,  Andrew Sullivan

A Revolution in Europe

In the latest print edition of The New Republic (not online, alas), Anne Applebaum reviews Christopher Caldwell's new book on Islam and Europe, Reflections on a Revolution in Europe. I read it a few months ago and happily noticed that, unlike ...

From MICHAEL C. MOYNIHAN, Reason,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Anne Applebaum,  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The Party of Discipline

I have been bleating on about this since theater critic Frank Rich's intemperate-stroke-incoherent column about the "Stalinists" opposing Dede Scozzfava, but here is yet another example of a sinister political party purging its more moderate ...

From MICHAEL C. MOYNIHAN, Reason,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mary Landrieu,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party

About Last Night: Lefties and Limbaughism

After that insufferable morning of spin—everyone is claiming victory, no one conceding defeat—perhaps it is time to warn our friends on the left to avoid that most hideous post-election Limbaughism. Let us remember that after McCain's 2008 defeat, ...

From MICHAEL C. MOYNIHAN, Hit and Run,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  John McCain,  U.S. Democratic Party,  White House,  Barack Obama

One Man's Judas, Another Man's Purged Moderate

Nothing but worthless Twitter chatter from NY-23, but watching the Obama partisans on MSNBC bemoan the GOP's supposed surrender to the extreme "teabaggers," those who ran a "moderate" Republican like Dede Scozzafava out of the race in a quest for ...

From MICHAEL C. MOYNIHAN, Reason,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  MSNBC,  Barack Obama,  Twitter Inc,  Dede Scozzafava

Driven Crazy

The libertarian journalist and satirist P.J. O’Rourke is a correspondent for The Atlantic, the H.L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute, a contributor to magazines ranging from Rolling Stone to The American Spectator, and the ...

From MICHAEL C. MOYNIHAN, Reason,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Cato Institute,  Federal Reserve,  BMW,  Honda

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