Heartland Institute Crashes Through The Overton Window

A Heartland Institute billboard along Chicago’s Eisenhower Expressway Last October, in Twilight Zone Candidates, we noted that the then current crop of GOP presidential candidates were forced to out-crazy each other in order to secure the support of the extremist wing of the Rethuglican electorate. We agreed with the conventional wisdom that once the nomination was settled, as it is …

Twilight Zone Candidates

Watching the likes of  Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, and Newt Gingrich these days, I feel like I’ve been ‘ported to The Twilight Zone.  In the classic intro to the original Rod Serling series,  the shattering window pane is the Overton Window of radical right wing craziness, pushed off the edge of the …

Afutilestan IX (Update)

US taxpayers funding the killing of its own troops [Note: The arguments of my previous eight Afutilestan diaries explaining why the continuing and escalating presence of US troops in Afghanistan is doomed to fail are incorporated herein.] So what’s new since my last quagmire update? Last night the House approved another $30 billion in military spending in Afghanistan, on top …

Laura Ingraham: Right Into Teh Crazy Zone

Instead of Rod Serling standing invitingly at the crossroads of reality and the twilight zone, the wingut universe sees instead Yogi Berra and taken his legendary advice: When you come to a fork in the road, take it. Right into teh crazy zone. Exhibit One: Laura Ingraham’s appearance Sunday on This Week With George Stepanopolus Too cowardly to make her …

Attacking Obama From the Twilight Zone

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices – to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own. -Rod Serling, “The …