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Bad Man: "I am Not Sorry the CIA Waterboarded"

Hamilton Nolan · 12/16/14 12:35PM

Bret Stephens, the deputy editorial page editor for the Wall Street Journal and recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, is a fundamentally bad person, as he explains in his newspaper column today.

David Brooks Knows Some Guys

Hamilton Nolan · 11/14/14 09:57AM

Well-moisturized Republican David Brooks fancies himself a bit of a social scientist. Not really in the sense of like, doing science. More in the sense of "knowing some guys."

Peggy Noonan's Ebola Fever Dream

Hamilton Nolan · 10/10/14 12:11PM

Breathy Reaganite Peggy Noonan is more than a doddering captive of her own apartment, peeking around corners for imaginary spirits that haunt her. She is also an expert on infectious disease screening processes. And a land, that we call, America.

Richard Cohen Calls for Perpetual World War

Hamilton Nolan · 09/09/14 12:45PM

Good writer and smart man Richard Cohen is taking Obama to task for forgetting one important lesson that smart people like Richard Cohen know: the United States of America must be at war with lots of countries at all times.

Hamilton Nolan · 07/16/14 08:11AM

"Sarah Palin is right," begins today's column by Ruth Marcus, who is one of the most under-criticized bad newspaper columnists in the United States of America.

Peggy Noonan Is a Normal American

Hamilton Nolan · 07/11/14 09:05AM

Peggy Noonan. An American. A normal American, breathing, watching, reading. Wandering, around her country. A watchful sentinel, proud and drunk. Must she feel shame, for being afraid of the young foreigners, infiltrating? Nay.