While we’re on the subject of veteran actors thrust into oddly controversial roles, this is Ben Kingsley playing the villain in the upcoming “Iron Man 3”: His character is called The Mandarin. In the comics, he looks more like this:
In response to HISTORY Channel Releases Statement on Obama ‘Lookalike’ Satan Character: It takes a heck of an imagination, plus a massive inferiority complex, to look at the actor playing Satan for the History Channel and see Obama. I’m old
Dr. Ben Carson’s address to CPAC 2013 included his thoughts about how, if he were an enemy of America, he would set about destroying her. His plan had four points: 1. Create division among the people. 2. Encourage a culture
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s speech at CPAC 2013 was a strange performance. It seemed like it fell a bit flat with the audience. For some reason, he decided to devote an extraordinarily large chunk at the beginning to recycling his
In response to With ‘Skyfall’ James Bond is Finally Back: I also thought Skyfall was somewhat overrated, although its strengths were also clear to see. Every dollar of that budget was right up on the screen – few Bond movies
In response to American University Professor hate tweets Dr. Benjamin Carson: Besides being stupid and offensive, people like this are so drearily predictable. What a surprise it would be if they paid due respect to Dr. Carson and offered stimulating
In response to If Mark Kelly Was Attempting a Media Stunt…: I’ve been wondering about this since the moment I saw the Kelly AR-15 story. I also wonder what the point of this “stunt” was supposed to be. The system
In response to Media Sickened That Backwards New Pope Is Pro-Life, Pro-Traditional Marriage, Pro-God: Just wait until the media digests the new Pope’s views on abortion, which include a strong argument that pro-abortion Catholics should be denied communion: In an
In response to Stupid Plane Stunts: While you’re watching them melt the Blue Angels down into raw material for robot squirrels, paper clips to hold ObamaCare regulations, and luggage tags for the Royal Family’s next multi-million-dollar vacation, enjoy a laugh
In response to “(white) privilege” a socialist vision of equal outcome: Pursuant to your post about “white privilege” wristbands, David, it turns out there’s going to be a whole “White Privilege Conference” on April 14 at the University of Colorado.
In response to “(white) privilege” a socialist vision of equal outcome: I’ve not heard of these wristbands before, David. Thanks for the eye-opening post. It’s not easy to break the heavy crust of cynicism from my eyelids and blow them
… so please pay no attention to the indictment of devout Obama-worshiper Melowese Richardson of Cincinnati, Ohio, who was just indicted on eight counts of ballot fraud, six of them stemming from the six extra Obama votes she cast in
In response to Shared Sacrifice: Michelle Obama Should Cancel Her White House Birthday Bash: “It’s really odd that the Marxist drivel preached by President Obama time and time again is often eschewed by the First Lady, who never actually adheres
In response to Ted Cruz-Hispanic Vote Up for Grabs: I would love to hear your thoughts about why the Hispanic vote is generally trending Left, Javier. The old conventional wisdom held that their religious values would make then natural conservative
There’s a great tribute to Phyllis Schlafly over at Ace’s place, honoring her on International Woman’s Day, which strangely enough does not seem otherwise interested in honoring her. (And this year’s International Woman’s Day comes just as the left-wing leadership
In response to Jeb does the ‘Full Ginsburg + 1’: After a week of Rand Paul dominating the news, and rocking the Obama Administration back on its heels, what we clearly needed on Sunday was six shows filled with Jeb
In response to Chauncy Hagel on NK Threat: “We Are Aware of – of What’s Going On”: In other exciting foreign policy news, Debra, while the SecDef struggles to choke out a coherent sentence about clear reality and everything that
I knew I’d end up using the “Frum” category sooner or later, even though the default, and proper, response to David Frum is to ignore him until he goes away. I’m reminded of Iowahawk’s rule about captioning every New Yorker
In response to Where Exactly is the White House Making Sequester Cuts?: And meanwhile, you’ve got Eric Bolling and Sean Hannity making an utter fool of Obama by mounting a pledge drive to sponsor White House tours, while Speaker Boehner
In response to Crumbs in exchange for party unity: I suspect you’re right about the likely results of attempting to herd the GOP’s grassroots cats, with anything approaching the coordination Obama forced upon the gun control lobby. One might go
If you needed any further evidence of terrifying Obama State Department incompetence after the Benghazi debacle, the Samira Ibrahim saga should do it. She was due to be honored by Secretary of State John Kerry and First Lady Michelle Obama
Amazing Politico piece about gun control groups agreeing to fall in line, like good little soldiers, and mindlessly support whatever Obama does: The White House knew its post-Newtown effort would require bringing key gun-control groups into the fold. So the
In response to WH Concedes: President Does Not Have the Authority to Kill an American on U.S. Soil (Video): Darn it, and here you had John McCain and Lindsey Graham trying so very hard to tackle Rand Paul in their
In response to They’ve Already Done the “We’d Never Do this” Spiel: Among my biggest problems with the “We’d Never Do This” spiel is that you don’t usually find out they have done it to you until after they done
In response to This is Exciting: I share your feeling about the energy surrounding Rand Paul’s filibuster, Ace. Not to be a wet blanket, but I also remember how that Tea Party energy faded by 2012. It’s not gone completely
