A Twitter conversation about Nirvana and whether the rock act was overrated resulted in this blog post by Sean Hackbarth:
A Twitter chat tonight with @LizMair, @ToddThurman, @CalebHowe, and others involved the supposed greatness of Nirvana. There’s no doubt they altered popular music for the better when Nevermind was unleased in 1991. But they’re also the most overrated band in [...]

“I just watched John King’s report, that’s the first time I saw Brown headquarters. Wow! It looks like a party there.”
- CNN’s Jessica Yellin (reported by Jonah Goldberg)
Scott Brown wins! Time to do a shameless happy dance!
By a decisive margin, Mr. Brown defeated Martha Coakley, the state’s Democratic attorney general, who had been considered [...]

From Jim Geraghty in National Review’s Morning Jolt:
Politico: “President Barack Obama plans a combative response if, as White House aides fear, Democrats lose Tuesday’s special Senate election in Massachusetts, close advisers say.”
Well, we didn’t really expect humility, did we?
Great to know, Mr. President, that Iran shot protesters dead in the streets and beat the hell [...]

The issue is slowly attracting the attention of responsible people on the political right. Ryan Mauro explains the appeal of a group like the John Birch Society but stresses teaming up with the organization just provides ammo to critics.
…the jokes will practically write themselves as the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) takes place [...]

Kathryn Lopez of National Review Online heard from a couple of readers trying to contact their senators regarding health care:
Monday, December 21, 2009

Good Luck with That   [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
Here’s another:
And for days all of our emails to Senators Kohl and Feingold have bounced back: inbox full!

Jim Geraghty at National Review Online looks at the self-appraisal of President Barack Obama as his first year comes to a close. Obama gives himself a B+. Geraghty wonders if a D+ would have meant mass Zombie outbreaks.
Put another way, in Obama’s eyes, this year was almost as good as it gets.

As regular readers are aware, I am not a fan of Ayn Rand, and I agree with almost everything Peter Wehner wrote below for The Corner at National Review Online. But I absolutely loved Jonah Goldberg’s response which I put at the end.
Objectively, Ayn Rand Was a Nut [Peter Wehner]
According to Politico.com, Ayn Rand [...]

In this week’s column for the Waukesha Freeman, I took a look at Archbishop Rembert Weakland’s “revelation” (coming soon in book form) that he is a homosexual.
The news broke this week that former Archbishop Rembert Weakland is coming out with a new book in June in which he comes out of the closet to announce [...]

Let’s start by congratulating the US Navy in it’s incredible rescue of Captain Richard Phillips. Congratulations also goes to President Obama’s administration. While Obama didn’t “order” the attack as some news reports have suggested, making sure the Navy had the authorization to use force if necessary was a political risk. Had it [...]

Why don’t they fight?
Last week at a town hall meeting with Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, the theme seemed to be one of frustration, including with the Republican Party. I wrote my column for the Waukesha Freeman (two quarters and its yours) on that very subject:
While the audience was politically right of center, judging from the applause [...]