Every now and then Pat Buchanan wakes up and decides to defend Hitler. Like Actual Hitler not just Synonym Hitler (Barack Obama).  Today is just such a day! Well, this new column is tied to the the extremely important and memorable 70th anniversary of Britain declaring its official involvement in WWII. (By the way if you’re thinking of doing something special, the traditional gift for 70 years is a bomb shelter… or possibly amethyst.) And speaking of Britain, why did Britain force Hitler to participate in the war and refuse his many sincere peace offerings? Why were they being such, like, Nazis about it? It’s a good question to ask, of History! And Pat Buchanan has the most retarded answers this side of AP Euro. MORE »

It was “only” 65 years ago when America seemed to be on the upswing, in large part because millions of World War II veterans got a paid college education and no-down low-interest mortgages. Less than five years after the formal end of the Great Depression, higher education and a modern home became reality for the very people who were starving and illiterate in the grim 1930s. And now, no thanks to “Country First” fraudster John McCain, a wonderful new GI Bill was welcomed today by draft-dodging Kenyan bounty hunter Barack Obama. America now has hope that the post-9/11 veteran will end up smart, comfortable and happy … and not some redneck racist wingnut terrorist mass-murderer like Timothy McVeigh. MORE »

George Will, the original bowtied conservative prick, uses his column today to predict that David Petraeus’ forthcoming report on the state of the Iraq War will lead to something he calls “a Weimar moment.” He refers to Germany between World Wars I and II, when the freewheelin’ liberal democratic government was undermined by the feelings of the people that the nation had been betrayed by their leaders. The Germans knew they were just one Surge away from winning The Great War, and to prove it they elected Hitler to kill all the gays and Jews and win them a second, Greater War. Will is pretty sure this will happen once General Petraeus tells Congress that we are kind of winning in Iraq next month. MORE »