Paranoia strikes deep Into your mind it will creep It starts when you’re always afraid Step out of line, the man come and take you away. If the threat is accurately assessed, can it be considered paranoia? Bookworm has a solid rant about how the IRS Scandal is the worst Scandal in US Political history.… Read More Breathed There a Tyrant Who Did Not Claim Democracy?
C.S. Lewis once wrote: Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad as it was made out. Is one’s first feeling “Thank God, even they aren’t quite so bad as that,” or… Read More TROLOLOLOLOLOL
Bureaucrats are generally dis-inclined to take the heat for politicians. The blue-on-blue is particuarly encouraging. Is this a function of Obama’s declining coattails, as donkeys seek distance in preparation for 2014? I wonder how long before Obama feels the need to throw Hillary — or some other mucky-mucks at State — under the bus? Jammie-Wearing… Read More I Do Believe Benghazi Just Flipped From “Not Going Away” to “Quite Uncomfortably Here”
I don’t know anything about the UK Independence party, but Russel Taylor casts it in very Tea Partyish terms. The Tories have responded by insisting UKIP has no real policies, to which I would say that this hasn’t held them back. Their ragtag combination of Keynesianism and liberal dogma doesn’t represent a coherent response to the mess… Read More Russell Taylor – In praise of UKIP
Our Ruling Class is So Eminently Deserving Of Their Powers. Two police sources—a former gang investigator and a veteran detective—bluntly acknowledge that even if the police know of dubious dealings between an alderman and a gang leader or drug dealer, there is little, if anything, they can do, thanks to what they say is the… Read More Chicago: Where “Alderman” means the Same as “Godfather” means the same as “Baron”
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You are now officially bigots. We have a tendency to dismiss or marginalize people we don’t understand. We see women in polygamous marriages and assume they are victims. “They grew up in an unhealthy environment,” we say. “They didn’t really choose polygamy; they were just born into it.” Without question, that is sometimes true. But… Read More Notice to Everyone Who Said “Gay Marriage Will Not Lead to the Legalization of Polygamy.”
And Outrage becomes cliche. At different points during the day, I had the TV on three different cable channels: Fox News, CNN and MSNBC. None of them have covered themselves in glory — Allah has video of CNN’s Wolf Blitzer yammering pointlessly – but Chris Matthews was atrocious beyond description. The worst part of ideological cocooning lies in how… Read More A Bunch of People Violently Died, Which Means It’s Time for Chris Matthews to Beclown Himself.
Abortion is not new. It did not spring fully-formed from the head of the Supreme Court in 1973. It is as old as civilization itself, and the controversy surrounding it is just as old: “Why sow where the ground makes it its care to destroy the fruit? Where there are many efforts at abortion? Where… Read More Kermit Gosnell and the Holy of Holies
Iowahawk and Lisa DiPasquale echo Ben Howe in making a basic point that we have not yet internalized: So, to paraphrase Ben Howe’s point, if you want to make a good conservative movie, first, make a good movie. The same rule applies to humor: funny first, politics second. When it comes to gauging the impact of… Read More Rule #1 Of Conservative Media: Don’t Suck
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