I tweeted about this earlier today, but it bears shouting from the rooftops. How heinous do you have to be before someone besides Breitbart notices the assured ease with which you throw racial slurs at people? A credentialed reporter for one of the oldest American newspapers asks a public figure a question on a public… Read More Holy Crap, is Alec Baldwin Racist
Roger King wins Twitter: Via Stacy McCain, who’s been beating on the Menendez scandal like it owes him money. Gah! Originally wrote Cruz instead of Rubio. Derp.
No, really. 7 Things Democrats Would Have Freaked Out About If Bush Had Done Them Totally on point, even if the gag is repeating. What it Feels Like Being a Conservative On the Internet This is just satisfying.
True Story. We are the party that adheres to the Constitution. We will not let the liberals tread on the Second Amendment! We will fight to defend the entire Bill of Rights from the right to trial by jury to the right to be free from unlawful searches. We will stand up against excessive government… Read More When Rand Paul Feels Sad, He Stops Being Sad and is Awesome Instead.
Apparently The New Republic that insists that everyone else should “diversify” would like to be free to make up its own mind about putting any of those filthy minorities on staff. Apparently diversity-efforts are things Other People must do — never people who Dylan Byers works for, or may work for at some point down… Read More Ace Excorciates The White Republic
So Sayeth Breibart. What Karl Rove and company did last week in the New York Times, claiming that their new “Conservative Victory Project” would cure the ills of a disappointing campaign cycle, is laughable. The so-called “Conservative Victory Project” is nothing more than an attempt by establishment Republicans to cull the conservative movement. Why does Rove think he has… Read More The Civil War Has Begun
It’s not a bad idea. Containment was more than just a military strategy; it was a holistic assessment of the weakness of the Soviet Union, an assessment that turned out, on the whole, to be right. In Kennan’s famous X article he argues that containment meant the “application of counter-force at a series of constantly shifting geographical… Read More Rand Paul Suggests the Containment Strategy for Islamic Terror
Thank goodness we’ve got all the important problems dealt with, so we can focus on the miasmic “rapiness” of car ads. As part of a discussion on the elements of a story (protagonist, conflict, theme, etc), I showed my students — all of whom are girls — this ad. They all saw it during the… Read More How You Know There’s Nothing “Rapey” About the Audi Super Bowl Ad
French President “shocked.” They always are.
You can’t make these things up. Between 2003 and 2011, 4,265 people were murdered in the city of Chicago. In 2012 alone, 512 people were murdered in the city. Operation Enduring Freedom, the name for the war in Afghanistan, which started Oct. 7, 2001, has seen a total of 2,166 killed. The war has been… Read More Chicago Twice as Dangerous as Afghanistan
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