At the New York Post, Kyle Smith Affirms Everything I Could Have Expected About “The Newsroom.”

I didn’t mind The West Wing. Didn’t watch it a whole lot, but I didn’t mind it. The hero was a Democratic President, who was smart, sophisticated, and occasionally gutsy. The politics were blatant, but in a show about politics, they should have been. And Sorkin usually gave the Right its State of the Union Response.… Read More At the New York Post, Kyle Smith Affirms Everything I Could Have Expected About “The Newsroom.”

7 Jul 2012 AndrewLeave a comment

Why Brett Kimberlin is Important

I’ve mentioned this before, but it bears incessant repetition: Kimberlin is not merely a terrorist who uses the law to silence his opponents — he’s a terrorist who uses the law to silence his opponents and is one degree removed from the official Democratic party hierarchy. Which begs the question: who else is under the protective… Read More Why Brett Kimberlin is Important

7 Jul 2012 Andrew4 Comments

Conrad Black Says Some Rather Silly Things About the American Revolution

In National Review of all places. (h/t: Memeorandum) I’m skipping over the “you know, the wogs never had it so good as under the Raj” part of the article, and deal merely with this: The colonists had the better of the argument with the British, but individual Americans did not have substantively more liberties at… Read More Conrad Black Says Some Rather Silly Things About the American Revolution

4 Jul 20126 Jul 2012 Andrew2 Comments

The Star Wars That I Used To Know

We geeks are the majority. Happy Fourth.

4 Jul 2012 AndrewLeave a comment

A Viable Health-Care Reform Strategy

Keith Hennessy of the Hoover Institution has the skinny. Basically, we can repeal by reconciliation, but first we have to pass a damn budget. And then: Future Republican majorities can work with moderate Democrats to enact needed insurance market reforms and the bipartisan Wyden-Ryan Medicare reform plan, which provides a stronger system of competing private… Read More A Viable Health-Care Reform Strategy

3 Jul 2012 Andrew2 Comments

I Just Gave to the National Blogger’s Club

You should, too. We can pound the keyboards in limp frustration at the hollow-souled priests of Leviathan, or we can put our money where our mouth is. Or as Stacy McCain puts it: Tomorrow is Independence Day. Fight for your freedom.

3 Jul 2012 AndrewLeave a comment

Harriet Miers Would Not Have Saved Our Bacon, Or A Message to the Ignorami on My Side of the Aisle

Please shut up about Harriet Miers. Harriet Miers was not nominated for the post on the Supreme Court that went to John Roberts. Harriet Miers was nominated for the post that went to Samuel Alito, after conservatives had this reaction to Harriet Miers: So please stop all references to Miers vis-a-vis the ObamaCare ruling, such as… Read More Harriet Miers Would Not Have Saved Our Bacon, Or A Message to the Ignorami on My Side of the Aisle

3 Jul 2012 AndrewLeave a comment

David Frum Said Something Interesting…

Insert your own Mayan calendar joke here. Outages are not inevitable. The German power grid has outages at an average rate of 21 minutes per year. The winds may howl. The trees may fall. But in Germany, the lights stay on. There’s no Teutonic engineering magic to this impressive record. It’s achieved by a very… Read More David Frum Said Something Interesting…

3 Jul 2012 AndrewLeave a comment

Unintended Consequences, ObamaCare Edition

Jeff Goldstein embraces — outlaw-style — the new federal power to tax: Writing my congressman to demand that liberals be “taxed” for not carrying arms, going to church, and driving battered old F150s. You know, for the costs to society of not being prepared, conscienced, and self-reliant. Welcome to your bright tomorrow, comrade. Once you get the… Read More Unintended Consequences, ObamaCare Edition

2 Jul 2012 AndrewLeave a comment

My Publishing House Has a Name, and a Logo…

…and I think I’m about to start the paperwork on making it an LLC. One needs liability protection. The Name: Riposte Publishing The Logo: Eventually, it’s going to need its own web site, which I’ll probably create on WordPress.

29 Jun 2012 AndrewLeave a comment