If you ever needed a definition for “spin”, this is it. In response to the news today that the economy contracted -.1 percent in the final quarter of last year, Democrats are touting the claim that this is “the best-looking contraction in U.S. GDP you’ll ever see.” The claim was originally made by chief U.S. economist for Capital… Read More A Few More Contractions, and the Economy Will Really Be Rolling!
Over at Protein Wisdom, a former Marine and gun store owner speaks a few truths. Writes Jeff: Unfortunately, we’ve become expert, as a popular and political culture, at pretending we haven’t encountered those very truths we continue to molest — all in an effort to will new truths into being out of something so gossamer… Read More The Irrelevance of Conservative Despair
By embodying it… Too good to pass up, as they say. As is the pretzel logic of those grasping to give Gregory a pass. If you start wondering why journalists seem to have some kind of a pass to break the law, and what constitutes a “journalist,” and even what distinguishes them from “swine,” you… Read More David Gregory Confronts White Privilege
“Guns are Bad. M’kay? The NRA defends guns. They’re bad. Because Guns are bad. M’kay? Putting armed guards in schools is bad. Because they’ll have guns. And Guns are bad. M’kay? The Second Amendment is real bad. Because the NRA likes the NRA. And the NRA is bad, so the Second Amendment must be bad.… Read More A Sober and Objective Summation of The Media Response to the NRA Presser…
Patrick Moran, who gained himself some notoriety when he was caught in a video sting conspiring to steal hundreds of votes in Virginia, just got severely punished for beating the ever-loving crap out of his girlfriend. And by severely punished, I mean plead down to minor assualt and given probation. If you’re outraged by this,… Read More New Victories in the War on Women
Let us all stomp, like Stacy McCain, like Andy at Ace, upon the socialist fallacy of the day: @mattyglesias The concept of “redistribution” falsely implies that the existence of property is prior to the existence of the state.#mythofownership I assume this to be a commonplace on the Left: that property cannot exist absent the state,… Read More Matt Yglesias Never Watched The Wire
I have, thanks to Stacey McCain’s Championing, finally broke down and bought a copy of Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72. So far it’s better than the Las Vegas drug trip, because it’s actually about something of general interest (what, Vegas was square in ’71? Say it ain’t so!) and thus the purple-toned yammering is… Read More How the Liberal Media Works
Stacy McCain offers up the new attack ad. You can demagoge about corporate fatcats until Demosthenes himself says “Dude, we get it,” and people play right along. But when you ask the question: “So what’s the government going to do that’s any better?” You won’t get an answer that makes any sense. We have an… Read More Romney Concludes That People Dislike The Government More than Bain Capital…
Jeff Goldstein describes the new racial show trials. In a campaign reminiscent of the Soviet show-trials of the late 1930′s, where the “enemies of the People” publicly confessed their “crimes” against the Soviet, The University of Minnesota – Duluth (UMD) is actually sponsoring a campaign, declaring “whites” the enemy of the people and showing these enemies confessing their crimes of… Read More Another Opportunity for Honkies to Express their Superiority Over the Wrong Kinds of White People
They used to say that about Harry Truman.
Content Blues 