Frankly, a punch to the face would be a more pointed, appropriate, and satisfying solution (let’s call it “The Buckley Gambit”) — after all, this guy is essentially making the public pronouncement that TEA Partiers are would-be lynchers, setting the stage for racial distrust in the course of what is a perverse and functional libel — but then, I’m just a crazed violent pseudo-intellectual psychopath who gets off on a

Must be part of that new Administration promise to roll back regulations and strengthen the private sector. Couple this with what’s happening at Boeing and Gibson, and what is going on here is clear: the Administration is convinced it can continue the move toward democratic socialism while staving off criticism by manufacturing the perception that it is fiscally responsible and pro-business, aided in this effort by a compliant advocacy press

Stay classy, Marxist. So, let’s get this straight: So perfunctory is Obama’s groundbreaking “jobs” speech that he didn’t feel the need to cut short his vacation to the Vineyard — lobster and golf and yachting and wine parties being necessary markers for setting the parameters of who counts as a legitimate member of the leadership class and what hickish bits of flyover country trash, with their elk burgers and light

Watched Miller’s Crossing last night for the first time in years. One of the best American films ever made, in my estimation. Not only that, but it turns 21 this year. I hope it celebrates by tossing a couple of chunky ice cubes into a tumbler and then pouring in two fingers of whiskey. That’s the rumpus.

More “progressive” attempts to marginalize dissenters of the Great Leap Forward. Fervent partisan racists. CNS: When asked questions about the president’s upcoming speech on jobs and economic growth yesterday, White House Spokesperson Jay Carney claimed that only the most ‘fervent partisan’ would suggest the 8 million plus jobs lost in this recession were lost because of actions Barack Obama took. [Carney, in response to Norah O’Donnell]: “Since this President’s economic

First heard this on Mark Levin, but here’s the video (courtesy of The Blaze), just so you know who it is we’re up against. Keep in mind as you listen to/watch these clips, this rhetoric isn’t coming from Farrakhan from his “pulpit,” or from Sharpton figureheading a store front wilding: these are US Congressmen, and their attacks and accusations are against US citizens engaged in peaceful assembly for the purpose

Allan Lichtman, the American University professor whose election formula has correctly called every president since Ronald Reagan’s 1984 re-election, has a belated birthday present for Barack Obama: Rest easy, your re-election is in the bag….Lichtman developed his 13 Keys in 1981. They test the performance of the party that holds the presidency. If six or more of the 13 keys go against the party in power, then the opposing party

A bit wordy, that title, wouldn’t you say? Here, allow me: “Obama routinely bypasses Congress, conservatives say” You’re welcome. (h/t JD)

Ramesh Ponnuru: Controversy over whether our corporate taxes are high or low is matched by controversy over who pays them in the first place. This issue recently made the news when Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney informed a heckler that people pay the corporate income tax. But which people? The Congressional Budget Office and the Treasury Department have traditionally assumed that owners of capital pay the tax. More recent models,

A most ringing indictment on our political culture is the extent to which Powell and Fitzgerald are held up as heroes and, I’ll say it, honorable men — to the point where we’re to care who an opportunistic “Republican” like Powell is going to vote for in 2012, having publicly supported a left-wing socialist in 2008. That Scooter Libby was prosecuted while Richard Armitage wasn’t even been sanctioned for what