I won’t reprise my linguistic argument  here– short version:  intentionalism! — to defend the name “Redskins,” initially meant as a honorarium for a Native American with whom the team’s founder was friendly, and now, a conventional referent to a DC football team, not to native Americans either in specifically or in the aggregate.  Because honestly, the current furor is just more PC bullshit meant to show private industry that politicians

Happy Memorial Day, soldiers!  This failure to pass was, of course, the fault of the GOP-run House, who pushed the bill through with bipartisan support.  Thing is, had they been thinking correctly, they could have named the legislation the “Koch Brothers Accountability and Offer to Drop Dead” bill, and it would have whisked right through the Senate, likely with McCain, Graham, Alexander, and a number of others joining the Dems

Rather than take down Ezra Klein my own self (I’ve done that enough over the years, so much so that it seems less than sporting at this point) or quote at length Ron Fournier’s takedown of Ezra Klein (because that means linking to the National Journal, which has lurched left, even as it now tries to walk back its earlier lightbringer cultishness), I’ll instead quote Jim Geraghty’s referencing of Fournier’s

From pre-dawn raids by body armor-adorned federal agents that result in the loss of livelihood and eventual lawfare that strips citizens of their savings in order that they may protect themselves from dubious arrest and prosecution, to bonds issued that, as part of the price of freedom, require that the truth (or at least, one first-hand account of events) be suppressed, we are living in what can only be described

Which, translated into Swedish, goes something like this:  sure, it’s true.  But when the truth proves potentially explosive — literally! — it needs to be criminalized.  For the Greater Good. Reached for comment, Swedish Supergroup Abba noted, “Really?  And here I thought we were Sweden’s most famous pussies.” (h/t sdferr)

Jeff G, As you know, my friend and colleague Mitch McConnell has just won the Kentucky Republican Primary and is poised to become the next Majority Leader of the United States Senate. Mitch has boldly led the Republicans in the Senate against Barack Obama’s liberal agenda and he needs your help to keep the fight going against Harry Reid, President Obama, and their hand-picked candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes in November.

Sure.  He can be occasionally effective, when aimed at the proper targets.  But let’s not forget:  this guy is poison. A wacko bird.  Unhelpful.  A presumptuous junior Senator whom the left demonizes and whom career GOP politicians rightly despise and seek to weaken, mucking up as he does their opportunities to reach the great Moderate Middle of the country’s electorate that has been so very crucial in getting Presidents Gerald

As RI Red writes in his email, “what could possibly go wrong?”  WaPo: Here’s an accepted fact: Retirement is broken for most Americans. The traditional defined-benefit pension plan has all but disappeared, leaving most with just a 401(k) plan through their employer — and only half the country has those at all. Since people stay in jobs for much shorter periods, they end up with pots of money stashed in

I say “fifth” because the Arab world, who notoriously have followed the tactics and rhetoric of the Nazis in their war against Jews, is the fourth reich. Whereas the fifth seems to be coalescing here in the US — not so much among the Klan or neo-Nazi groups, whose reach is minimal and whose tactics are often boorish; but rather among the left and higher ups in the Democratic Party