See? If we just legalize scandalous behavior, scandalous behavior is no longer scandalous but rather is legal.  QED! Now. What was it you wingnuts were saying about investigating the IRS again?  Because frankly, it looks to me like they were just doing their job  — in advance of it really being their job.  And that kind of go-getter attitude is what puts the “progress” in progressive! (h/t newrouter)

And?  Christ. You wingnuts and your paranoia: U.S. intelligence agencies last week urged the Obama administration to check its new healthcare network for malicious software after learning that developers linked to the Belarus government helped produce the website, raising fresh concerns that private data posted by millions of Americans will be compromised. The intelligence agencies notified the Department of Health and Human Services, the agency in charge of the Healthcare.gov

Sure, the Broncos lost the Super Bowl.  But meh.  Satchel took second place at States, beating the number 1 seed from Region 2 before losing in the finals to the same kid he lost to in the Regional finals, in what was a much better match, a fact not reflected in the score so much as it was in a move toward an elevated understanding of strategy and planning. In

Predictably, GOP establishment scions like Lisa Murkowski — and the academic and political leftwing scolds always on the lookout for dog whistled “racism” and “xenophobia” — were thrilled by the vacuous “inclusiveness” of the call to celebrating tribalism, balkanization, and the deterioration of a national identity of the kind that has kept the US the most tolerant country on earth, and away from situations seen in the UK or Paris

… and honestly, why the hell wouldn’t you have, Bill O’Reilly — whose politics are to “conservatism” as FOX News is to TEA Party boosterism — did his yearly big “get” interview with Obama the Boy King, and when asked by O’Reilly about the IRS targeting of conservative groups, the President responded in a way that we’ve become accustomed to, as RSM notes:  it didn’t happen, and the debate on

And not a moment too soon.  My consistently ignored voice is more important to ignore now than ever.  And what better way to make sure that happens than to give me money to blow either on X (which will keep me away from the computer, except of course from porn sites) or else a new set of all-season tires for my now 20-year-old Wrangler Sahara (which will keep me busy

This was forwarded along to me by serr8d, likely for the ungodly, almost transcendental irony: “GOP Declaration of ‘Principles’ Regarding Immigration” I guess I need to do a post on the new GOP “Declaration of Principles” that says we will give illegals a “probationary” status that we will never ever ever take away for any reason, as long as something something border security. So, here is the post. Republicans have