Some things just can’t be tolerated, speech or no speech. But feel free to burn a flag. While wearing your Nixon mask. Or your Reagan mask. Or either of your Bush masks. And your Che Guevera shirt. To make a statement about the duality of man. In fact, fuck it: strap those masks onto some paper mache doll, put horns and a Hitler mustache on it, and then hang the

It’s rather sad that we’ve reached a time in our history as a republic that we have to literally celebrate a ruling that doesn’t find constitutional emanations or penumbras through which to actively deconstruct the original intent of constitutional language, rendering it, by clever recalibration, an embrace of textualism, and an acceptance of incoherent rules for what constitutes legitimate interpretation, a plaything of philosopher kings in black robes. But we’re

And why not? The GOP leadership — as it’s done with its phony, symbolic votes to repeal ObamaCare — has shown that it will engage in the theater of investigation and prosecution (perhaps), but it will never reach the higher ups, and a few scapegoats and some strong words of condemnation will be all that it musters, a show for the media and to gull GOP donors.   I mean,

Via Darleen: The gun-grabbers are really going all out here: A group of bills moving through California’s assembly and senate–including one to create a database for ammunition purchases–could create the strictest gun control laws of any state in the union. According the San Jose Mercury News, the bills being heard in the state senate on August 12 would create a database of all ammo purchases in the state, “make it

It’s a smart idea, though I would much prefer an amendment that did away with automatic withholdings. If people had an idea about what they were actually paying to the government — instead of falling into the status quo trap of simply accepting their take home pay as their take home pay (most people don’t even really do the math) — I suspect they’d quickly re-embrace the free market system,

Levin’s new book, The Liberty Amendments, debuts tomorrow — and he’s already bracing for a full-throated attack from the GOP establishment and the left, neither of which he believes will prove effective, given his avowed promise to return fire without sugar coating his thoughts. — Which sound vaguely familiar.    I mean, take away the millions in salary and the 8+ million listeners — and add hair and impressive physical strength

Two failed presidential elections later, is it safe to say that we’re beyond the unhelpful stage, and that further exposing what many of us — Rush Limbaugh (and credit where it’s due, Sean Hannity) among them — already knew about Obama and his political ideology before he was ever elected, is now allowable? I mean, we pretended it didn’t exist and showed our graciousness in defeat to the Good Man

As dicentra knows, her interlocutor’s “dialogue” is but a typical grad-level regurgitation of anti-foundationalism applied to politics in an effort to lazily and cleverly pull a PhD from the leftists who wish to see capitalism replaced by liberal fascism, which they will always claim is a stepping stone to egalitarian communism, but which never arrives there, given the necessity of the more clever pigs to manage the rest of the

I jumped in on an interesting an ultimately distressing little conversation on Twitter yesterday. Most of the exchange is here, including what came before I jumped in. (I haven’t read it all and don’t need the headache.) I’ve also inserted things that Twitter didn’t thread. My interlocutor, @SettlerColonial, is writing a PhD thesis, and we got into the nature of property rights. @SettlerColonial has stopped responding to my tweets, so

Establishment Republicans: we’re kinda like the Democrats, only our enemies actually register under our own party affiliation, if you can believe that. Ironic, eh? Here, let me diagram this on my Very Official Looking GOP white board: TEA Party Hobbits / Purists / True Believers / Ideological Visigoths = losing seats that might otherwise be held by more moderate Republicans. Plus, like, teabaggers. Gross, amiright? So it follows: More seats