Male hubris and the pernicious culture of virility on full display: A high school baseball team in California was in its final practice of the season Tuesday when they heard loud screeching, followed by a young girl screaming. In the parking lot next to the baseball field of Valley High School in Elk Grove, a mother, who was dropping her daughter off for an after-school program, accidentally put her car
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If any of you are interested in purchasing one of those Molon Labe shirts advertised on the right side bar (which really are nice; I own one), you should probably do it within the next week. My one non-Chinese advertiser gave it a go for a month here and it didn’t work out, so it’s back to payday loan links and empty space for the once mighty pw. Oh. And
Ezra Klein tries valiantly to defend the IRS
From the 60s hippies and their influential spokespeople hoping to “raise consciousness” and stick it to the Man — they despised attempts to curtail their freedom and the overweening dictates of a bourgeois establishment, with its ossified mores and stultifying religious traditions, they told us, even as they took over the universities and gave us speech codes and political correctness, anti-foundationalism and post-modern relativism — the trajectory of the “transgressive”
Thoughts that should keep you awake at night, 6
If John Boehner knew about the Benghazi emails in March and yet was still refusing to call for a special committee with subpoena power to investigate what it turns out were the murders of American heroes, left alone on a rooftop to die, that our government could potentially have prevented — against the protests of many in his own caucus, most notably Rep Frank Wolf — he is 1) either
The “I’ve reached the point where I just cannot be shocked by anything” Open Thread … [Darleen Click] UPDATED
Let’s see now, quick takes: Shooting at Mom’s Day Parade in New Orleans Nepotism? What Nepotism? Debbie Wasserman-Schultz wants you to celebrate Mother’s Day by signing an online card for Michelle Obama. Do remember to provide your email and OFA will follow up to get your donation. Saturday Night Live feels that Gregory Hicks is Jodi Arias or something. Aaron Blake of WaPo “Too bad about that IRS thing. Oh
To all you breeders out there, and you know who you are … [Darleen Click]
Happy Mother’s Day
“IRS watchdog: Senior IRS officials knew in 2011 tea parties’ tax-exempt status being targeted”
FOX/AP: Senior Internal Revenue Service officials knew agents were targeting tea party groups as early as 2011, according to a draft of an inspector general’s report obtained by The Associated Press that seemingly contradicts public statements by the IRS commissioner. […] The agency blamed low-level employees, saying no high-level officials were aware. But on June 29, 2011, Lois G. Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt organizations, learned
“All they want to do is have their little guns”
“Confiscate, confiscate, confiscate.” NJ Reps Loretta Weinberg (D-37), Sandra Cunningham (D-31), and Linda Greenstein (D-14), Nellie Pou (D-35) find your insistence that you wish to keep your “little guns” rather abhorrent and pitiful. As they make clear in captured audio turned over to a New Jersey Second Amendment group, who posted it to YouTube. You gun clingers and Second Amendment absolutists don’t care about keeping guns out of the hands
Can’t anybody here play this game, #659?
The last thing you want to do, Obama, is anger senior Republican leadership: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is calling on the Obama administration to conduct a government-wide probe in the wake of an admission by the Internal Revenue Service that it targeted conservative groups. […] McConnell says the admission is proof that his earlier concerns were well founded, adding the White House needs to review the agency’s actions.
