Almost a tech fall but not quite. Too bad. Would have made the domination that much more complete. I post this here for several reasons, first, because the people voting it down on YouTube are precisely the types who love them some Daily Show and believe they’ve cornered the market on contemporary humor (well, save for the redneck variety, which they sneer at); and secondly, because the disclaimer attached to

But remember, you aren’t “allowed” to suggest that the 24/7 cable news fixation on the terrorist manhunt in Boston — coupled with a militarized police presence in the streets while citizens were strongly urged to hole up inside their homes, having first been stripped of many of their gun rights over the years —  has potentially caused many anti-gun advocates to silently rethink their positions. Because that is a perfidious

Language matters. You can’t combat what you can’t name, because what you can’t name, you can’t identify. So let me help out:  “jihadists”; “Islamists”; “Islamic radicals”; “terrorists”; “unlawful enemy combatants”; “Muslim extremists”; “foreign nationals”; “illegal aliens”.  These are descriptive terms that those hoping to shield our enemies — along with those hoping to project their own phony righteousness  —  demand we not use.  Just as they demand we not ascribe

Because everyone just knows you can’t send a “Thank you” to Boston’s first responders without your email and zip code On Monday, the DNC set up a page for supporters to “Thank Boston’s First Responders,” referencing those who responded to the bombing of the Boston Marathon last week. The site asks people who want to sign their name to a thank you note from the DNC to submit their name,

And that’s just coming from the right. I don’t have much more to offer than Ace and Mr Carroll already put forward, except to say that one of the consequences of adopting the left’s tactics when it suits our purposes is that “our” purposes are not always uniform, and they’re not always even “ours,” broadly speaking. So it isn’t shocking to me to see some on the right take lessons

Somehow, both brothers managed to register to vote.  They also managed to get firearms, despite the very stringent gun-control laws in Massachusetts. In the first case, the state was negligent — and what should stand as an example of the need to protect our franchise as American citizens will go largely ignored, or even defended, by those whose political power is dependent upon electoral laxity.  In the second case, the

Frankly, I’m torn.  On the one hand, I desperately want to do my part, which for me amounts to breathing a lot less and planting sustainable foods using a ploughshare and the cache of heirloom seeds I picked up off eBay, then watering my bounty to root with the sweat of my brow; on the other hand, however, I can’t help but feel like every time I stand over the

As William Jacobson and others have pointed out, the progressive media establishment — after having spent years now trying to pin every last national show of violence on the “right wing,” and having spent the days leading up to the identification of the alleged Marathon bombers yet again rehearsing that same formula — is, in a surreal show of arrogance and contempt for the citizens they supposedly help to “inform,”

Read and discuss. My own brief response: when I heard Peter King using the Boston response to call for additional surveillance cameras in cities, presumably government owned, I was put off. Like, viscerally. That was my initial reaction — and not just because I’m reliably non-photogenic. Rather, because it seems to me that store cameras, bank cameras, and personal cell phones, etc., did the work here, and I’m fine with

Discuss new developments here. For instance, I’m told that the Tweet from the suspect’s hacked Twitter account making the rounds is a hoax [potentially]. Also, it seems the brothers were living here as legal immigrants but were not citizens (according to FOX). [update: new report says naturalized citizens] Meanwhile, as the day goes on, I’ll be haranguing David Sirota on Twitter. I invite you to join me. Because among other