They are only your representatives in that you elect them over Democrats. But that doesn’t mean they’re committed to representing your interests. Because the truth is, they have to represent their own interests first and foremost, and that oftentimes requires that they vote for things like gun control or the Violence Against Women Act (read, the “you can’t use unpleasant language against the transgendering for fear of violating federal law”

Thomas Sowell Shepherds and Sheep One of the key differences between mistakes that we make in our own lives and mistakes made by governments is that bad consequences force us to correct our own mistakes. But government officials cannot admit to making a mistake without jeopardizing their whole careers. Can you imagine a President of the United States saying to the mothers of America, “I am sorry your sons were

They are intolerant of intolerance, you see — so much so that they are hailed by the progressive activists pretending to be mainstream journalists for essentially blocking arguments (before the Court!) that run contrary to their world view.  Which of course is not really what anyone should hail in Supreme Court Justice, unless, that is, one thinks of the court not as some neutral arbiter of Constitutional law, but rather

Fat lot of good it’ll do you with people like McCain in the Senate, but Orin Hatch tends to be good on these-type fights, so maybe he’s the Senator to get energized (in conjunction, of course, with the TEA Party Senators, who tend to do the right things without having to be reminded), given that he carries weight with the establishment Republicans.  Otherwise, the long and incremental march toward overriding

Yes, I’m a proud poppa. Can you tell? Also, please ignore the bit of ass you can see in the championship match as I kneel mat side. My wife couldn’t have captured a more unflattering angle. Besides, it’s about the boy, not me. Match one, Satch wins 8-0. Video lost to a crapped-out cell phone. The short of it: Satch kept wrist control and essentially rode the kid all three

Because freedom. So. Let us recap, shall we? The US federal government, expanding at breakneck speed through the bureaucracies, is increasing the number of drones it will be using for domestic surveillance — drones that can track cell phones and gauge whether citizens are armed and which are under the control of those who can’t tell us yet whether or not they believe they have the right to target a

Surprisingly, my oldest boy’s wrestling tournament hasn’t, to my knowledge, been canceled — this, despite all the civil uncertainty and the roaming bands of former TSA workers looking for the weak and isolated to corner in abandoned rope lines and then pat down suggestively — so we’ll be riding about 40 miles north this morning toward Colorado’s eastern plains, armed to the teeth, (in fact, it wasn’t but a half-hour