Scratch a modern-day left-liberal, find his inner China envy hiding just beneath the “reform-minded” surface: If you’re wondering why lawyers and Hollywood folks would get behind legislation to censor the Internet, you only need to listen to former Senator Chris Dodd, now the head of the MPAA, who last week explained to Variety that the lobby is only asking for the same kind of power to censor the Internet as

It’s coming — and in fact, we’ve already seen it with Google and YouTube, who routinely pull down content and block users accounts for such bogus reasons as “privacy violations” and the like. There’s no recourse, once the government gives the clampdown on speech its imprimatur. You are a slave to the bureaucratic morass. By design. It’s all meant not simply to silence you, but to frustrate you — and

Narrated by Reason TV reporter Michelle Fields for the Center for Freedom and Prosperity. Matt Damon!

Which, I guess, makes me one of God’s equipment managers or something. But be that as it may. After the Broncos’ improbable last minutes push to tie a game they eventually won in overtime, Bears’ linebacker Brian Urlacher was asked his opinion of the Broncos’ polarizing QB. Quipped Urlacher, he’s a “good running back.” Yes. A good running back who orchestrated a 10-point turnaround in the games’ final five minutes,

…reject reality. This story is running on the front page of the Los Angeles Times website: A nakedly-partisan propaganda piece on an Obama supporter, who has made it “her personal mission” to see The One re-elected. It is full of unchallenged myths about Obama and flogs the Historical First Black President who is being thwarted, not by his own incompetence but by Nasty Mustache-twirling Republicans in top hats, spats and

I know. Ramesh Ponnuru — who has such great hopes for Romney conservatism (he’s The One! The new GOP lightbringer!) — will be devastated. But it is what it is — and fortunately for us, people other than the Romney “electability” brigade are paying attention, and find no great comfort in a nominating philosophy that promises not to consider political leanings. Listen: I understand the rhetorical appeal of pretending that

A: Steve Kroft, who somehow managed to do an entire interview with the President without speaking — or at least, without speaking about Solyndra, Congressional calls for Attorney General Holder’s impeachment, the MF Global scandal (and in particular, the role played by top Obama fundraiser Jon Corzine), or Elena Kagan’s involvement in the legislative guidance of ObamaCare before her appointment to SCOTUS. Though in his defense, Kroft did manage to

And who better to wish us all season’s greetings than the late lamented Anna Nicole Smith, who gave us her very own unique take on English to learn and enjoy [originally published between 2004-2006]…?

I’m tempted to talk about the irony of kids taking out student loans to enroll in a class that will “study” why irate college grads who can’t get jobs are camped out in tents complaining about the amount they owe on student loans, but then I think, no, let’s let whole thing play itself out as a piece of cultural performance art and see if anybody involved in the enterprise

Another new standard set! Historic! When all is said and done, you haters are going to have to accept that, five years after he’s sadly forced by a flawed document to leave office, Barry O makes it into the Hall of Fame on the first ballot. He’s a game changer, is our Barack. Who’s leaving his mark all over the record books. Like Barry Bonds, or Roger Clemens. Deal with