Why, it’s like Kent State all over again! Only instead of student deaths? We’re witnessing the watery eyes of fascist oppression! Which is kinda the same thing. If you squint. And you’re desperate.

RS McCain, American Spectator, “Heroes Forgotten, Lessons Unlearned”: There was a time — not really so long ago — when a ringing endorsement from CPUSA would have been the kiss of death for any political movement in America. Twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, however, the anti-communist sentiments of the Cold War seem as obsolete as the F-105 fighter-bomber (finally mothballed by the Air Force in 1984),

Happily for Obama and the Democrats, the GOP has done a wonderful job of presenting itself as protectors of “the rich” (rather than as champions of private property rights and individual liberty) — with the end result being that Obama’s campaign can continue to run against an obstructionist Congress, that supplier-side cuts will be made to Medicaid, that massive defense budget cuts are automatically triggered, and that the majority of

I’ll be on DaTechGuy’s program on WCRN in MA tomorrow morning at 10:45 am ET or thereabouts. Instapundit will be on immediately before me, probably talking about invisible cloaking, or how one day we’ll be using nanobots to fast-broil our Thanksgiving turkeys and mash our potatoes or some such. For my part, I’ll be talking about Occupy Denver’s attempt to force their way into BlogCon11 — and the fallout from

Have you ever imagined yourself a winged creature, able to soar above the mass of humanity going about its day oblivious to the heights to which you’ve so gloriously and remarkably climbed? Because I have. And it always ends with my taking a cluster of birdshot to an area just below the ribcage, then falling stupidly into some field, where a dog fetches my carcass in its dumb mouth before

That $1.2 Trillion Boehner and the boys were hoping to “cut” to save the US economy from a credit downgrade — necessitating an agreement with the Democrats to form a SuperCommittee everyone knew wouldn’t and couldn’t possibly work (and even if it did, it would benefit the Dems, who’d get defense spending cuts and non-recipient cuts to Medicare, which they could then blame on the GOP)? Well, here’s what it

Holy Crony Baloney, Batman! Dear Clients, Industry Colleagues and Friends of Barnhardt Capital Management, It is with regret and unflinching moral certainty that I announce that Barnhardt Capital Management has ceased operations. After six years of operating as an independent introducing brokerage, and eight years of employment as a broker before that, I found myself, this morning, for the first time since I was 20 years old, watching the futures

Honestly: if we don’t begin a serious pushback against these federal agencies — that is, get them back to focusing on their mandates at a macro level — then pretty soon, and by bureaucratic momentum alone, there will be nothing left that is unregulated, and few individual pleasures freely chosen that are legally permitted outside of some sort of vague social consensus that agrees to them. For the time being.

THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE! A brief re-cap, because this kind of move from Google, YouTube, et al., perfectly encapsulates how media is able to manipulate messaging in this country — be it through left-friendly media providers like Google, or by way of the legacy media, whose lovingly romanticized depictions of the various “occupy” fiascos has quite intentionally covered-up the intellectually vapid complaints of the protesters themselves. There’s a

So suggests Jeffrey Lord at the American Spectator. Me, I’m more cynical still: I believe erstwhile Berkeley liberal Jen Rubin never really changed her political stripes, that she is a 911 Republican (that is, a liberal hawk) at best, and at worst, she’s a plant, a house slave, a legacy media-approved left-centrist advocating for “sane” conservatives who can be readily identified by their willingness to reject conservative principles and pander