Idea: a re-imagining of Mississippi Burning in which Hackman and Dafoe are cast as villains for trying to force a principled sheriff to arrest and prosecute “his people” — in this instance, a local community organizer who preaches ethnic pride and a handful of good ol’ boys/working men who have joined the fight to save civic custom.* Oppressed underdogs fight The Power. A can’t miss. — Though this time, we

What began as comedy has now become tragedy. Here’s Hillary Clinton, describing current US foreign policy to the House Foreign Relations Committee: If you follow, as we follow, all of the websites that are looking at what’s happening in the Middle East, you see a constant drumbeat that ‘the United States is going to invade Libya to take over the oil — and we can’t let that happen. The false

Harsanyi: With all the hand wringing and self-defeating talk from Republicans about the political cost of allowing the federal government to shut down for a couple of weeks, there is a missed opportunity. What better way to illustrate just how little taxpayers get back on their “investments”? And what a great time to demolish the myth that even modest cuts would detrimentally affect most Americans. Alas, it looks like the

— as described by Josh Kraushaar at National Journal: As bold as the governor has been in calling for tough cuts to the budget, he’s been equally timid in laying out the reasons to restrain collective bargaining in the public sector. He’s taking the approach of a revolutionary reformer, but with the arguments of a number-crunching accountant. If an elected official is going to bring up an issue sure to

Liberal Ruth Marcus, WaPo: For a man who won office talking about change we can believe in, Barack Obama can be a strangely passive president. There are a startling number of occasions in which the president has been missing in action – unwilling, reluctant or late to weigh in on the issue of the moment. He is, too often, more reactive than inspirational, more cautious than forceful. Each of these

Denigrating and vilifying is okay, evidently, so long as the right kinds of haters are being denigrated and vilified. Desertion is democracy. Intimidation is compassion. They are the ones they’ve been waiting for. POWER TO THE PEOPLE! (thanks to Mr B)

We have real enemies who mean to destroy us. During the height of the financial panic of 2008, they gave our economy the strongest plausibly-deniable push they could, with the goal of inducing a complete financial collapse. They were actively countered and defeated in real time by the Bush Treasury Department and the Fed. These enemies are patient and know that this same attack will work sometime in the not

The other day, in response to a chiding post by leftist law prof Scott Lemieux, I wrote the following: I do believe the branches of government are co-equal — and that if we don’t allow for the check on the Supreme Court constitutionally afforded us by a paradigm of co-equal branches, we may as well recognize that we are living under the rule of 9 philosopher kings, not in a

The left and its mainstream media arm doing what they do best: manufacturing (dishonest) consent. A representative republic that is “informed” by a progressive propaganda complex masquerading (and given intellectual cover) as a neutral, objective purveyor of fact, must either overthrow that media complex, or else resign itself to the fact that they’ll be forever shaped by it. That’s not liberty. That’s being on the wrong end of an elaborate

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