Color me shocked. But not orange. For the love of God. CNN: House Speaker John Boehner is mocking fellow House Republicans for saying that it’s too hard to tackle the controversial issue of immigration reform. Speaking Thursday at a meeting of the Middletown Rotary Club in his home congressional district in southwestern Ohio, an animated Boehner, talking about his colleagues on Capitol Hill, said “here’s the attitude: ‘Ohhhh, don’t make

Jim Pethokoukis offered his tack; I offered mine.  But Kevin Williamson really went out of his way to parse the chaff from the wheat — not with respect to Piketty himself, but rather to progressive economic fantasies more generally —and it turns out there’s not enough wheat left over in the progressive’s collectivist basket to make a single box of cereal: Money is a symbolic system, the purpose of which

As a follow-up to Darleen’s post below, it isn’t just states — and it isn’t just drinks — that the nannystate wants to watch. It’s you. Want some of that government health care you’ll soon be compelled, likely out of financial necessity, to take on? Well, the government wants things from you in exchange. Like, for instance, to watch what you eat, and send you messages encouraging to stop your

The state of Connecticut feels parents are too stupid to decide what their children should drink The state legislature is considering a bill that would ban day care centers from serving whole milk or 2 percent milk to children. The move, according to the bill’s sponsors, is aimed at curbing childhood obesity — but opponents say the information is outdated. […] It reads: “No child day care center, group day

Willful, playful, expressive, verbal. And freakishly strong, like an ant without the whole insect vibe. You are a blessing and a joy. And we love you very, very much. (We just hope that you like chocolate. And superheros. Because that’s the cupcake and balloon you’re getting, and there’s really no turning back now)

So, I’ve mentioned the swarm of Twittercons who’ve spent the last couple days coming after me — with one in particular, “ofwolfsandravens,” proving himself to especially dense and dimwitted. Tonight, in fact, he decided (as I’m a “looser” who had to “hide behind lawyers” when “threatened by a woman”) he wanted to meet me face to face. Presumably to bump chests or some shit. Which isn’t how it works. (Hi,

WSJ: Republicans are denouncing President Obama’s latest delay on the Keystone XL pipeline, six long years after it was proposed. But for cold political fury they have nothing on Terry O’Sullivan, who runs the Laborers’ International Union that represents a half-million construction workers. “This is once again politics at its worst,” Mr. O’Sullivan said in a public statement that deserves to be quoted at length. “In another gutless move, the

Well, I guess the relative lack of signatories should be heartening. If you’re a glass half-full-type guy, that is. If alternately you embrace your own cenosillicaphobic masochism, you’ll assume that the kinds of people who would sign such a thing are simply too stupid to find it — though they are, in fact, legion. It’s a pick em, really.

Since I’m still being hounded a bit on Twitter (well, a few putative conservatives are still talking about me, after having blocked me.  Because IRONY), I decided to merely start replying to certain critics — one actually suggested there’s nothing conservative about me — with links to old posts.  To see if maybe these people could put aside their pride for a bit and engage me on ideas I’ve expounded

Asking a question of a supposed fellow conservative is, according to a legion of sycophantic supposed fellow conservatives (just read through my Twitter feed today), akin to “harassment.”  To “attack.” To “slapping” someone who has suffered from battered wife syndrome. And noting that asking a question doesn’t equate at all to any of those things means, according to supposed fellow cons, you hate women, have a micro-penis, are a “fucking