I’ve been to New Orleans, outside of Bourbon Street, without protection, and you haven’t. (h/t American Thinker)

I took the Cohens’ dog, Then I chucked tomatoes Over the fence separating your yard from theirs. When the old man got mad And tore up the plants, I consoled you in your distress. By the way, have I mentioned “Fuck Harper’s” lately?  Fuck Harper’s: More evidence of the White House’s partisan manipulation of relations with Syria emerged yesterday, as President Jimmy Carter told a gathering in New York about

I stole your bicycle from the neighbor’s drive, But when you raised a stink, I brought it back to your garage. Now I think it’s only fair That everyone regard me In a favorable light For my generosity. Thompson weighs in.  Fred . . . not that well-meaning ninny, Tommy.  Still, there’s a Thompson who’s still dumber and more dishonest than Tom. Meanwhile, paul ilc is back at Bloody Scott,

Reader John H sends along this Detroit News editorial, aptly (if pointedly) titled “An iPod for every kid? Are they !#$!ing idiots?” And while the title may not please many social conservatives (children, after all, need be protected from potty-mouthedness, even when it is referenced quasi-diacritically), fiscal conservatives will almost certainly feel the Detroit News’ pain: We have come to the conclusion that the crisis Michigan faces is not a

From the AP: For all the tough talk out of Washington on immigration, illegal immigrants caught along the Mexican border have almost no reason to fear they will be prosecuted. Ninety-eight percent of those arrested between Oct. 1, 2000, and Sept. 30, 2005, were never prosecuted for illegally entering the country, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal data. Nearly 5.3 million immigrants were simply escorted back across the

A happy coincidence, sure, but today’s “From The Publisher” column in the Rocky Mountain News speaks to many of the topics raised in my post yesterday concerning the role of the legacy media in shaping (and then maintaining the parameters of) the national debate.  Here’s John Temple,

The UK’s Guardian newspaper is in some respects the ultimate progg organ.  Its absurdities provide excellent fodder for Scott Burgess’s anti-bullshit machine, The Daily Ablution, and numerous other blogs that delineate the strange pathology of progg thought.  Sometimes, indeed, I worry about reading the Guardian, just as I would worry if I found myself purchasing a 4-DVD set of the Most Spectacular Homicides of Unsolved Mysteries.  And yesterday they published