“The federal hate crime bill is unnecessary, unjust, and unconstitutional,” argues Reason‘s Jacob Sullum: “Hate crimes have no place in America,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi boldly declared last week, “no place in a nation where we pledge every morning ‘with liberty and justice for all.’” Pelosi was urging her colleagues to approve a bill aimed at violence motivated by hostility toward members of certain designated groups. According to Pelosi, then,

Seems my morning paper was never delivered today. Or else it was delivered, then stolen right from my driveway. Either way, this has Dianne Feinstein’s name written all over it. Developing…

Dear Sirs: I am writing to let you know that I’d be happy to manage the Rockies for 10% of whatever it is you happen to be paying Clint Hurdle.  In fact, allow me to sweeten the offer:  if, in the unlikely event I don’t win more games than Hurdle has won in any one of his seasons as manager, I will refund fully half of my already reduced salary,

oatmeal:  “For the last time, they’re not ‘seeds of Christ.’ They’re frickin’ raisins.  Jesus—I think that Quaker getup is really starting to mess with your head, Friend.”

Sulfuric acid and male chauvinism as a function of Otherness.  Granted, chemical burns aren’t, under the twisted rationale of an establishment feminism that oftentimes finds itself caught in the logical snare of its own fidelity to identity politics, as potentially empowering as covering up in a burlap sack.  But it’s hard to deny that melted skin and a useless eye don’t practically force a gal to assert her individuality… (h/t

Thomas Sowell, on the way the MSM chooses and frames its “scandals” (which, in case you needed it, provides additional anecdotal evidence for a media that not only skews left, but—when at all plausible—protects its ideological fellow travelers from potentially negative scrutiny): Before the Washington Madam surfaced, the big scandal in town was the Bush administration’s firing of eight U.S. Attorneys. But it was not a scandal, as far as

From the Guardian of all places, an interesting analysis of “anti-faith” proselytizing as a growth industry.  Madeleine Bunting, “The New Atheists loathe religion far too much to plausibly challenge it”: What [the New Atheists] all have in common is a loathing of an increasing religiosity in US politics, which has contributed to a disastrous presidency and undermined scientific understanding. [Daniel] Dennett excoriates the madness of a faith that looks forward

From Ace, citing the media embargo of a Rasmussen poll “finding that 61% of self-identifying Democrats either believe George Bush knew of the 9/11 attacks in advance or are not sure if he did or not”: […] when 61% of Democrats state they believe that George Bush knew about the 9/11 attacks in advance, or may have known of them—thus making George Bush a co-conspirator in the attacks—the media not

Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat : “Listen, pal.  Without me, you’d still be busing tables and playing a foppish cat at some godawful dinner theater.  So thank your lucky stars we met, and when I tell you to go buy me a hoagie and a forty of MGD, go buy me a hoagie and a forty of MGD—or else I’ll be forced to find one of the gazillion other desperate Josephs who’ll

From Expatica, “Police battle anti-Sarkozy protestors”: Riot squads fired tear gas Sunday at protestors throwing stones, bottles and, in one instance, acid at police in cities across France after right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidential victory. Clashes took place at Paris’ Place de la Bastille, where about 5,000 supporters of the defeated Socialist candidate Segolene Royal had gone to await the election results and had stayed on after Sarkozy’s triumph. Up to