David Thompson has up another one of his excellent posts, but before I get to that, I’d like to show a snippet from an article to which I was directed by La Malkin, regarding the shouting down of a speech at the University of Massachusetts: “We intended for the event to be a forum for the expression of a conservative perspective on hate crime legislation, but also to provide a

or, a Fragment of a Vision in a Dream Smoking a Pipe with a St. Bernard Coming Out of It (For tomorrow is National Iowahawk Day) At the bending of the river Where it bows the brackish water In the fertile land of Hawkeyes Where the Hy-Vee vends its groceries And employees own the business There was taught the Iowahawk.

Drives me crazy when my students opt for this kind of essay, because I usually end up wanting to shake them around saying, “What made you decide to compare a trebuchet with a pomegranate? Why, why, WHY did you make me read this? Have I been cruel to you?” Nevertheless, Dan Riehl makes a good point here. It appears that there’s been a ginned up report of David Vitter pitching

Ari Fleischer shows Obama-fellating sycophant, would-be bully and all-around moronic hack Chris Matthews how it’s done.

or come out of his tree: Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh dropped a bombshell* on Tuesday when he told an audience at the University of Minnesota that the military was running an “executive assassination ring” throughout the Bush years which reported directly to former Vice President Dick Cheney. The remark came out seemingly inadvertently when Hersh was asked by the moderator of a public discussion of “America’s Constitutional Crisis” whether abuses

Who best doesn’t speak for you? Civility NOW!!! Sister Toldjah has an even better one: Of what are you tired?

Breaking: Bored by the lack of challenge he has found in his present position as Leader of the Free World, Barack Obama has announced his intention to seek Highest Office by running for Supreme Being of the Universe. Cabinet appointees were stunned, but President Obama’s spokespeople stress that he is committed to the business of the American people in his present role, and intends to leave the position in reliable

Several people have brought to my attention that Patterico has been working overtime to rehabilitate his earlier arguments concerning Rush Limbaugh’s provocative or “ambiguous” remarks. Having just read his post, my immediate reactions are as follows: The statement Patterico now quotes was offered a month after the attacks on Limbaugh began. Anybody who read my piece knows that we were dealing the original statement the media grabbed onto, and that

Every year, as the combine approaches, we get talking heads and pundits talking about the inexact science of draft boards, drafting for need or for quality, the risks and potential upsides of various players looking to move from college to the NFL. It’s ever the case, too, that many teams will be looking to find a franchise quarterback who’s going to lead them out of the wilderness. Probably more than

Great piece by Mark Impomeni at RedState on all the stuff the LAT got wrong about Obama’s executive order: in short, just about everything. It’s pretty much all about Obama protecting the indignity of human life and the LAT helping him make the world safe for science.