Doug Ross fills in some blanks. Naturally, we all knew the media would go full-throated in blaming the evil right wingers for an horrific act by some nutjob. Because they have no shame, and because, as the propaganda arm of the progressive movement, they won’t let any crisis go to waste. Don’t cow to it. This shooting was no more the fault of critics of the left than it was

Krauthammer, on “Constitutionalism”: Americans are in the midst of a great national debate over the power, scope and reach of the government established by that document. The debate was sparked by the current administration’s bold push for government expansion – a massive fiscal stimulus, Obamacare, financial regulation and various attempts at controlling the energy economy. This engendered a popular reaction, identified with the Tea Party but in reality far more

Barton Hinkle: So look back at two of the chief disputes from 2010. You will find something curious in the kernels. The first debate concerned health care reform. Strip away the seemingly endless details, and the argument from advocates boiled down to a simple proposition: that health care should be “a right for every American.” That is how Barack Obama put it in a 2008 debate. A year and a

Harsanyi: it’s social conservatism that will most often turn those with secular sensibilities away from the right. Even within the movement, a libertarian vs. social conservative debate has roiled on forever. This dynamic is only going to change when political expediency becomes a force more powerful than faith — which is to say the day after we pay off the national debt. Now, it’s true that social conservatives can be

But “Memphis Beat” — in which Jason Lee plays a singing New Orleans detective, and DJ Qualls a bumbling patrolman? Gets a second season. It’s a madhouse. A maaaaaaaadhouse…!

EJ Dionne, lies by omission. Of course, in Dionne’s defense, he had to lie. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have a point to make. Q.E.D.! (h/t sdferr)

But we need cap and trade. For the children! Because air pollution, it turns out, may be the cause of autism. Ahem. And you thought they’d just give up… (h/t Rush Limbaugh Show)

First: Listen to the first fifteen minutes (at least) of yesterday’s Mark Levin show. Second: come back and tell me if you believe Levin is overstating things. I have one nitpick: when Levin talks about the ways progressives “interpret” the Constitution, he doesn’t allow for the fact that they are, from a linguistic perspective, doing more than merely “manipulating” it. They are in fact rewriting it. One cannot simply bracket

Yes, I find it ironic that Mr Rove would fret over cronyism — he seemed pretty upset about TEA Party types crashing his GOP establishment’s ranks, after all — but in this case he’s perfectly on point: In September, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius began granting waivers to companies that provided workers “mini-med” coverage—low-cost plans with low annual limits on what the insurance will pay out. This followed announcements by some

Are there any legitimate Lancet studies? Don’t answer. Rhetorical question. (thanks to TerryH)