…but it’s, like, over 100-years old, to boot! Grow up, fetishists. The height of sophistication is admitting that the government is restrained by nothing, really — and that we all know it. (h/t sdferr)

Washington Examiner: Jared Loughner, the gunman charged with wounding Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and murdering six others in Tucson on Saturday, held bizarre beliefs about “conscious dreaming” and government mind control imposed through English grammar. No serious person would connect his belief system to a mainstream political ideology. But then there’s New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. He places the blood libel of blame for the Tucson murders squarely on

Aid and comfort: Some Republicans responded with indignation—why should the alleged act of an apparently deranged young man with a record of barely coherent, and only vaguely ideological rantings get charged to their account? Others acknowledged what they called an unavoidable reality—flamboyant or incendiary anti-government rhetoric of the sort used by many conservative politicians, commentators and tea party activists for the time being will carry a stigma. A senior Republican

But it’s the Tea Partiers who are craven, intolerant, and dangerous. Just so you know. Remember: dissent is the highest form of patriotism. Unless crazed extremist rightwingers who actually believe the Constitution “binding” (I mean, come on. It’s over 100 years old, for Chrissakes!) are doing the dissenting. Then it needs to be stamped out by, say, the Fairness Doctrine, or some kind of new legislation that would eliminate the