Indeed. Even Michael Savage is starting to warm up to Palin and her unflinching willingness to call a spade a spade. So to speak. And not there’s anything wrong with that. Unsurprisingly, the mainstream media, fresh off its hectoring of Republicans to renounce their violent, hate-filled rhetoric (a hectoring issued without a hint of irony after that same media rushed to blame a senseless murder spree on conservative rhetoric) is

Howard Rich, ALG: “The saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time,” Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland wrote more than seventy years ago. And obviously the most dangerous assaults on liberty come not from sweeping edicts – but rather gradual incursions born out of the opportunism

CNSNews: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that Social Security will effectively run a $45-billion deficit in 2011 and continue to run deficits totaling $547 billion over the coming decade. The admission comes in the CBO’s semi-annual economic review that projects federal spending, debt, and economic growth. In the report, the CBO also examines the impact of projected economic performance on the trust fund that nominally funds Social Security. “Excluding

Civility! Hey, Meghan. I realize you fancy yourself a relevant, common-sense Republican — a pragmatist, if you will, and something of a GOP maverick, in the sense that, like your father, you spend much of your time proposing statism and cheering on Dems — but what you really are is a kind of silly mascot the left trots out when they want to try to pre-condition the tweens to champion