…only bullies will get to determine what truth is and how it’s told. I’ve been warning people about this for years, this move toward a surreal authoritarian “tolerance” designed to keep us fearful and uninformed — even describing how it’s made to work, right down to the happy-sounding hermeneutic assumptions that allow it entry into our epistemology (we have “democratized” interpretation, freeing meaning from the tyranny of the author! Yay

From Doug Ross. The only thing I’d change is the valediction. Instead of “sincerely”, which, while fine, is a bit tepid, I’d have tried something with a dash more immediacy, like, say, “FOR CHRISSAKES, WAKE THE FUCK UP!” But then I’m told I have a very direct manner. Which isn’t to everyone’s taste. Clearly.

So. Did I call Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Patrick Frey an anti-semite, as those commenting at his site continue to suggest? You be the judge. But do keep in mind that these posts were in direct response to Frey’s own posts publicly vetting Stacy McCain for what Frey decided may or may not be racist thought crimes/racist behaviors sometime in his (perhaps and potentially) racist past that Mr McCain

The most bang-on political assessment I’ve read coming out of the mainstream conservative opinion sites in quite some time. Michael Walsh, NRO: Is anyone surprised that a local judge has issued a temporary restraining order against . . . well, against Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican party of Wisconsin? Yes, a mighty jurist in Dane County with the Dickensian name of Maryann Sumi has halted publication of the new