Just in time for me to hand forge a few personalized Christmas tree ornaments! To quote the late lamented Anna Nicole (as reimagined for protein wisdom), “Deck the halls, bitches!”

Which is fine, albeit startlingly surreal coming from a paper whose editorial page says we should all rally behind Mitt Romney, unrepentant architect of state-run health care and careful, proactive steward of a planet beset by noxious human exhalation. It is to laugh. All of it. This whole primary season. Here: let me just get this out of the way. Not a vote has yet been cast. So the race

Yeah, I know. The infantilization of a culture; the desire by the feminist movement to neuter masculinity in their continuing war on boys; the supremacy of political correctness in every institution we’ve allowed by taken over by the academic left; the intentional misuse of linguistic categories for the purposes of power; blah blah blah. You’ve heard it all before. — Only this time, there’s a happy ending: [Jerry] Bostic, until

A: Is that a rhetorical question? Which answer is itself a rhetorical question?

In communist afterlife Hell, Kim Jong-il is right now standing in a long line awaiting his turn at a filthy crapper hole he’ll being sharing for eternity with a bunch of pale, flaccid, dead bureaucrats. All of whom have ringworm. And one of whom will every day for the rest of ever share with him a story about how he once was caught in a storm and for survival, was

…despite widespread public support for the project, which would move the US toward North American energy independence while creating over 20,000 jobs (not including any as yet unimagined ancillary jobs that the free market is likely to “invent” around such a large-scale undertaking): Gene Sperling the National Economic Council Director told CNN on Sunday that experts at the State Department are warning that forcing an answer on the XL within

And by “fuzzy,” I of course mean, “Jesus, does this fucking moron have even the first idea how a market economy works? Or does she think money just magically appears by way of sweetheart deals and IPO tipoffs?” “Pelosi: Extending Unemployment Benefits Would Create ‘600,000 Jobs’”: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that extending unemployment benefits would add “600,000 jobs to our economy.” She also said that the money

Rich Lowry, “Run, Newt, Run! Gingrich 2008?,” National Review, 2006: The old conventional wisdom about Gingrich was that we wouldn’t have him to kick around anymore. The new conventional wisdom is that he’s back, and he’s doing the kicking. Ousted by his own party after its losses in the 1998 midterm elections, Gingrich has reestablished himself as a party leader through sheer intellectual energy. He has had something intelligent to

Mission? To find and silence those scientists and skeptics who have put in peril attempts by transnational progressives to use phony climate science as a model for international wealth redistribution and, ultimately, a centralized world-governmental power that transcends individual state sovereignty. By seizing their property and clamping down on “denier” dissent. — Which, I was kinda hoping for a US/UK alliance that would take the fight to, say, Iran, or

Tyranny is on the march. Which is to be expected, in a post-constitutional society, where we have surrendered the idea of co-equal branches of government, and turned our representative system over to appointed philosopher kings who are able, from the bench, to insist on tax increases to feed the needs of the state: In her ruling, Denver District Court Judge Sheila Rappaport said that the State funding system of K-12