Kurt Schlichter: The GOP Establishment we keep hearing about is real, and it is also doomed. That will not change whether the Establishment’s candidate Mitt Romney wins in November or not. After the election, the battle really starts; what is happening now are just skirmishes in a fight for control of the Republican Party. Not the soul of the party – if it had one, it auctioned it off long

— which is shocking, because, as noble, hard-working immigrants yearning for freedom, they are indeed the best among us, and all they want is to pick watermelons and lettuce and wash dishes and raise their families in peace, unmolested by the nativists and xenophobes. But if whether or not they’re left alone to do so requires a bit of voter fraud along the way, well… the ends justify the means,

I post this here because I believe it important to make it clear to Republicans who are pushing it as our duty to back Mitt Romney, should they succeed in garnering him the nomination, that what they are asking us to do is give our one vote to a man who fundamentally disagrees with foundational tenets of free market capitalism, backing instead a kind of government-guided command and control, corporatist

oatmeal: “Sure, it’s probably a racist hate crime to note that, put a little white chef’s cap on his dome, and the President looks just like that officious Cream of Wheat bitch. “But that doesn’t make it any less true.”*

I know. What’s being reported is that the unemployment rate has fallen yet again (hell, not just a fall, but a “plummet”!) And subsequent reports will likely show unemployment continuing to edge down in the run-up to the 2012 election, creating a picture of an economy on the mend under the steady stewardship of a driven President refusing to be defeated by either the fiscal mess Bush bequeathed him, or

In his “The Case for Romney,” Jonah Goldberg suggests that, because Mitt Romney is not particularly ideological, he’d make for a controllable — and grateful — President: Many conservatives argue that Romney’s stiffness is a superficial objection, and that he’s a solid conservative who can appeal to moderates and independents. Other conservatives think Romney’s lack of fluency is a real problem, not because it proves he’s faking his conservatism but

In summer 2009 I started Fire Fifty, with the obective of firing fifty members of Congress in 2010 in order to take the House away from the Progs. The objective was met, though Fire Fifty had little to no impact. I think the idea was good, and I hoped that some national organization, with an interest in electing Republicans, might come along and run with the idea. Maybe some mythical

The Daily Caller, “Bribery, compromised officials leave indicted financial-crime suspects free from prosecution under Holder’s DOJ”: A U.S. Justice Department source has told The Daily Caller that at least two DOJ prosecutors accepted cash bribes from allegedly corrupt finance executives who were indicted under court seal within the past 13 months, but never arrested or prosecuted. The sitting governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, his attorney general and an unspecified

That’s my paraphrase. But it’s his argument, even if he’d tell you otherwise: In the days after his Washington lecture, Mr. Obama took a shorter version of his SOTU speech on the road—to Colorado, Michigan, Iowa, Nevada and Arizona, states he needs in November. On the White House website, you can see him give this campaign tuneup speech at the new, $5 billion Intel chip-fabrication plant in Chandler, Ariz. It’s

Pro-life Romney required Catholic hospitals to administer morning after pill for rape victims. Because, well, states rights, I guess. CNS: The [MA] House had included language to “expressly apply” the 1975 conscience law protections to the new emergency contraception law, the bulletin explained. The Senate had included language saying the new law should apply “notwithstanding” any existing law. “In the end, neither amendment was included in the bill,” said the