Marvel here as your ideological fellows all over the country go to the polls and once again press another progressive Republican on us, having been conditioned to believe that a conservative will turn off independents and “moderates” and is therefore “unelectable.” Now I know why Bill Murray spent a good part of Groundhog Day trying to figure out ways to kill himself.

So squeals Ezra Klein, a “pundit” perhaps best noted as some kid who likes to form secret groups with other leftwing journalists to both invent and then push the news cycle. The only problem is, this is Ezra Klein we’re talking about, which means there’s a near 100% he’s either purposely misreading data, spinning that data to create a narrative he’s hoping he can push on a technicality, or else

Yes, obviously. Because that’s what “severely conservative” candidates do: maintain “progressivity” — or, to put a finer point on it, maintain one of the 10 planks in the Communist Manifesto, the graduated income tax. CNS: Romney has a long record of opposing a flat tax–even investing more than $50,000 of his own money during the 1996 presidential campaign to run newspapers ads attacking then-presidential candidate Steve Forbes’s flat-tax proposal as

–is the way I’m paraphrasing it. For his part, Jim Geraghty offers this response in his “Morning Jolt”: Madam Secretary, with all the respect due to your office: Shut up. Your job is to represent us, not to tell us what we can and cannot say in response to American policy and overseas events. Some of the Afghanis most likely to allegedly get inflamed by the remarks made stateside are

Courtesy Michelle Obama and the food police, who have evidently successfully entrenched themselves into the military bureaucracy: During a panel discussion Thursday on how government can promote healthy eating habits, the U.S. Army touted its mess hall labeling system that places warning on desserts and fried foods. The event, held at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, saw Lt. Col. Sonya Cable highlight the “Go for Green” program, which labels

He’s getting much grief over saying so. But then, the truth is never very popular with those who ostensibly provide us with the “objective” information we need to make informed decisions — mostly because it tends to defang progressive propaganda attempts and, nowadays, disrupt a status quo that is built almost entirely on perception rather than reality. And no, I don’t think I’m overstating the extent of our epistemic problems