A little bit of civil disobedience and political theater won’t do any harm and makes for a nice tweak, I suppose. But before it’s over, we’re going to have to put Post-It notes on our faucets, our food, our clothing, and our furnaces, as well. — Which, this is what one should have expected from a President who told people in advance that energy prices under his plans would “necessarily

51 Senators have just gone on record to in effect vote against a foundational principle of our country’s philosophical genesis: he Senate voted today against an amendment to restore the religious liberty protections for employers who don’t want to be forced to pay for birth control or drugs that may cause abortions in their employee health plans. Leading pro-life organizations called on the Senate to vote for the amendment to

First, here’s Harvard grad, former PW commenter (back in the early days of the blogosphere), American Prospect writer, and senior editor for The Center for American Action Fund, Matthew Yglesias, writing on Twitter: Conventions around dead people are ridiculous. The world outlook is slightly improved with @AndrewBrietbart dead. And here’s a reprint of the single comment thread on Balloon-Juice — John Cole’s once right-of-center, libertarian site, which is now among

I was initially too stunned by the news to do much more than note Andrew’s passing. Now that some time has passed, though, let me say this: Andrew lived professionally to expose the Left’s smug blind spots to its own hatreds and bigotries — to problematize progressives’ own self-perpetuated (and self-delusional) narrative of their own moral, cultural, and intellectual superiority. And judging by the early reactions to his death from

Natural causes. Age 43. update: “Liberals celebrate death of Andrew Breitbart”. Of course they do. They’re leftists. It’s like, tradition. Besides: as Leftists, they’ve all agreed that they are good and tolerant and righteous. So they can’t be hateful. Q.E.D.