Unfortunately, money that takes the form of profitability — like coal and, in this case, shale and the oil extracted from it — is dirty dirty dirty, not like spending beyond our means for “fairness,” or, as an objective correlative, organically-harnessed green energy that, with the proper nudging from the most enlightened and best among us will one day propel all our cars and return the earth to its most

Intended consequences A Catholic university in Ohio said Tuesday it is being forced to end a student health insurance program over the Obama administration’s contraception mandate and costs associated with other provisions of the health care overhaul. Mr Tingles meets karma On at least four occasions, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews mocked Sarah Palin for how he felt she’d do if she were ever on the hit television game show Jeopardy!. In

A few days ago in a thread on a post I didn’t write, I edited a couple of comments by one of PW’s regulars, in a misguided and inappropriate attempt to correct yet another instance of that individual’s all-too-predictable behavior on a particular issue. I should not have done that, and before I try to participate in anything further here I need to extend my apologies to Jeff, our host;

No justice, no peace! The medical report from George Zimmerman’s family doctor after the Trayvon Martin shooting shows that Zimmerman’s nose was broken; he also had a pair of black eyes, two lacerations on the back of his head, a bruised upper lip, and a back injury. He was examined by the doctor the day after the shooting. The three-page medical report will likely be used as evidence for the

— and the answer is none, none more historic. Or none more black, if you prefer the original.

Well, shit, man: what’s the use of being “historic” if the rest of colonialist/imperialist/bitter-clinger history is going to disrespect you by pretending the world doesn’t begin and end with you? The One is the loneliest number. But it needn‘t be. Racists. (thanks to JD and geoffB)

Energy independence is ours! That is, were our government not the very thing actively preventing us from achieving it so that it can keep with the transnational progressivist plan to use junk-science environmentalism as the justification for global wealth redistribution and, if things go well, an end to the silly, jingoistic framework of nation states and sovereignty. But I digress: The Green River Formation, a largely vacant area of mostly

Progressive premise (which we know to be serious, because the word “shit” is thrown in to show just how real we’re preparing to get up in here): “If we actually give a shit about people and their health, then we have to look at what we can do and what we can fix.” protein wisdom response: “My health is most negatively affected by handing over its control and management to