Needing a picture ID to vote, leftist judges and the Obama Justice Department keep telling us, is a substantial impairment and therefore can’t be enforced.  And yet, here are a number of other activities requiring a picture ID — all of which, I suspect, should now be ruled unfairly prejudicial to the  poor, long-suffering rural folk who exist mainly in the partisan, hyper-political brains of progressive ideologues.  With thanks to

Andrew Barrett: It has been almost 60 years since the birth of the modern American conservative movement. Conservatives have won some electoral victories over those years: two Reagan landslides, the GOP takeover of Congress in 1994, and the Tea Party victories last election. Yet, in terms of lasting policy changes, what have conservatives accomplished? What do we have to show for so many years of effort? The answer is, unfortunately,

Yes, he did say that. Every time the GOP nominates a RINO, pits him against a contemporary leftist Democrat, and the RINO (inevitably) loses, a little bit of me dies / an angel has one if its wings ripped off at the root by a shrieking hellish demon, who then rubs salt and lemon into the bloody stump wound.

The New Left is all in. Yes, the Romney response to attacks on Bain have been weak and feckless (at least, up until yesterday) — a hint of which we saw in the GOP primaries when some of Romney’s primary challengers decided to go anti-capitalist, as well. At which time I commented that Romney has trouble responding because he lacks an actual conservative world view — that his “severe conservatism”