Hey, hipsters and Obama fluffers:  to borrow a phrase, it looks like  America’s “progressive” chickensssss…are coming home to rooooooooost! CNET: A Senate proposal touted as protecting Americans’ e-mail privacy has been quietly rewritten, giving government agencies more surveillance power than they possess under current law. CNET has learned that Patrick Leahy, the influential Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, has dramatically reshaped his legislation in response to law enforcement

Why is it that conservative “contempt” for many in the electorate is so often posited as a reason why the GOP loses, while progressive vituperation and outward contempt — indeed, widespread mockery — of conservatism doesn’t seem to cost them many votes and lead to a lot of naval-gazing about how their messaging? One answer, naturally, is that the left, by way of the media and the academy and popular

Now you can see why the “conservative” opinion leaders freeze me out:  I’ve been on to them since forever.  Christie sabotaged Romney — and he did so intentionally once the storm gave him the opportunity — though it hardly matters at this point.  Meanwhile, Jeb Bush is writing the book on amnesty.  This is the GOP establishment. Distilled. Crystalized. These are two moderates (hell, they’re JFK Democrats) — who will

As I lay back on the divan, exhausted, thinking of Frank Gifford — the all-American curl to his forelock, the clean-cut, square-jawed righteousness manifest in his burst to a graceful gallop that in his playing days left lesser mortals, flawed champions all, broken in the dirt at his feet — I couldn’t help but notice:  he’s now an old white man. His kind are these days relics, moral throwbacks, political

I’m not great fan of Ron Paul’s foreign policy, but when it comes to certain aspects of the Constitution, he’s precisely correct and a forceful advocate for the document’s integrity.  It is fashionable these days to repeat the rote trope that the legality of secession as a Constitutional issue was “settled” by the Civil War.  Which is a lot like saying that the lie of US military preeminence was “settled”