First, here’s the video if you haven’t yet seen it: Now, here’s what Costas’ spokesman had to say about the criticism Costas received for his bleating douchery, Costas himself apparently being too busy washing the gray out of his hair to comment directly. USA Today: NBC’s Bob Costas, communicating through a spokesman Monday about on-air comments about guns he made Sunday night, “feels an unfortunate leap was taken that he

The defense rests. And certain Florida prosecutors and cowardly politicians should resign in shame.  But they won’t, of course.  Because we live in Scapegoat America.  And Scapegoat America has a homestyle recipe:  Pick your villain, freeze him, and then attack, using relentless negative press, race-baiting, and the outraged cries of “civil rights” leaders. yield:  social status and preening moral superiority, that is, until such time as the tissue of lies

Paul Rahe on Romney’s failures and the changing electorate. It’s a long article and well worth the read, but let me highlight a few points.  First, as Rahe writes: Lest I bore you and fail to provoke sound and fury, let me preface my remarks by saying two things: that libertarians should be social conservatives and vice-versa. This was and is an argument I have been making here, sometimes explicitly,

In from the Cold: The conflict in Syria appears poised to take an ominous–and even more deadly–turn. In recent days, there have been several developments, suggesting that the on-going civil way may soon cross one of the feared “red lines,” dragging Syria’s neighbors (and perhaps NATO) into the conflict as well. First, there were multiple reports last week that the Assad government had shut down internet access across the country

So asks David Post, writing at Volokh, in a thoughtful piece that takes to task Paul Finkelman’s insipid and historically inaccurate revisionist reimagining of Thomas Jefferson, which the NYT Op-ed page titles “The Monster of Monticello”. Writes Post: The founding generation, Finkelman writes, helped perpetuate a “treason against the hopes of the world,” by “fail[ing] to place the nation on the road to liberty for all,” and “no  one bore a

Rebekah Rast, ALG: Apparently, gas isn’t expensive enough yet-at least for one environmental interest group that is now suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to force the creation of Cap-and-Trade. The Institute for Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law last week told EPA to expect the lawsuit. “They want to make cheap energy expensive, so that expensive energy will seem cheap,” said Ryan Houck, executive

Been meaning to post this here but never got around to it until now.  Forgive me if you’ve already seen it, pored over it, and thrown up a little in your mouths because of it.  Zerohedge: Exactly two years ago, some of the more politically biased progressive media outlets (who are quite adept at creating and taking down their own strawmen arguments, if not quite as adept at using an