Heritage’s The Foundry: The Supreme Court announced today that it will hear cases dealing with the definition of marriage during its current term. The Court will consider challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act, passed by an overwhelming bipartisan majority in Congress and signed by President Clinton, and Proposition 8, California’s constitutional amendment to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. After lower courts ruled against

If that government happens to be a tyranny.  Want to see how it works?  Here, have a gander. I have news for you all:  the postmodern presidency is intended to usher in liberal fascism while keeping the optics of “fairness” as the focal point.  For the useful idiots.  And it is doing just that.  The “most transparent administration evah!” is actually the most secretive in my lifetime.  And yes, I

Seems not everybody is buying the,  “I’m breaking my pledge because I love my country, and how dare you question my patriotism!” high-dudgeon on offer by several of the Republican surrendercrats. Dear Republican Members of Congress, We, the undersigned organizations, who represent millions of Americans dedicated to fiscal restraint, have read in dismay some members of Congress will consider raising taxes to address the upcoming “Fiscal Cliff.” Specifically, some members

And that’s as the (real, not finessed) unemployment rate looks dismal. Why, it’s almost as if one were to take out a slide rule or a fancy calculator or even an abacus, they could find some kind of correlation — if not causation — between the expansion of government, the shrinking of the private sector, and the continued horror of obstinately high unemployment rates. Were one so invested, I mean.

Here. I’m posting this especially for slippyshod.  Behold! “The only problem is — and this is initially going to seem like heresy from a progressive is — the truth is everybody needs to pay more taxes, not just the rich. And it’s a good start. But we’re not going to get out of this deficit problem unless we raise taxes across the board, to go back to what Bill Clinton

Is that a pistol in your push-up bra, honey, or is it just really cold outside…?* (h/t TerryH)

Which is a good thing, provided we’re talking about Mexican drug cartels.  Here, though?  Not so much: With President Obama’s final election behind him, gun-control advocates said they expect the White House to begin pushing through an assortment of gun restrictions in coming months. Obama rarely talked about guns during his re-election campaign, and when he did, it was mostly to reassure voters he had no plans to take away