What are we prepared to do?  Howsabout we take a page from Hobby Lobby — with its icky social conservative values, and embarrassing Christian pieties — and stand up for its liberty by simply denying the government and the courts their usurped authority? “Hobby Lobby Defies Obama Administration with Civil Disobedience for Religious Liberty”: Now that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has denied Hobby Lobby’s application for an emergency injunction

ObamaCare was famously foisted onto Americans with no Republican support.  And if Harry Reid and the progressives have their way, this will become the rule, not the exception — with the biggest impact coming in a fundamental transformation of the Court, the final step needed by progressives to deconstruct the Constitution while appearing to play by its rules, and to (in the short term) implement the fundamental transformation Obama desires,

No, but the left does like it some scapegoats, and what can be more evil than an organization that stands for the wholesale slaughter of little teeny-tiny childrens?  Or, to put it more clinically, since when did we start thinking rationality would trump self-serving self-righteousness, particularly when it comes from the political left? Prof. Stephen L Carter, writing in Bloomberg: Support for stricter U.S. gun laws hasn’t jumped as fast

Guess there’s really no reason to massage the numbers any more, right? After all, we got The One we’ve been waiting for for a second time. Which means Utopia is right around the corner, just past that pile of dead and rigored “rich Republicans” stacked like cordwood on the corner of Fair Share Lane and Social Justice Ave. Bill Wilson, ALG: Supposedly the recession ended in June 2009, but more

       “Wait, Obama said he’d soak the rich. ‘The fuck, dude?” ~ finis ~ (h/t Pablo)’

Courtesy of Jawa, and including interactive maps and spreadsheets. Which, true, aren’t as persuasive as a Joy Behar rant or pictures of children’s caskets. But they do have the benefit of being factual. (h/t palaeomerus). Also of note — and as reported here in the comments today — Utah and Vermont?  Among the lowest crime rates in the nation. Despite lots of guns. How is that even possible? (h/t di

Live, here. update:  Boehner wins re-election as Speaker.  With Michele Bachmann’s voting for him, much to my dismay and sadness. Unless this vote was a face-saving deal — and Boehner declines or resigns — today, the Republican Party officially died.   Or rather, killed themselves out of cowardice.  And no, I don’t care how many concessions Boehner supposedly made to conservatives in private. It’s about the optics.  And the GOP once

Glenn Beck tried to buy Al Gore’s floundering CurrentTV and was rebuffed. Instead, Gore sold it to Al Jazeera: The Blaze, approached Current Media about a sale last year, but was told in the words of one source that “the legacy of who the network goes to is important to us and we are sensitive to networks not aligned with our point of view.” The Blaze “reached out to them