This is more of the left’s social engineering — perfected in “theory” in the academy using specialized jargon and a studied rejection of patriarchal logic — finding its way into public policy, often against the wishes of those compelled to accede:  your gender identity, at least in Massachusetts,  is whatever you say it is, and it is you alone who gets to determine it on any given day. Liberating, right? 

During which time she’ll rail against the ultra rich — “the top 2%” — whom as we all know don’t contribute their fair share, worried as they are over vulgar bourgeois concerns like profit and expansion, the greedy covetousness of which is an affront to the noble poor and the free-market oppressed who are compelled to collect disability and food stamps and housing vouchers as a direct result of the

Had I edited this study (pdf) from the Reason Foundation, I’d have added the subtitle:  “So take your Keynesian shovel-ready jobs bullshit and stuff it up your fat pampered half-white ass, President Food Stamp.” Which, it’s probably a good thing I remain here, a non-editor, safely on the outer fringes of right-wing extremism, alongside the Birchers, the Neo-Nazis, the Klan, and the ghosts of racist misogynists past.  Like Washington and

Gov Rick Scott reverses course, will support state health care exchanges, having decided that getting re-elected on false promises and certain eventual state bankruptcy is more important than keeping the promises he made to those who elected him in the first place. Another hip that can’t be broken soon enough.  

Wonder if Selectman Jeffries had a dream in which Paul Revere rode by his window with a pitchfork. At any rate, a follow-up to yesterday‘s post, courtesy of RI Red: A thunderous round of applause and a standing ovation greeted the news Wednesday night that a proposed town bylaw to restrict some assault weapons was going to be officially withdrawn. The overwhelming majority of the close to 400 people who

I can’t remember who originally linked Cass Sunstein’s review of Sarah Conly’s book, Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism, in the comments here, but I did take the opportunity to make note of it on my facebook page.  And rather than re-write what I’ve already written on this in another venue, I’ll just repeat here what I’ve already noted elsewhere, albeit with some expansion. And that is this:  even the title of

Which is in fact his entire strategy, politically — as regular readers of this site have known for quite some time now:   Obama positions himself to blame Republicans for his own executive shortcomings — after all, sequestration was his idea, developed precisely because he knew he could later demagogue it, and that the Republican House leadership, made manifest in a quivering, weeping bowl of orange surrender jello (and prodded