And you thought it was only Boehner who was willing to caucus with Democrats against his own party rank and file.  Katrina Trinko, NRO: House majority leader Eric Cantor is increasingly frustrated with a group of House Republicans who are working against the leadership, and he’s not afraid of voicing his dismay. In a closed-door conference meeting on Wednesday, Cantor told one GOP member that if they blocked the Senate-passed

Well. Close enough. Gee. I hope this doesn’t mean Yglesias has lost his love for the deep throat, too.  Because, politics aside, I hate to watch a man become disillusioned by what once so clearly gave him enormous pleasure and comfort.

Courtesy of Geoff B.  PDF file here, link found here.  Some excerpts: “Assault Rifles”.  The very term “semiautomatic assault rifle” is internally contradictory. In World War II, rifles of standard military power could not be made full automatic, because the recoil (“kick”) was too powerful. The “assault rifle” concept involved cutting the cartridge’s power, and thus its recoil, in half, so that it could be controlled in full automatic fire.

Oh, lookit!  It seems Bob Woodward, who incidentally is old and silly and not terribly liberal-friendly and never really did all that much to bring down Nixon to begin with (and even if he did, he probably did so by being dishonest and mean), isn’t the only reporter who, for the crime of straight reporting, is being harangued by the White House — though without Obama’s consent or knowledge, naturally.

I wrote yesterday, to the dismay of some whom I admire (notably, dicentra, Bill Quick, sdferr, and a few others), that Rand Paul’s “yes” vote on the Hagel nomination — coming as it did on the heels of his having excoriated the phony posturing by Senate Republican Quislings like John McCain, who refused to block the vote, knowing that the result would be a Hagel confirmation, who then put on

So asks Bill Wilson of Americans for Limited Government. But before I get to his answer, allow me to offer mine, in brief:  they don’t believe in limited government, and they are at war right with Obama to make sure he gets the “blame” for cutting the rate of spending some insignificant amount — all because his threats to make the cuts needlessly and sadistically painful for ordinary Americans has

Red Alert Politics: A British councilman has apologized for saying “disabled children cost the council too much money and should be put down,” the BBC reported. Collin Brewer, an independent member of Cornwall Council, said he was trying to “provoke a reaction” when he made the comments to a member of Disability Cornwall, an advocacy group for disabled people. The charity complained, and Brewer was ordered to make a formal apology. “I