Over the past few weeks I’ve been getting emails and Tweets from people telling me how, eg., Rush Limbaugh or Mark Levin are talking about how crucial control over language is to the efforts of progressives looking to deconstruct and then invert entire categories of meaning in order to institutionalize the left’s epistemology, such as it is, out of which flows — inexorably and inevitably, as I’ve been fond of
April 2013
April 8, 2013
RIP Lady Margaret Thatcher [Darleen Click]
Former Prime Minister of Britain dies of stroke “It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning,” Thatcher spokesperson Lord Bell said in a statement. Thatcher, an outspoken woman known to many as “The Iron Lady,” was 87. She led Britain’s Conservatives to three election victories from 1979 to 1990, the longest continuous period in office
April 7, 2013
If you believe in God, the US Army teaches you are an ‘extremist’ [Darleen Click] UPDATED
Catholics, Evangelicals are just the same as Hamas, Al Qaeda and the KKK. A U.S. Army training instructor listed Evangelical Christianity and Catholicism as examples of religious extremism along with Al Qaeda and Hamas during a briefing with an Army Reserve unit based in Pennsylvania, Fox News has learned. […] The incident occurred during an Army Reserve Equal Opportunity training brief on extremism. Topping the list is Evangelical Christianity. Other
April 7, 2013
Sunday morning video in San Francisco Bay [Darleen Click]
I encourage you to watch this full screen … h/t Glenn Reynolds
April 7, 2013
Sunday sorbet: Satch’s 53lb bracket @ the Lobo Challenge, Ft Collins
Match 1 (Satch wrestles an independent in from Wyoming; the kid wound up taking 3rd place, ultimately): Match 2: Championship match (this kid was the heaviest in the bracket, outweighing Satchel at the time of satellite weigh-ins by 8 lbs. He also wrestles for Brighton, one of the best clubs in our state):
April 6, 2013
Same-sex couples are, by definition, infertile. California proposes law that will require insurance companies to pay for their “infertility” treatment [Darleen Click]
As goes California Should health insurers be legally required to offer infertility treatment for gay couples? Yes, according to a bill (AB 460) filed in the California legislature by assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco). In fact, refusing to do so should be a crime. Current California law requires group health plans to offer coverage for infertility treatments with the exception of in vitro fertilization (IVF). If such coverage is purchased,
April 6, 2013
Congrats to Satchel, first place winner at the Lobo Challenge, FT Collins
…in both the 45 and 53 lb brackets. Multiple gold medals in his season’s final tournament is the storybook way to end a wrestling year. It’s always great when a plan comes together, and Satchel ends his season a dual-weight champion, giving up eight pounds to take the second bracket. All told, he finished the tournament season having wrestled in six open tournaments — medaling in each one — collecting
April 6, 2013
MSNBC host abuses her child on air [Darleen Click]
Kiddie pr0n prop! Just.disturbing. h/t William A. Jacobson
April 5, 2013
Perhaps it’s time the GOP establishment performed an autopsy on its autopsy
Given that the original “autopsy” report — performed by Bushies for Bushies, and coming to the astounding conclusion that what the Party needs is more and better Bushies — seems to have driven them to tactical distraction and manic scapegoating. — The remedy for which, suggests Robert Romano of ALG, is to stop surfing the web and start taking conservative principles seriously: Establishment Republicans are in the midst of what
April 5, 2013
“Heading backward: The miserable March jobs report”
Darleen touched on this a bit, but here’s Jim Pethokoukis to bring it home: It would take superspin powers to portray the March jobs report as anything other than a huge step in the wrong direction. The US economy added just 88,000 jobs last month, 95,000 in the private sector as public payrolls fell by 7,000. The official unemployment rate ticked down a tenth of a point to 7.6%. 1. That