And that’s just coming from the right. I don’t have much more to offer than Ace and Mr Carroll already put forward, except to say that one of the consequences of adopting the left’s tactics when it suits our purposes is that “our” purposes are not always uniform, and they’re not always even “ours,” broadly speaking. So it isn’t shocking to me to see some on the right take lessons

Somehow, both brothers managed to register to vote.  They also managed to get firearms, despite the very stringent gun-control laws in Massachusetts. In the first case, the state was negligent — and what should stand as an example of the need to protect our franchise as American citizens will go largely ignored, or even defended, by those whose political power is dependent upon electoral laxity.  In the second case, the

Frankly, I’m torn.  On the one hand, I desperately want to do my part, which for me amounts to breathing a lot less and planting sustainable foods using a ploughshare and the cache of heirloom seeds I picked up off eBay, then watering my bounty to root with the sweat of my brow; on the other hand, however, I can’t help but feel like every time I stand over the

As William Jacobson and others have pointed out, the progressive media establishment — after having spent years now trying to pin every last national show of violence on the “right wing,” and having spent the days leading up to the identification of the alleged Marathon bombers yet again rehearsing that same formula — is, in a surreal show of arrogance and contempt for the citizens they supposedly help to “inform,”

Read and discuss. My own brief response: when I heard Peter King using the Boston response to call for additional surveillance cameras in cities, presumably government owned, I was put off. Like, viscerally. That was my initial reaction — and not just because I’m reliably non-photogenic. Rather, because it seems to me that store cameras, bank cameras, and personal cell phones, etc., did the work here, and I’m fine with

Discuss new developments here. For instance, I’m told that the Tweet from the suspect’s hacked Twitter account making the rounds is a hoax [potentially]. Also, it seems the brothers were living here as legal immigrants but were not citizens (according to FOX). [update: new report says naturalized citizens] Meanwhile, as the day goes on, I’ll be haranguing David Sirota on Twitter. I invite you to join me. Because among other

Tamerlan is dead following a police shootout with police last night. BREAKING NEWS: Multiple explosions echoed from inside a house as police in Boston massed inside a perimeter set up to contain the remaining suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing. The situation was fluid, and the latest development came in the city’s Watertown section after a chaotic night of mayhem that included the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology

If Congress won’t do as he demands, he’ll do it himself. Because sometimes a republic can be messy, and, well, we can’t wait. Forward! I sure hope he’s thought this through. I don’t think the gun owners of the US are going to be as accommodating of his temper tantrums and subsequent attempts at dictatorship as, say, the GOP establishment has been. And I think if he starts labeling gun

Or something. Frankly, I don’t much care. The only “win” on gun control the government and its incipient police state can ever affect will be forced confiscation, and when that’s attempted, the dynamic changes completely. So the National Journal, which keeps pretending that it’s “reporting,” can spin all it likes. Politicians — like those in Colorado — can vote to take away our liberties. Doesn’t mean we’ll go along with

Dude: if you’re looking for disaffected, anti-government white people who build nail bombs, I think I have a lead for you. But let’s keep this between us right now — at least until we’re able to do some further digging. Like for instance, has anybody checked to see where certain college professors / political mentors were on the day of the marathon bombings? Or if any of them showed up