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,”