Compare and contrast: A needy, mentally disturbed University of Wyoming student (and award-winning progressive!) threatens herself with a hate-fucking, blames it on Republicans, is caught for the hoax, and the university takes the “fake but accurate” stance: UW released a statement Tuesday afternoon regarding the citation. “This episode has sparked an important discussion reaffirming that the UW community has no tolerance for sexual violence or violence of any type,” UW

Extrano’s Alley: In what is certainly a sign of things to come, California’s Governor Moonbeam Brown has signed a bill to “send the army” to confiscate guns from those deemed disqualified by state government agencies. Briefly quoting the FOX news report linked above: The bill authorizes $24 million for the state Department of Justice’s Armed and Prohibited Persons program. The money will go to hire more agents to confiscate the

Chechnyan Islamists? Let’s not jump to conclusions. And I’m telling you right now, there’d best not be any “backlash” against the religion of peace and its followers, who have proven time and again that they are all about cooperation and inclusiveness. Now, these “extremists” who fetishize the Constitution and are waging war with their extremist words against a kindly and benevolent (if expansive, convoluted, ineffectual, and overbearing) federal government, with

What’s wrong with Kansas? Evidently, they don’t do sexy Otherness as well as radical chic, westernized Chechnyan bombing suspects. Not only that, but Kansas has dared to pass laws requiring that the state follow the Constitution, even if that means not enforcing federal law. The liberals — who elsewhere are arguing state’s rights with respect to defining same sex marriage (even as they argue the opposite with respect to CA

…who are the moneymen behind “Americans for a Conservative Direction” and “Council for American Job Growth”: Seven technology companies and a software association – all with interests in shaping the immigration debate now underway in Congress — each spent more than $1 million on their federal lobbying efforts during the first three months of this year, new reports shows. Their spending, totaling $13.8 million, swamps the $80,000 one longtime immigration

You’ll want to wear headphones for this one, particularly if you’re at work or have impressionable youth about. But it’s worth the hassle. (thanks to Guido)

Not to diminish your work, Jimmy P, but you may as well have titled your article, “New study suggests the very same thing all the old studies — not to mention our own eyes and ears and experience — suggested, namely, that the job numbers the government puts out are manipulated, that the press who reports them are either corrupt or illiterate (and most certainly incurious), and that people have

First, the left will never ever stop.  Ever.  This you know, and this you’ve read me write about here for like, ever. But disturbingly, what we’re seeing now is a kind of very cynical politicization of grief that goes beyond grief into something else:  a desire to exact revenge against anyone, in any way, for actions committed by someone very specific, in a very specific way. And nowhere is this

Okay, so April having been tax month, I can understand the financial prioritizing by readerthat translated into a rather quiet month on the pw fundraising front.  But now that the stock market is going wild, and the economy is finally taking a dramatic turn for the better, as ABC News assures me every day it has — it’s Summer of Recovery, Episode 4:  Return of the ‘For the Children! —