… but when it is by their own pimp one wonders how long the outrage will last. The U.S. Justice Department has seized without notice comprehensive phone records for reporters and editors at the Associated Press, prompting the news agency to protest Monday directly to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. “I am writing to object in the strongest possible terms to a massive and unprecedented intrusion by the Department of
May 13, 2013
“Chaos and Corruption on the Southern Border: A Texas Rancher Speaks”
A funny thing happened to Doug Ross on the way to Blogcon. Turns out much of our southern border is already indistinguishable from Mexico, according to a rancher he met on the plane. And that’s just the politics and the corruption. And the street tacos. Which isn’t really funny, I realize, and probably not new information for most of us, save for maybe the extent. But it’s the extent that’s
Obama on Benghazi cover-up: “there’s no there there”
See? There’s nothing new in any of that whistleblower testimony. We know this because Obama says so. I guess he figures it’s the mainstream press and his apologists and enablers against FOX News, a handful of extremist rightwing talk radio outlets (who are charter members of the VRWC), and the kinds of rightwing blogs that nobody reads anyway. Guess Obama and the left figure they may as well put to
Dronish products of patriarchal competition culture evince passive-aggressive dominance over putatively distressed damsels
Male hubris and the pernicious culture of virility on full display: A high school baseball team in California was in its final practice of the season Tuesday when they heard loud screeching, followed by a young girl screaming. In the parking lot next to the baseball field of Valley High School in Elk Grove, a mother, who was dropping her daughter off for an after-school program, accidentally put her car
decline and fall
If any of you are interested in purchasing one of those Molon Labe shirts advertised on the right side bar (which really are nice; I own one), you should probably do it within the next week. My one non-Chinese advertiser gave it a go for a month here and it didn’t work out, so it’s back to payday loan links and empty space for the once mighty pw. Oh. And
Ezra Klein tries valiantly to defend the IRS
From the 60s hippies and their influential spokespeople hoping to “raise consciousness” and stick it to the Man — they despised attempts to curtail their freedom and the overweening dictates of a bourgeois establishment, with its ossified mores and stultifying religious traditions, they told us, even as they took over the universities and gave us speech codes and political correctness, anti-foundationalism and post-modern relativism — the trajectory of the “transgressive”
Thoughts that should keep you awake at night, 6
If John Boehner knew about the Benghazi emails in March and yet was still refusing to call for a special committee with subpoena power to investigate what it turns out were the murders of American heroes, left alone on a rooftop to die, that our government could potentially have prevented — against the protests of many in his own caucus, most notably Rep Frank Wolf — he is 1) either
