Lucky for us, he’s delved deeply into our political history and plumbed the kinds of insights that perhaps we who live within the forest can’t see for the trees. Which I suppose is why he’s publicizing his book, The Unwinding, in the Guardian. For instance, Mr Packer tells us: America’s postwar responsibilities demanded co-operation between the two parties in Congress, and when the cold war waned, the co-operation was bound

Let me rephrase Mr Pethokoukis’s question for those operating in today’s post-Constitutional milieu: “Will Democrats (and certain very “progressive” Republicans) get away with buying votes by essentially stealing mortgage investment money that has always assumed to be secured — completely violating the spirit of eminent domain, even post-Kelo, and creating a 21st version of the all-encompassing Commerce Clause, while effectively moving toward the nationalization of mortgage lending?” And having re-phrased

Not sure if this was before or after he went and pandered to the Hispanic caucus, but I’m quite certain he’d already told a group of obstreperous Hobbits acting the thorn in his complacent, government-centric orange-ish side, to get their asses in line. And he did this without incident. Once again proving my theory that irony lightning is a myth. Like the Loch Ness Monster. And blue dog Democrats. Or

…and Ron Reagan Jr wonders if Obama doesn’t appear rather (I’m assuming, unusually) dark in the ad.   Which, the President does spend a lot of time on vacation and on the golf course, and his new gray perhaps heightens his natural contrast, but I suppose it could be something far more malevolent, an attempt by the Klansman making the NRA ad to really pimp Obama up a notch. Though I’ll

Something I’ve broached myself, but seeing as how I’m a fringe conspiracy nut, I’ll reference an organization that is a hair less Visigothy than am I.  NetRightDaily: “Political campaign intervention in 501(c)(4)s was not something we have previously dealt with very much.” That is how Holly Paz, in 2010 the manager of the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) Exempt Organizations technical office, based in Washington, D.C., described to congressional investigators her

Meanwhile  (and setting aside the strained sneering at, and predictable low-ball estimates of, the short-notice, mid-work day crowd size), I give you glorious progressive success stories by which to compare.  The people rising up! Fighting the military industrial complex, the shady Jewish conspiracy, the patriarchy! Not to mention our own historic President’s massive, world-changing appeal. They’re frightened, the ruling class and its useful idiots.  Again.  I can smell it.  

That would by Diana DeGette, a woman now infamous for not understanding that the magazines she was pushing to ban on firearms weren’t disposable. These are the kinds of “leaders” we pick, the kinds of people who we have given power of us as a de facto ruling class. But that’s all gravy.  What’s nice here is that someone finally put the question to a Democratic politician who has, during

They’ve since backed off, but it’s pretty clear they were hoping their early, pre-reported attempts to intimidate a particular demographic from attending a public event being put on by elected officials was an active decision by the Capitol Hill Police force. At every level of government — where the power lies, and where the powerful are insulated and protected by their hired guards and their media enablers — the TEA

The supreme irony? ABC’s Brian Ross is reporting that a person with a similar name may have ties to the TEA Party! Okay. So I made that part up: A Houston man is accused of threatening to kidnap, murder and burn U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and his father and also to “blow up” the sun if he wasn’t paid $3 million. Nick Gates was being held Tuesday in

They will get you on something. And you will pay for your refusal to kiss the ring. Bank on it: The West Virginia eighth-grader who was suspended and arrested in late April after he refused to remove a t-shirt supporting the National Rifle Association appeared in court this week and was formally charged with obstructing an officer. As CBS affiliate WTRF reports, 14-year-old Jared Marcum now faces a $500 fine