Because the drooling morons who make up the sadly naive base of the party simply can’t understand the 3-D chess the GOP braintrust is playing. Which is why this whole representative government think is really turning out to be quite the hassle — and why lawmakers seem content to subcontract out much of what now comes to have the force of government-centric law to the bureaucratic 4th branch, essentially a

To add to the faux-weighty, ostentatiously self-important irony of SVU “tackling the tough questions” — in the instance Darleen notes, the tough questions being: are famous, southern white female celebrity chefs all at once fearful of / intrigued by the savage Mandingos that roam northeastern cities even if said Mandingos are but figments of the white paranoiacs’ innate racist imaginations, no doubt brought on by an upbringing steeped in race

There is a web site where the owner works very hard on statistics relating to gun-control and crime worldwide as well as US and local. Like the Watts Up With That site does with the global warming/climate change statistics. His posts are full of numbers, graphs, and links to sources for the numbers. In one off main topic post there was this line: It might also help the general understanding

Dale Franks breaks down the numbers: One might […] remark that rising mortgage rates may signal the inevitability of rising interest rates for Treasury bonds. Or, perhaps, vice versa. Whatever. Either way, you should keep in mind that a rise of 1% in Treasury yields works out to an additional $160 billion or so in debt service payments per year. Right now we’re paying about $350 billion a year on

What is particularly interesting to me about the interview is that is shows clearly something I long ago surmised — and subsequently posited while discussing the nascent outlaw! movement (an idea that led to my ouster from polite online “conservative” company, but that now, 4-years later, seems more prescient than “unhelpful” or “fundamentally unserious“) — namely, that the ideas behind Levin’s prescriptions, when divorced from the identity or political label

With the caveat that I haven’t really looked into the details of the story, or the official police response. And yet, it does have the ring of truth to it.  Perhaps Radley Balko would know better. But there is this piece to chew on. Anyway, for your consideration: Dear Jeff, My big brother Ethan, who had Down syndrome, was killed by three police officers earlier this year. His crime? Not

That’s right: the University of Denver, where I once taught argument, lit, and theory — and where Brian Kiteley, as head of the creative writing program and a champion of the free expression of novelists, finds certain ideas unpalatable and in need of censorship if not shunning (not things of the American Psycho or Lolita or Ulysses or Portnoy’s Complaint variety, though; literary danger arises instead in brief polemics or