But of course, there’s nothing scientific about any of this:  clearly, Andreas Madestam (from Stockholm University), Daniel Shoag and David Yanagizawa-Drott (both from the Harvard Kennedy School) are engaging in rightwing conspiracy mongering, says Doug Mataconis: The leaps of logic that Veuger, Pethokoukis, and Noonan are engaging in here would made an Olympic high  jumper jealous. As I’ve already noted, it’s very dubious that the Tea Party movement of 2009-2010

No, the fact that the Obamacare administration knew isn’t a shocker — unless, of course, you were either a blinded progressive ideologue who didn’t realize that Obama would have no trouble shooting his footsoldiers once they’d fulfilled their purpose of selling this pile of shit; or were one of those who continued to insist Obama was a garden-variety liberal Democrat who, though he differed with us on policy, nevertheless had

We’ve spoken here of the militarization of our police forces and bureaucratic agencies — something Angelo Codevilla explores at length in this piece.   A bit (h/t sdferr): Increasingly, the US government’s many police forces (often state and local ones as well) operate militarily and are trained to treat ordinary citizens as enemies. At the same time, the people from whom the government personnel take their cues routinely describe those who

They’re probably also shocked about the success of shows like “Duck Dynasty” and the failure of movies like “Lions for Lambs.”  Which is to say, when you live in the world of fantasy, reality becomes an opponent, rather than a state of affairs unburdened by its own biases and false consciousness. Without casting too wide a net — much of California outside its urban and governing centers are more trapped

…it’s maybe time to rethink your propaganda.  Because come on:  if any “center-rightist” beside John McCain is going to fall for it, it’s David Frum.  And even he sheds his “no labels” shield to go all smarmy on your asses: I already had a high-deductible plan. Now I can buy a plan with double the deductible for only $200 a month more. — davidfrum (@davidfrum) October 27, 2013 Of course,

Let me disabuse you of that notion, then. “Socialist history curriculum strides toward Philadelphia schools”: City council members in Philadelphia have given the go-ahead to a resolution to allow a socialist historian’s view of America, via his “A People’s History of the United States,” to be part of the public high school curriculum. The book, by Howard Zinn, looks at American history through the lens of the working people, and

Remember all this? J Nolte, Breitbart: Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” David Axelrod, a senior advisor to President Obama during his first term, admitted that only a “vast majority” of Americans can keep their health insurance plan if they like it. This is the first admission (I am aware of) from a top administration official that President Obama’s relentlessly-repeated solemn promise to the American people that “If you like your

Okay, time to stop tip-toeing around the obvious: this guy is so needy, and so desirous of pleasing his captors, that he has become an active agent for their cause.  And they know it. The unsettling truth is this:  if John McCain didn’t exist, the progressives would need to invent him. — Or else, they could rely on Princess Lindsay and a few other, I suppose. But still.

As I noted the other day, I took great joy in voting to distance myself from the donut hole — Denver / Boulder, mostly — that runs Colorado, and does so in ways that those in the surrounding areas despise and have taken to simply disregarding: people giggle at the hopeless rubes making this charge at new statehood, but the truth is, we know it isn’t going to happen. We