This is the kind of thing one has come to expect out of Hobbits ruthlessly using their nefarious powers to hold the President and the American people hostage, threatening them with extremist defaults, anarchical government shutdowns (which were clearly a cause for major concern, and a pressing issue in the lives of nearly every citizen), and the suicide bomb vests of political jihadis willing to let the country burn just

Sort of reminds you of the old joke, “why did the man climb the mountain” — although the traditional punchline, “because he can,” gets replaced here by the more subtle “because He can.” Time to admit what we all know to be the case:   If you are going to try to restrict religious liberty by decree, and then use the instrumentalities of your police state to enforce that theft of

A:  Um, when people maybe die because of it? CNS News, “‘You Call This a Glitch!?!’ – ‘Robocop’ or Healthcare.gov?”: Many in the media insist on dismissing the problems with the Healthcare.gov website as mere “glitches.” The term seems to trivialize the amount and severity of problems the Obamacare website is having. Software engineers have told CBS News the website is simply poorly designed. “How do you tax people and

But don’t get too excited:  eventually John Roberts will rule that Executive discretion allows Obama to pick and choose who gets penalized — er, I mean “taxed” — for failing to sign up for exchanges that aren’t functional, by way of a portal that isn’t workable, that require a health insurance mandate for patients that doctors refuse to see.  Also, the judge has refused to issue an injunction, meaning naturally

h/t Daily Caller

People like Mitch McConnell, John McCain, Pete King, and a host of others — not to mention the majority of GOP opinion-drivers — seem downright giddy over what Pete King jubilantly Tweeted was a “defeat” of Ted Cruz. Now, leaving aside the strange, offputting, petty, and rather myopic luxuriating being engaged in over the supposed defeat by Republican dinosaurs and entrenched neostatists of a man who, having been elected by

As has been the case for some time now, progressive journalists, citing a number of conservative economists, continue to make the case that the creation of mostly part-time jobs under the Obama Administration has no tie to ObamaCare. Of course, this is not an actual answer to the concerns being raised by those of us who understand arithmetic: whether or not something that we are repeatedly told is not yet

Mark Levin on his show last evening gave a more thorough rebuke to Will than shall I offer here, so I suggest if what you’re looking for is a detailed analytical breakdown of what is, in short, a rationalization for “strategic” surrender and a sophistic attempt to conflate Constitutionalism with such a strategy, please go visit Levin’s podcast. From my perspective, a reply rather simple, and takes few words, to

Discounting for a moment the appeal to the leader of a revolutionary army in making an appeal for TEA Partiers to take fewer risks and fight smarter, let’s just take a quick look at the premise, as summarized in an email I received: ICYMI, my new Washington Post column “The Tea Party needs a General Washington.”  Washington refused to send his troops on suicide missions, picking smaller, winnable fights instead,

Just a suggestion:  next time we hire a Chief Executive, let’s try to make sure he or she has at least a discernible record of life experience outside of mau-mauing the flak catchers or dreaming of his or her fucking father. I mean, pick up a wrench or change a tire, for Chrissakes! Trust me: things will run a lot more smoothly this way. You’re welcome. (h/t nr)