And since I’ve been busy on Twitter answering such questions, I figured I put together here a coherent figuration that isn’t forced to fit into 140 character bites. First, let me say this:  it is curious to me that establishment GOP mouthpieces would accuse people like me of living in an “echo chamber” when it is they, who spend their every waking moment sifting through the DC minutia as if

Of course, this is not something that is reserved especially for gun facts.  Most all facts, as it happens, cause this group of sneering, self-satisfied, cloistered morons to instantly flop sweat.  Which is why they are so carefully kept from the show’s panels and hosts. When they aren’t, this happens: Ouch. Somebody at MSNBC is going to lose a job over this.

— Which is one reason why writers in Slate, Salon, the WaPo, the NYT, and elsewhere, have started pushing the meme that the “shutdown” is the “Constitution’s fault.”  In fact, one writer blamed James Madison particularly, citing as a flaw what he here notes in Federalist 58: The House of Representatives cannot only refuse, but they alone can propose, the supplies requisite for the support of government. They, in a

Geraghty, Morning Jolt: I know you’re probably growing tired of “the Obamacare health-insurance exchange websites don’t work” stories but this one leaves you gasping, “What?” Amid all the attention, bugs, and work happening at Healthcare.gov in light of the Affordable Care Act, potential registrants talking to phone support today have been told that all user passwords are being reset to help address the site’s login woes. And the tech supports

Because the only way to win is to fight smart, you see — and fighting smart means kicking the can down the road until you’re all dead, then letting the poor slobs whom you’ve left behind and never truly represented swim in the calamity you helped usher in, while your family lives well off of your remaining connections. Like aristocracy, almost. Because shut up, traitors! Look: We have no party

The reports you have no doubt heard by now are correct: I did in fact agree to meet off the record with myself, having been invited by me to an informal gathering where I was assured I’d be given the freedom to talk to myself with complete candor. And, after what was a rather unexpectedly pleasant and even at times charming experience — it turns out I can be quite

Hey, I don’t collect the data.  But then again, I can’t say I’m terribly surprised, either.  Ammoland: In 1994, when Arizona started its shall issue concealed carry weapon (CCW) program, there was considerable interest in how many and what types of homicides would be related to the new law. I started teaching classes for the Arizona CCW permit when it went into effect, and I immediately noticed that my students

Boston Herald: So the government shutdown continues. Although promises to make furloughed federal workers whole with back pay raises the question when is a “furlough” just another taxpayer-paid vacation? But as long as the panda-cam at the National Zoo is shut down and parking lots are roped off at national parks, we’ll accept for the sake of argument that the shutdown is real. But the president really did promise that

Also, Kathleen Parker, Robert Costa, and Byron York.  Politico: President Obama held an off-the-record meeting with five conservative journalists on Tuesday afternoon. Present at the meeting were Charles Krauthammer, the Washington Post columnist and Fox News contributor; Paul Gigot, the Wall Street Journal editorial page editor; Robert Costa, the National Review’s Washington editor; syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker; and Washington Examiner columnist Byron York, according to a source with knowledge of the meeting. Of

Tourists locked in their hotel by NPS Vaillancourt was one of thousands of people who found themselves in a national park as the federal government shutdown went into effect on Oct. 1. For many hours her tour group, which included senior citizen visitors from Japan, Australia, Canada and the United States, were locked in a Yellowstone National Park hotel under armed guard. The tourists were treated harshly by armed park