And yes, “conservative” Joe Scarborough stepped in to rehabilitate himself and possibly win himself another invite to the next NRO symposium on fixing Teabaggerism by disagreeing with Mika Brzezinski’s assertion that Cruz doesn’t love his country — he’s just a moron who wants to build a mailing list while trying to destroy the GOP by taking it on a suicide mission with no clear strategy, Cruz is, which is entirely

And that makes me happy, frankly, because I like the guy. In fact, there are many GOPers who I believe, having witnessed the very deliberate attempt by the Democrats to try to cause the people pain, unease, or inconvenience — and even in some cases, threatening them with jail and forcing them to surrender religious convictions — are beginning to recognize that part of the “strategy” of a shutdown (which

Well, maybe not yet.  But the fact that I was able to make you look shows just how beholden we’ve become to a government that controls not only our Amber Alert system but the live footage of visiting Pandas — and soon, if it gets its way, will be able to hold our health care over our heads should we not buckle to its “need” for constant new revenue streams.

Even if it turns out this supposedly off the record quip from Putin isn’t attributable to him, I take the demi-Voltairean position that, if it isn’t real, we most certainly would be within our rights to invent it: Negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, shits on the board and then struts around like it won the game. Right now,

If you are going to be the most transparent administration ever, you have first to create and then facilitate a standard narrative, one that is dutifully repeated by a compliant and complicit set of sycophants and media enablers, then disseminated with a calculated and controlled rigor to make sure it remains constant and consistent. After all, transparency means allowing for the people to see the goings on of government, and

From the Daily Caller: Liberal comedian Bill Maher — wait!  Stop right there.  In fairness, Maher identifies as a libertarian.  It’s just that he’s the  kind who believes in a powerful central government, socialized health care, a State-run, command-and-control economy, and the removal of free speech, freedom of conscience, or free association rights of those groups whose messages he doesn’t approve. Which fuels the confusion. Now that we’ve got that

Given Speaker Boehner’s (wrongheaded, ignorant, and quasi-strategical) surrender to the progressive narrative about a potential “default” in the event of a failure by Congress to vote for a debt ceiling increase (as a side note, the Dems voted in the minority against a 2006 raise, 52-48, content that the GOP “compassionate conservatives” would do the work for them; the new wrinkle today is the TEA Party conservatives and constitutionalists who