A planned protest in favor of a return to constitutional government.  To be thwarted by Obama and the National Guard. For freedom.

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