Are we allowed to believe any of this? Or does merely even bringing it to light as an historical fact constitute proof our “extremism” — the kind that the feds have now determined make us far more dangerous than those who crash our planes into buildings and seek, by their own organizational admission, to take down the West? I ask because I care.  And of course, because I’m racist.

Jonah Goldberg takes on the true believers who, now that the ends have justified the means and the lies Obama and the Dems sold us created “settled law”, are “puzzled” by Republicans’ refusal to “engage in policy debate” — as if the GOP was given a chance to do so to begin with, having been shut out of any discussion of ObamaCare.  Writes Goldberg: Ross Douthat is right when he tweets: “Furor

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