The word?  Conservatism.  

Ken Cuccinelli will lose in Virginia because he’s been seriously outspent by a Left that understands the power of perception, and seriously undersold by an establishment “right” that understands the same thing.   Throw in a “libertarian” candidate who doesn’t have the support of either Ron or Rand Paul, a guy who supports increasing gas taxes, is for a per-mile tax on driving (which would necessarily involve governmental tracking), etc, to

This is the essence of the debate over ObamaCare, distilled:  the liberals (not the leftists, who know this debate isn’t about health insurance at all, but rather about creating permanent clients in order to seize control over the electoral process) believe they know best what every individual American wants and needs, and because of this, they assume that their mandates are compassionate — and that forcing people to accept them

In a New York Times story we learn that the NRSC is pulling contracts with advertising and PR firms who have worked with the Senate Conservative Fund, even going so far as to call individual Senators and warn them that they’d better not employ agencies who have done work with such anti-establishment interlopers, cartoonish true believers who somehow got it into their fevered heads that we need not, as a

…It’s about control.  Power. Consolidation.  Future management advantages over newly-turned subjects. And what better way to do that, in a broken constitutional republic, than by creating ever new clients by “nudging” them toward the conditions for their deciding it fortuitous to follow their own “economic best interests” — that is, by creating the necessity of dependency on government, then presenting yourself as the sugar daddy willing to fund the wants

How can you neuter or divide a unified fighting force if you aren’t willing — as our post-racial, post-partisan President and his various ideological fellow travelers larded throughout the bureaucracies and enjoying appointments to positions from which they can do the most institutional damage — to go ahead and just do it? Todd Starnes: A controversial 600-plus page manual used by the military to train its Equal Opportunity officers teaches

Which, for me, presents a simple solution: have it tattooed on your neck. That’s been my plan for a while now. And I think it may just be time to do it. As Squid has pointed out on several occasions here, the rattle snake is a gracious creature, its rattle acting as a warning to those who may wish to continue invading its space or poking at it with a

Sometimes in order to be seen as transparent, it’s best to bury those things that, were they released, would create the kinds of problems that transparency can sometimes create — particularly when reality resists your will, and engages in institutionalized racism in order to thwart your altruistic plans to save Americans from their own stupidity and lack of deference to their betters. Freedom would be cool and all; unfortunately, it’s

Ezra Klein, at the Netroots conference in 2008, talks about the the deceptive strategy underlying ObamaCare. Bringing me to an important point about these types that isn’t much discussed:  for all their talk about community, they literally step over each other to lay claim the certain ideas or arguments — and in fact are so intent on making sure their intellectual fellow travelers recognize them for their unique genius that