Say it ain’t so, Orange Johnnyius!  From Dudley Brown, National Association for Gun Rights: Will your Congressman vote to let President Barack Obama ban wooden stocks and to allow a massive crack-down on firearms manufacturing? I hope not, but that’s what the Republican-controlled House may be on the verge of doing in a vote that could come later today. Let me explain. Last week, I told you about how Chuck

Without beating you over the head too much with an explication of the failings of textualism as an approach toward legitimate (rather than expedient and self-serving) interpretation, I’ll try to place it in some — ahem — context, especially for those who believe a “critical reading” of a text like that  of the “Gettysburg Address” can be shorn of its context and read in a populist manner based on how

…The outfit Mitch McConnell and Karl Rove find much more important to hector, malign, and vilify than they do Democrats — who as we know by now, the convenient myth-making and propagandizing to the contrary, are Democrats only in the sense that they aren’t establishment Republicans. Establishment Republicans are the new Democrats (mostly of the JFK variety), while today’s Democrat party — often unbeknownst to those who vote for it

— Which headline, I take it, is supposed to ooze of irony — but which misses the central fact that Obama, by dint of being black, can’t commit a racially insensitive faux pas.  Nor be a racist. I know this because, if he’s taught me nothing else, Spike Lee has taught me this. And Spike Lee is, like, the late-twentieth-century’s very own Frederick Douglass.   Except without the having been subjected

Unfortunately, it turns out the major media — in addition to being an activist arm of the progressive movement — are also given to bouts of (well-deserved) self-loathing, and being treated like lowly useful idiots by someone so Historic and Transformative as Barack Hussein Obama….well, that’s like letting Madonna take a shit on you on stage, or getting to sniff and then cuddle one of Kurt Cobain’s vomit-riddled t-shirts!  Sure,

As whatever it is that has infested our intestinal tract here at casa de protein wisdom continues to ebb and flow — with an emphasis on the flow — we as its hosts and servants continue to muddle on and through, serving as parent volunteers on school field trips, wrestling coaches, tournament-grade wrestlers, and an extraordinarily powerful 19-month old who, though he’s been battling the the runs, continues to amaze