Clown nose on or clown nose off?  It’s so hard to tell when intentionalism becomes just another tool for daily pragmatism — crucial when it’s useful to forging an argument, “fundamentally unserious “when it’s showcasing the dangers of embracing textualism as an interpretive paradigm in instances that don’t help “our” side win elections. Either way, does it matter?  Even if they take the clown noses off, you can often still

This morning I was listening to a Levin podcast — not sure which day, I’m generally a few behind — in which Levin conjectured that the media is lined up to protect Obama because in essence, “Obama” (he didn’t use the quotation marks, but it’s what he meant) was the media’s own creation — and rather than having their Victor Frankenstein revelatory moment where it becomes apparent to them that

Andrew Malcolm, IBD: President Obama knows he’s in trouble with the American people. Yes, his job approval has slipped further since Christmas, down to 40%, and is worse than G.W. Bush’s at the same point. But you can tell Obama knows it anyway because he’s fallen back on his path of preferred political action. He’s giving speeches. Many speeches. Campaign speeches. Roll-up-the-sleeves speeches. Point-his-finger speeches. Call-on-others-to-do-something speeches. It’s what Obama

Really?  Well, he’s dead now — and who knows what was done to his body.  So to borrow from the next President of the Amerikka, “what difference does it make?” An internet trailer, Al Qaeda building forces in an election year wherein the incumbent was running on the false narrative that Al Qaeda had all but been eradicated, even as his diplomatic corps worked to bolster and aid the Muslim