The pundits — including the high-brow wonks at Foreign Policy Magazine — sniffed and made fun of her at the time.  But then, to do so back then was de rigueur, so you can’t really blame them.  After all, easy pile-ons against a wolf-slaughtering tundra hoochie and her outdated Willa Catheresque-type first wave feminism are more socially rewarding, among the elites in DC, then is allowing that real pragmatism comes

You get this line from Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres (who I always thought was one of the best female stand-ups) at last night’s Oscars, which I didn’t watch — ironically and precisely for the very reason that is hinted about in the joke: “Possibility No. 1: 12 Years a Slave wins best picture. Possibility No. 2: You’re all racists. And now, welcome our first white presenter, Anne Hathaway.” Luckily, no

A web ad?  Well, that’ll teach the sickly little shit. I haven’t seen it yet, but so long as they ended it with a convincing “harumph!” I’d say they’ve done their fighting for the week. Next up, Happy Hour! Then sometime next week, perhaps the GOP establishment can hire one of those crop dusting planes to fly over Reid’s home town in Nevada and skywrite “Our Good Friend Harry Reid

For the children! Apparently newly elected New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio didn’t get the memo from President Obama today about being your Brother’s Keeper. De Blasio is blocking four charter schools – run by the Success Academy charter school network – from opening or expanding, rolling back an offer made to the charter network by his predecessor, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, to co-locate in spaces not being fully used

Because spending cures all! If no one else is going to say it, I will: the only thing shovel-ready about this guy’s boondoggles is all the bullshit he piles up trying to sell them. That this country didn’t vote him out of office — due in large part to the GOP’s efforts to win only with one of their own corporatist big government establishment candidates, or else play the role

Lots of our rights will soon be taken away for “safety”. But in this case, the irony is, the first amendment right to wear a shirt depicting your country’s own flag is being trumped by a recognition that racial thuggery might ensue as a result of offense taken by non-assimilated Mexican students at the temerity of American students to wear an American flag on their shirts during Cinco de Mayo.

So, like, you know. Anyway, here’s the scoop. My wife and I decided we needed more space, part of which is because my wife wants her mother to move here from Utah to live with us and her grand kids. We were able to find a wonderful house, which breaks ground sometime in the next couple weeks, that should be finished by August or September. Fortunately, the house is only

One of the supreme ironies of my lifetime — at least, from my perspective — has been the dogged adherence even the most erudite of cosmopolitan Jews have shown toward the Democratic Party, even as the Party itself has grown increasingly hostile to Israel, increasingly removed from at least basic support for free market principles, and more and more obviously the vehicle of the New Left, who back before they