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

James Rosen, fresh from being surveilled by the most transparent Administration ever, breaks the news last evening, citing newly declassified documents, among which was the transcript of Gen Ham, then head of AFRICOM, who was all but disappeared after the incident: Minutes after the American consulate in Benghazi came under assault on Sept. 11, 2012, the nation’s top civilian and uniformed defense officials — headed for a previously scheduled Oval

Instead, the FBI — through a leak –has let it be known that confusion about rules and bureaucratic incompetence, and not intentional or particularly targeted malfeasance within the IRS, were to blame for the completely one-sided targeting of TEA Party groups in the run-up to the 2012 elections. Or, to put it another way, the government has decided, after what it will call careful examination, not to charge itself for

Which, let me just get out in front of this:  5-4 in favor of the boy King, with Chief Justice John Roberts writing for the majority that “once you go half black, you can never go half back,” or “what the plaintiffs assert are ‘appointments,’ I see as ‘physical taxes’ taking the shape of fat Marxist shitheels out to cripple industry, and it is the President’s discretion to use such

I’d heard of this a while back, but until Darleen forwarded me this reminder, I don’t think I ever covered it here — one of the pitfalls of having to follow a political system whose corruption is so endemic it daily threatens to reach critical mass and just implode, leaving nothing behind but a giant pile of flag lapel pins, wingtips, and the occasional cardinal colored pant suit and set