He was 81 Peter O’Toole, the legendary actor who starred in the classic 1981 (sic – the film is from 1962) film “Lawrence of Arabia,” has died at age 81, his agent told several media outlets including the BBC. The Irish-born star of the stage and screen got his big break when he won the role of British adventurer T.E. Lawrence in the flick. It earned him eight Oscar nominations,

Which means — despite his ardent insistence that no one is more conservative than he (the man who, as Speaker, has presided over the single greatest explosion of debt in American history, despite the GOP having control of the purse strings) — he’s probably not doing the whole opposition party thing correctly. Too, it bears noting that when the GOP leadership is working hand in glove with the progressive left

Why does Paul Ryan need you to explain the “strategy” of losing more slowly when Ryan, and especially Crier Boehner are slagging conservatives rather than being [ostensibly] honest about why they are doing this deal? Why should conservatives accept the GOP Establishment narrative, as trickled down by spokesholes who fail to understand why the great unwashed snowbillies beyond the Beltway no longer have any trust in the meme “Well, we

Which is one of the reasons I don’t have much to say anymore. ObamaCare? Law of the land, can’t be repealed, elections have consequences. Sequester? Law of the land, until it’s not the law of the land — or until the voracious DC pigs need their fix at the trough, at which point that law is essentially gutted in exchange for a promise of savings from future Congresses (that doesn’t

Quinnipiac: President Barack Obama’s job approval among American voters drops to a new low, a negative 38 – 57 percent, as the outlook for Democrats running for Congress and the U.S. Senate fades also, according to a national poll released today. He even gets a negative 41 – 49 percent among voters 18 to 29 years old and a lackluster 50 – 43 percent approval among Hispanic voters. American voters

Because all the polished pols?  They just keep surrendering and dealing and generally fucking things up, kicking the can down the road while they feather their own nests, and expect us to just accept it. And it looks like we’re through with that nonsense.  “Another conservative group comes out against expected budget deal”: Another influential conservative group is warning legislators not to support the expected budget deal being hammered out