I’d say this is enormously embarrassing, but that’s to short shrift the amount of embarrassment that should be at play here.  But then, the progressive historicists and economic and social illiterates that populate many university Humanities and Social Sciences Departments haven’t the requisite shame to care — and beyond that, they’d merely shift into sophist mode and tell us that the Lincoln of the 1830s-his death is best understood as

See? The problem is never that socialism is an innately unworkable system steeped in an ideology that misreads human nature, eschews experience, and relies upon a totalitarian urged disguised as compassion. Instead, the problem is that it’s never been tried properly — largely because horrible, evil, greedy, capitalist pigs simply won’t allow the good people to do good things for the Greater Good of universal goodliness.  An explanation that is

Any doubt that some of the “conservative” media will try the same thing — and perhaps even write another post-mortem about it? We you to read Twitter today, you’d see many GOP boosters touting Christies potential 60% victory, which would outpace even Reagan’s victory margin in NJ and rank as the second-highest victory margin for a Republican in the state.  They’re also touting how well he’s performing among Hispanics. Amazing

The word?  Conservatism.  

Ken Cuccinelli will lose in Virginia because he’s been seriously outspent by a Left that understands the power of perception, and seriously undersold by an establishment “right” that understands the same thing.   Throw in a “libertarian” candidate who doesn’t have the support of either Ron or Rand Paul, a guy who supports increasing gas taxes, is for a per-mile tax on driving (which would necessarily involve governmental tracking), etc, to

This is the essence of the debate over ObamaCare, distilled:  the liberals (not the leftists, who know this debate isn’t about health insurance at all, but rather about creating permanent clients in order to seize control over the electoral process) believe they know best what every individual American wants and needs, and because of this, they assume that their mandates are compassionate — and that forcing people to accept them

In a New York Times story we learn that the NRSC is pulling contracts with advertising and PR firms who have worked with the Senate Conservative Fund, even going so far as to call individual Senators and warn them that they’d better not employ agencies who have done work with such anti-establishment interlopers, cartoonish true believers who somehow got it into their fevered heads that we need not, as a

…It’s about control.  Power. Consolidation.  Future management advantages over newly-turned subjects. And what better way to do that, in a broken constitutional republic, than by creating ever new clients by “nudging” them toward the conditions for their deciding it fortuitous to follow their own “economic best interests” — that is, by creating the necessity of dependency on government, then presenting yourself as the sugar daddy willing to fund the wants

How can you neuter or divide a unified fighting force if you aren’t willing — as our post-racial, post-partisan President and his various ideological fellow travelers larded throughout the bureaucracies and enjoying appointments to positions from which they can do the most institutional damage — to go ahead and just do it? Todd Starnes: A controversial 600-plus page manual used by the military to train its Equal Opportunity officers teaches