Which, if you think about it, makes sense: low-skill Mexicans coming across the border are going to wreck the environment with their panting CO2 omissions whether they’re here or not. So. May as well keep them closer to home, where they can at least perhaps be rehabilitated. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised to hear the GOP use this as part of their argument for pushing comprehensive immigration reform —

What’s left to say, really? The Left has learned that, in a mainstream media environment owned by its pro-big government attendants and progressive guards, no lie is big enough that it can’t be massaged into a “half truth” or “narrowly true” statement by some motivated political hack bent on protecting a given narrative. Call it Terminator 5: Rise of the Anti-Foundationalists. That this is possible because we, as a society,

Dear Rep Lewis, While we in the TEA Party movement — that is, those Americans who stand and fight for constitutional principles, the sovereignty of the individual, and the epistemology of the Enlightenment — appreciate your timely reminder of the Democratic Party’s past involvements in segregation and the brutal subjugation of parts of the citizenry, we would like to correct your latest attempt to tie our efforts at resisting the

It is clear — and yes, I’m willing to debate any person from the right’s opinion complex — that DC is invested in DC solely, that the federal government, and both parties who comprise it (with few very obvious exceptions:  the GOP establishment, for example, will simply not back conservative candidates, even though it is conservative lawmakers, and those running for such positions, who are working overtly and unapologetically to

Are we allowed to believe any of this? Or does merely even bringing it to light as an historical fact constitute proof our “extremism” — the kind that the feds have now determined make us far more dangerous than those who crash our planes into buildings and seek, by their own organizational admission, to take down the West? I ask because I care.  And of course, because I’m racist.

Jonah Goldberg takes on the true believers who, now that the ends have justified the means and the lies Obama and the Dems sold us created “settled law”, are “puzzled” by Republicans’ refusal to “engage in policy debate” — as if the GOP was given a chance to do so to begin with, having been shut out of any discussion of ObamaCare.  Writes Goldberg: Ross Douthat is right when he tweets: “Furor

But of course, there’s nothing scientific about any of this:  clearly, Andreas Madestam (from Stockholm University), Daniel Shoag and David Yanagizawa-Drott (both from the Harvard Kennedy School) are engaging in rightwing conspiracy mongering, says Doug Mataconis: The leaps of logic that Veuger, Pethokoukis, and Noonan are engaging in here would made an Olympic high  jumper jealous. As I’ve already noted, it’s very dubious that the Tea Party movement of 2009-2010

No, the fact that the Obamacare administration knew isn’t a shocker — unless, of course, you were either a blinded progressive ideologue who didn’t realize that Obama would have no trouble shooting his footsoldiers once they’d fulfilled their purpose of selling this pile of shit; or were one of those who continued to insist Obama was a garden-variety liberal Democrat who, though he differed with us on policy, nevertheless had

We’ve spoken here of the militarization of our police forces and bureaucratic agencies — something Angelo Codevilla explores at length in this piece.   A bit (h/t sdferr): Increasingly, the US government’s many police forces (often state and local ones as well) operate militarily and are trained to treat ordinary citizens as enemies. At the same time, the people from whom the government personnel take their cues routinely describe those who

They’re probably also shocked about the success of shows like “Duck Dynasty” and the failure of movies like “Lions for Lambs.”  Which is to say, when you live in the world of fantasy, reality becomes an opponent, rather than a state of affairs unburdened by its own biases and false consciousness. Without casting too wide a net — much of California outside its urban and governing centers are more trapped