h/t Daily Caller

People like Mitch McConnell, John McCain, Pete King, and a host of others — not to mention the majority of GOP opinion-drivers — seem downright giddy over what Pete King jubilantly Tweeted was a “defeat” of Ted Cruz. Now, leaving aside the strange, offputting, petty, and rather myopic luxuriating being engaged in over the supposed defeat by Republican dinosaurs and entrenched neostatists of a man who, having been elected by

As has been the case for some time now, progressive journalists, citing a number of conservative economists, continue to make the case that the creation of mostly part-time jobs under the Obama Administration has no tie to ObamaCare. Of course, this is not an actual answer to the concerns being raised by those of us who understand arithmetic: whether or not something that we are repeatedly told is not yet

Mark Levin on his show last evening gave a more thorough rebuke to Will than shall I offer here, so I suggest if what you’re looking for is a detailed analytical breakdown of what is, in short, a rationalization for “strategic” surrender and a sophistic attempt to conflate Constitutionalism with such a strategy, please go visit Levin’s podcast. From my perspective, a reply rather simple, and takes few words, to

Discounting for a moment the appeal to the leader of a revolutionary army in making an appeal for TEA Partiers to take fewer risks and fight smarter, let’s just take a quick look at the premise, as summarized in an email I received: ICYMI, my new Washington Post column “The Tea Party needs a General Washington.”  Washington refused to send his troops on suicide missions, picking smaller, winnable fights instead,

Just a suggestion:  next time we hire a Chief Executive, let’s try to make sure he or she has at least a discernible record of life experience outside of mau-mauing the flak catchers or dreaming of his or her fucking father. I mean, pick up a wrench or change a tire, for Chrissakes! Trust me: things will run a lot more smoothly this way. You’re welcome. (h/t nr)  

me:  “Hi.  I would like to keep my current health care.  Is that cool?” 800 number: me:  “Also, I’m okay with my current doctor, so, no need to make any changes there, either.” 800 number: me:  “See, I don’t really need coverage for some of the stuff you guys are asking me to buy, so I’d just as soon look elsewhere, if that’s okay with you.” 800 number: me:  “So. 

That’s the bad news. The good news, though, is that they’re set to receive a better plan — in which they receive even broader benefits while paying less, which their own doctors will happily accept as part of the new health care reality — because math as an intellectual or logical currency only gains primacy under the outmoded beliefs of Enlightenment thinkers with their rigid adherence to a conceptual framework

Dodgers lose. USC Trojans lose. I don’t even have a local NFL team to root for. Have at it.