Winston Smith could not be reached for comment.  But if he could, he’s probably be thinking something like, “well, that’s kind of a bummer” — though he wouldn’t dare say it aloud. As Phil C notes in an email, “I’d say the prospect of this not being an addendum to the gun-grabbers data base are approximately zero.”  True.  But I’ll go him one further:  I think then end game of

Tom W sent along a piece from Belmont Club and asked if I had thoughts on the subjects it tackles.  I answered him back via email, but I figured I may as well go ahead and post my brief reply here, as well.  Because why not, right? First, Richard Fernandez, PJM, “The Third Party”: William Galston, writing in the Wall Street Journal warns that the institutional Republican Party — the

This time, from Daniel Pritchard, alerting me to a piece by “journalist” Sarah Hill, writing in the Boston Review Blog, “Ted Cruz’s Castro Complex” Writes an apparently quite self-satisfied Mr Pritchard: Good afternoon! Online today at the Boston Review Blog, journalist Sarah Hill writes of Ted Cruz’s Castro Complex, “the disorder in which a professed hatred of Castro belies a perversely flattering fixation on Castro’s political genius, and in Cruz’s

Wheeeee! Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner: Many Americans shopping for better health insurance deals promised by the two-week-old Obamacare system are instead being slapped with rate shock, including savings-sapping deductibles and co-pays, according to multiple reports from around the country. For some able to get the problem-plagued Obamacare website to work, the so-called “deals” the system is coughing up around the country include $12,600 deductibles, co-pays of up to 40 percent,

How dare he? I mean, doesn’t this uppity Cruz fellow realize that, by starting a fight he couldn’t possibly win, he harmed the GOP — who without him never would have started a fight in the first place, and so would have not won a lot sooner? The goal is to get the capitulation over with. By drawing it out, you’re just making it more obvious how feckless the GOP

— Or if they do, they don’t much mind. Words can’t begin to express my disgust with those people who would rather play the game of politics than defend the principles of liberty and the sanctity of the Constitution. I won’t live as a subject. So if I’m forced to, I plan to make some of those who forced us into accepting such a fate my own personal prison bitches.

If you follow the GOP mouthpieces on Twitter, the running meme has been that conservatives — because of their stubborn, unrealistic expectations — harmed the Party, who without them may have been able to win certain concessions from Obama, who as we all know is a post-partisan, pragmatic fellow eager to compromise, just not when he’s being held hostage by wacko bird demands that, say, Congress have to live under

Caucus of Dems and some in GOP will once again give Obama all he wants, is my guess.  And they have to:  because Ted Cruz, as Jen Rubin reminds us this morning by way of a retweet, is probably a Democrat sleeper agent — and the TEA Partiers, the Dems and some GOPers keep reminding us, are “nutty” terrorists who must be purged from the Big Tent.  To, you know,

I’m sure I linked this back in August, but I’m going to post it here again, first because it needs repeating, and second because I think the surrender caucus — who is both comprised of, and or advocates on behalf of, the geniuses who have stopped virtually none of this since the TEA Party they so despise propelled them into the House majority — need to be shown yet again