Because the only way to win is to fight smart, you see — and fighting smart means kicking the can down the road until you’re all dead, then letting the poor slobs whom you’ve left behind and never truly represented swim in the calamity you helped usher in, while your family lives well off of your remaining connections. Like aristocracy, almost. Because shut up, traitors! Look: We have no party

The reports you have no doubt heard by now are correct: I did in fact agree to meet off the record with myself, having been invited by me to an informal gathering where I was assured I’d be given the freedom to talk to myself with complete candor. And, after what was a rather unexpectedly pleasant and even at times charming experience — it turns out I can be quite

Hey, I don’t collect the data.  But then again, I can’t say I’m terribly surprised, either.  Ammoland: In 1994, when Arizona started its shall issue concealed carry weapon (CCW) program, there was considerable interest in how many and what types of homicides would be related to the new law. I started teaching classes for the Arizona CCW permit when it went into effect, and I immediately noticed that my students

Boston Herald: So the government shutdown continues. Although promises to make furloughed federal workers whole with back pay raises the question when is a “furlough” just another taxpayer-paid vacation? But as long as the panda-cam at the National Zoo is shut down and parking lots are roped off at national parks, we’ll accept for the sake of argument that the shutdown is real. But the president really did promise that

Also, Kathleen Parker, Robert Costa, and Byron York.  Politico: President Obama held an off-the-record meeting with five conservative journalists on Tuesday afternoon. Present at the meeting were Charles Krauthammer, the Washington Post columnist and Fox News contributor; Paul Gigot, the Wall Street Journal editorial page editor; Robert Costa, the National Review’s Washington editor; syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker; and Washington Examiner columnist Byron York, according to a source with knowledge of the meeting. Of

Tourists locked in their hotel by NPS Vaillancourt was one of thousands of people who found themselves in a national park as the federal government shutdown went into effect on Oct. 1. For many hours her tour group, which included senior citizen visitors from Japan, Australia, Canada and the United States, were locked in a Yellowstone National Park hotel under armed guard. The tourists were treated harshly by armed park

Rejection of common sense biological and evolutionary observations are much in vogue among the social engineers and their activist counterparts.  But it bears repeating — yet again — that wishing something were so, because in your mind a just world would make it so, does not, in fact, replace what is.  And yet it is we who are labeled anti-science — albeit by those whose idea of science is the

Maybe so. But when you’re a good man on the right side of history, sometimes you have to sacrifice a few pawns to clear the board for your clean run to a Utopian checkmate.  Such sacrifices weigh heavily on our faculty lounge Presiddent, make no mistake.  But in the end, his essential decency — and his love of country, which is in no way negated by the policies he pushes

Gee. Look who was a vile racist teabagger before he wasn’t! I particularly love the bit about how it’s “unpatriotic” to raise the debt limit, given that it’s now traitorous for people like Senator Obama to hold President Obama hostage to arbitrary spending caps that will lead to “economic” shutdowns and “default”. Anarchist! Arsonist! Jihadist! Burn him!

You are “traitors” — particularly if you support organizations like Freedomworks or other plebe uprisings against important people doing important things that your little lizard brains can’t ever hope to comprehend. Because nothing says “I reject my country” more than standing up for its founding ideals and demanding that a government of, by, and for the people deserves elected officials who represent the interests of their constituencies and not their