Which, after pleasantries and seating, is about 5 minutes longer than is necessary to say, “forget our agreement.  I want tax hikes. And if I don’t get them, I’m going to blame the Republicans for what we all know is going to be a very shitty set of economic numbers. I’ll call my plan a balanced approach.  The public eats that bullshit up with sprinkles.  Then I’ll call you extremists,

For the fairness.  And equality of outcome, which is the hallmark of social justice.  Andrew Malcolm, IBD: Where’s the fairness from the Fair Share president in only a couple of journalists being threatened over their Obama criticism? How would you like to be among the growing number of aspiring critics of the Windy City Wonder? You point out his lies. His hypocrisies. His cronyism. His duplicities. His waste. His wanton

What can I say?  I’m still here and still fighting — and whether you agree with me or not on any given issue, at least you know that what you read here is what I believe, and that I’m not pandering to any specific audience, or looking for a paying gig writing press releases for the Conservative Victory Group, or organizing conferences for one of any number of TEA Party

Promises of snow from earlier in the week never materialized, so we bought a bit of a break on day 1 — early morning patrol of my compound’s perimeter was a rather ordinary affair, visibility being higher than I’d anticipated, and the lack of any precipitation allowing me to walk both the fence line and rooftop in dry boots and clothing. During my patrol I spotted only two potential looters,

And you thought it was only Boehner who was willing to caucus with Democrats against his own party rank and file.  Katrina Trinko, NRO: House majority leader Eric Cantor is increasingly frustrated with a group of House Republicans who are working against the leadership, and he’s not afraid of voicing his dismay. In a closed-door conference meeting on Wednesday, Cantor told one GOP member that if they blocked the Senate-passed

Well. Close enough. Gee. I hope this doesn’t mean Yglesias has lost his love for the deep throat, too.  Because, politics aside, I hate to watch a man become disillusioned by what once so clearly gave him enormous pleasure and comfort.

Courtesy of Geoff B.  PDF file here, link found here.  Some excerpts: “Assault Rifles”.  The very term “semiautomatic assault rifle” is internally contradictory. In World War II, rifles of standard military power could not be made full automatic, because the recoil (“kick”) was too powerful. The “assault rifle” concept involved cutting the cartridge’s power, and thus its recoil, in half, so that it could be controlled in full automatic fire.

Oh, lookit!  It seems Bob Woodward, who incidentally is old and silly and not terribly liberal-friendly and never really did all that much to bring down Nixon to begin with (and even if he did, he probably did so by being dishonest and mean), isn’t the only reporter who, for the crime of straight reporting, is being harangued by the White House — though without Obama’s consent or knowledge, naturally.

I wrote yesterday, to the dismay of some whom I admire (notably, dicentra, Bill Quick, sdferr, and a few others), that Rand Paul’s “yes” vote on the Hagel nomination — coming as it did on the heels of his having excoriated the phony posturing by Senate Republican Quislings like John McCain, who refused to block the vote, knowing that the result would be a Hagel confirmation, who then put on