Funny, but I can remember when the left was very anti-establishment and very anti-po-po — and the police, in turn, were quite suspicious of the left. Those were the days before the Constitution died, though, and before cronyism began spreading across the political spectrum with every interest group staking its claim.   For the political arm of our local police forces, taking away a citizen’s ability to be his own first

… calls those who think what McDonnell has done is both irresponsible and an affront to those responsible for his being elected “purists”. — Meaning, you know: fringe extremists who fetishize the Constitution and who aren’t open to common-sense reforms to hidebound old texts written by misogynistic racists who were banging their slaves. Or who resist an exciting, hip new rebranding to a moribund anti-government image, one that simply doesn’t

Gee, I hope she has tenure. Of course, the progressives — knowing themselves to be on the side of good and right — would never associate themselves with the atrocities of other leftists across the 20th century whose long-term aim was disarmament of the citizenry. Right up until such time as they can smell the Utopian finish line. At which point, Bill Ayers can perhaps step in and explain, rationally,

Redundant, yes.  But what’s left to “argue,” really?  We’re at the point of competing assertions, and the truth matters little — and facts even less so. But we soldier on.  For the children. And for once I don’t write that ironically. Charles Cooke, NRO: As things stand, the Firearm Owners Protection Act mandates the federal government to destroy within 24 hours any information that it gathers during background checks; all

Andrew Malcolm, IBD, “Obama, creator of the sequester crisis, decries crises created for political gain”: To hear President Obama talk about the so-called budget cuts known as sequestration, his two-year-old idea of those required slashes in federal spending didn’t turn out to be such a good idea after all. As usual with President Obama, however, the failure of his own plan is not his fault. The president, his Cabinet secretaries

um … becoming?? h/t Smitty

Itself proposed by Presidential advisers and approved by Obama, who is now busy blaming the Republicans for having the temerity to adopt his plan — when he isn’t claiming that his plan wasn’t his plan at all. Meanwhile, GOP House Speaker John Boehner is showing signs of desperation — mostly, because he can’t seem to find a way to surrender that doesn’t involve his once again caucusing with the Democrats,

Why do the Democrats hate blacks and the poor? And I’m being serious here: this should be the rallying call of the pro-second amendment groups. To drive some of these points home — which are either largely ignored or disingenuously spun and then dismissed by gun control advocates — allow me to concretize them. In the Colorado legislature, the proceedings of which I carried live here, the Republicans proposed an