Via Darth Levin, Mario Loyola, The American Interest, on the role of the federal judiciary in creating the conditions for usurpation of state powers by the Leviathan I noted earlier today as the primary bridge from Constitutional government to our present post-constitutional predicament. The article is detailed where I was cursory.  Please do take the time to read it.  Here’s a bit to get you started — essentially, Mr Loyola’s

So notes our resident pikachu.  And yet, her spirit remains everywhere — even having stolen into the grubby souls of those who in other contexts would so vulgarly dismiss her. Not sure if that’s ironic or not. Tell you what: I’ll put in a call to Alanis Morissette, then go with the opposite of whatever she thinks. (h/t Darleen)

Has the mainstream press covered this story ? — and if so, have they tackled it with the same eye toward politics as they would had the rogue former cop been a member of the TEA Party? Or even had a name similar to someone who once attended a TEA Party rally? Seriously, this is the first I’m hearing of it; and such an embargo of widespread mainstream media dissemination 

So writes Terry Jeffrey, under what may be the most straightforwardly obvious headline in the history of all headlines, anywhere, ever. Really.  What’s there to add?  I mean, if I start a group called “The Shiitake Mushrooms for Jesus,” that doesn’t make me either a Shiitake muhsroom or a Christian — with the self-styled designation made all the more absurd when I’m witnessed in public spraying ground clear on Shiitake

Washington Free Beacon: The Senate Armed Services Committee will not hold a vote Thursday on the confirmation of secretary of defense nominee Chuck Hagel. The office of Sen. Jim Inhofe (R., Okla.) confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon that the vote has been delayed and that no new date has been set. “Hagel vote won’t be tomorrow in Armed Services,” Politico’s Manu Raju tweeted Wednesday afternoon. “Levin: “The committee’s review of the

You’ve read me make this argument several times now, but let me repeat it yet again:  the way to reestablish first principles is, quite simply, by reestablishing fidelity to the Constitution; and the way to reestablish fidelity to the Constitution is both to follow it as it was written and to acknowledge its clear intentions, both on the macro and micro levels:  the Constitution provides the framework for levels of

And by “we,” I mean those of us who were sickened by the elder Paul’s foreign policy ideas?  Because the son doesn’t sound too terribly much like the father. It’s important to remember that the establishment backed a moderate KY attorney general over Paul in the GOP primaries.  And now they’re seeking to redefine conservatism and pretend that, pushing for the nomination of Bush /Christie or Rubio, is akin to

And people thought I was joking 9-year ago when I predicted that, if we followed the governmental and regulatory trajectory we were on, we’d soon find ourselves having to do mandatory morning exercises in order to justify our (now “free”) health care.  The Hill (h/t Mark Levin): The Obama administration proposed regulations Friday that would prohibit U.S. schools from selling unhealthy snacks. The 160-page regulation from the Department of Agriculture

With Christie or Rubio as his running mate, if I had to guess. And why not?  I mean, it’s not like if you put your ear to the ground and listen attentively you can’t here the slow, steadily-building swell for yet another Bush in the White House — particularly when we finally have the right one this time, a man not tainted with a Reagan connection, one not responsible for

Andy McCarthy, who claims to know a thing or two about the Muslim Brotherhood, seems displeased.  Which is odd, given that I’ve read bloggers praising the strategery of such a masterful willingness to arm the Brotherhood in order to, you know, really keep an eye on them and have a say in what they do going forward.  Having essentially put them into power in the first place.  Presumably to keep