From a commenter on the Denver Post write up:  “Just as well. He would only get an imaginary education at a place like this…” My own thoughts, which I put on Twitter this morning, come down to this:  Evidently, to those Loveland apparatchiks with degrees in education, the world isn’t worth saving if, in order to save it, one most resort to something so gauche as tossing imaginary grenades at

This David Horowitz essay was forwarded along to me by several readers, presumably because in it, Horowitz deals quite a bit with adjusting the messaging that goes along with conservative policy to match and or/ counter the left’s decided rhetorical advantages — namely, the belief, expressed overwhelmingly in exit polls, that the Democrats care about people, while the Republicans, whatever their other virtues (such as they are) do not.  Horowitz

Wow. This guy gets it. And makes it clear that the weathervanes in Congress, who spin willingly with what they perceive to be the present political winds, don’t and, sadly, won’t. Ever. Unless there’s something in it for them, that is. (h/t JohnInFirestone via the Firestone Police Dept. on Facebook)

Another putative conservative organization that, on the executive level at least, is hoping to redefine conservatism as mush RINOism. This is Jeb Bush.  A man who utterly rejects principle when principle becomes difficult to stand on.  Or, as he tries to frame it: we must not layer onto our fundamental beliefs thick black lines of ideology — black lines that we do not allow ourselves to cross. Those black lines

And just so you know it isn’t all gloom and doom around here:  a haiku, offered happily: My military- style assault rifle’s pregnant! Molon Labe, bitches.

The House is said to working on behind-the-scenes secret “immigration reform”; the Senate is about to green-light gun-control measures (a cap on mag capacity, entirely unenforcible “universal background checks,” if I had to guess — which will later be added to a vaguely worded sense of the Senate resolution by Reid, with his controlling the process, giving cover to vulnerable Senators), with perhaps a few Republicans breaking ranks and yielding

…Which we know, because he broke the news at the NYT, a bastion of conservatism.  Seems Rove thinks he can play the left’s game against the right:  define conservatism down so that centrist RINOism becomes the new “conservative right wing,” and the TEA Partiers, constitutional conservatives, classical liberals, and libertarians can become the new fringe Birchers. Of course, this has the effect of positioning the far left as moderate, but

Following that logic, Paul himself will be killed when a few bricks of squirreled-away gold bullion fall from one of his isolated shelves and brain the old crank. Jesus.  Too bad he didn’t dress up as Genghis Khan and pretend to toss a few medals onto the White House lawn.  Obama’d probably name him assistant Secretary of State. (h/t Darleen)