Courtesy Geoff B, a release from the NRA-ILA, portions of which I’ll reprint here: Governor John Hickenlooper, a former member of a national anti-gun group called Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) founded and funded by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, was just recently joined by thirteen mayors in Colorado to coordinate with President Obama to help pass gun control measures here in Colorado and nationally. Governor Hickenlooper has also
January 1, 2013
“Dear Casey,
“My friend John has been going through a tough spell at work lately. Though he’s a fair boss and a nicely tanned procedural leader of men, try as he might, he can’t seem to win the affections of a small band of rogues and roughnecks who seem to take pleasure in undermining his authority. “As it’s New Year’s Day — and the new year brings with it the promise of
January 1, 2013
January fundraiser begins today [sticky; new posts appear below. FRIDAY UPDATE]
This year is about battling for our liberty. And I can’t be the only one here whose New Year’s resolutions included a determination to honor Capt Mal Reynolds and “aim to misbehave” — for the country, my family, myself, and to affirm my deeply-held principles on individual autonomy and resistance to a tyrannical state run by a cabal of powerful liberal fascists and their corporate cronies. Plus, I’d like to
January 1, 2013
College Bowl Games / Fiscal Cliff surrender open thread
Or, bread and circuses. Have at it!
January 1, 2013
Define: “postmodern compromise”
n: a compromise reached on the basis of reaching a compromise and being able to say a compromise has been reached, regardless of whether the substance of the compromise actually works as a compromise in any meaningful way. See, eg., US Senate Republicans: Early Tuesday morning, the Senate approved a scaled-down package aimed at halting historic tax hikes for most Americans and postponing across-the-board spending cuts, just hours after Congress
December 31, 2012
Happy New Year, all!
That is, to the extent it’s possible. Take solace in family and friends and know that you won’t be alone in your sufferings. It’s barely 8:45 am here, and I’m already drinking. Take that as a sign. Also, I’m going to leave this post here as an open thread of sorts, for when we get the announcement that, naturally, the GOP has folded on the “fiscal cliff crisis” just in
December 31, 2012
NYT Op-ed: “Let’s Give Up on the Constitution”
So argues Louis Michael Seidman, who, as is routine with progressives from Woodrow Wilson onward, is gracious enough to keep the parts of the Constitution he likes, but bemoans the very checks and balances that serve to protect individuals from the government, and deny temporary demagogues the power to affect enormous sudden systemic change. He also (predictably) ignores that the Constitution contains an amendment process, a strategic rhetorical bracketing on
December 31, 2012
This is gom jabbar [McGehee]
In the comment thread to this post I brought up Dinesh D’Souza’s 2010 book, The Roots of Obama’s Rage, which D’Souza touts as a theory of Barack Obama that works. It does, in my opinion, do a very effective job. But in responding to this comment by Pellegri this morning I realized I’ve already been touting a theory of not only Obama but the progressive Democrats he leads, that also
December 30, 2012
Tactics, trajectory, takeover: connecting the dots
Reading through several emails I received this morning it occurred to me that, though each note addressed a disparate bit of leftist dogma, in the aggregate the emails were essentially talking to one another — combining to draw a picture of the contemporary Democratic Party and its complete usurpation by those historically referred to as the New Left. To try to make coherent the connectedness of these various strains of