Essentially, the progressive argument — which tends to veer toward the predictable (we need to ban “assault weapons,” whatever those are; the Framers never anticipated high-powered weaponry; nobody “needs” a 30 round magazine; the Second Amendment gives power to the government to set up a militia; we need to close the gun show loophole, whatever that is! etc) — comes down to this:  “We’ll tell you what it is you

We all know the GOP leadership is trying desperately to fold.  But that darn Obama just keeps taking their willingness to “compromise” as a sign of weakness, increasing his demand with every new Boehner offer. Who woulda thunk it?  Besides the stupid unnuanced naive Hobbity Visigoths, I mean? Washington Examiner: “If Boehner had made a revenue offer like this out of the gate, it would have been taken more seriously.”

That’s a lot of betting on just the teabagging black helicopter crowd, as Josh Marshall called us in so many words the other day. And by “us,” I mean me.  But you get the idea. If money talks, a lot of people seem to think that, for whatever the reasons, the last nearly 4-years is a good time to invest in guns.  And in gun makers. Go figure!

Matt K. Lewis goes Swift. It’s time to have a national conversation… about the media. But first, let’s recount how they’ve blown the coverage of the tragic school shootings in Connecticut: The media originally reported the wrong name of the alleged shooter. (The suspected killer was Ryan Lanza, they breathlessly reported. Turns out it was actually Ryan’s brother, Adam.) Then, some in the media advertised Ryan’s Facebook and Twitter pages.

Funny, isn’t it, how this guy — and others like him — have no problem feeding themselves from the poison trough that is the USA. In Moore’s case, it’s clear, repeatedly. It’s almost as if he thinks if he calls us all pigs enough times, people will cease noticing the scruffy pink hamhocks, the pork belly flab, and the pie-caked snout that practically define this cheap, populist poseur. Fail.

This would put an end to it once and for all. But because “climate change” legislation and regulation has always just been a progressive Trojan horse meant to give cover to plans for global wealth redistribution, the re-urbanization of “the masses,” and the personal financial interests of “green energy” and or / carbon credit investors, it won’t end — no matter how discredited is the science. And that’s because the

It’s amazing what kinds of things the national media — in their haste to generalize a narrative and create a “moral imperative” that seems always to redound to the implementation of some policy on their political wishlist — leaves out of their reporting. But that’s for our own good.  Because we can’t be expected to understand the moral of any story if it isn’t shaped for us and presented unencumbered

Since the day of the Connecticut shooting, I’ve tried to anticipate every cynical move progressives would likely make to try to capitalize on this (not new) “crisis”.  Because I knew they would — and indeed they have, going so far as to pretend that their calls for less freedom and, as a consequence, a larger police state, is a “moral imperative.”   But having gone on the offensive myself, I can

Many of us are parents ourselves, and most of us are raised by at least one of our parents, be they biological or not.  We don’t need a “Parent-in-chief,” and in fact the very idea speaks to the infantilization of a nation grown more and more dependent on big government. When we elect a president we are electing an executive officeholder. Not Oprah fucking Winfrey. Unless we get back to

There. Now it’s up to those progressives pushing their anti-liberty, pro-police state agenda to argue how it’s compassionate to post “sitting ducks” signs identifying us and our children as soft targets for armed predators — as opposed to allowing a trained, free people with a natural right to defend themselves do just that, if only to put pause to those wishing to act out megalomaniacal slaughter fantasies unencumbered by any