In North Carolina this time! And no.  I wasn’t, either. So.  As the list of participants is strikingly similar to that of BlogCon 2011, I can only conclude that I evidently didn’t make such a great impression in Denver.  Or else I was completely forgettable.  Kinda like my blog, after c.  2008-9. Either way. — Not that I could have gone anyway:  my wife is expecting our second son on

You just thought I did because you are all racist haters who are too stupid to understand the nuances of my non-blaming of right wing whites for the perpetuation of dangerous stereotypes that, because they are perpetuated and given political legitimacy by racist hatey right wing bitter clingers, may have lethal consequences. Which is not the same as blaming any of these white right wing racists and their covert, dog-whistle

Wow. Keep in mind as you read that this is a SCOTUS Justice — one who, had she not been elevated to the Court, might well have been the person arguing this case on behalf of the Obama Administration. Here’s the exchange with Paul Clement, attorney representing the 26 states, who was giving his oral argument: Mr. Clement: “Mr. Chief Justice and may it please the court.  The constitutionality of

…Along with the NAACP, Congressional Black Caucus, etc. “So much hate,” he says. Reached for comment, President Obama’s black half was reportedly outraged by this pussy-ass cracker’s presumptuousness. While his white half, truth be told, kinda sees the old dude’s point. (thanks to JHo)

ABC News released police station surveillance video of George Zimmerman supposedly showing his lack of injuries — the suggestion being that the original police reports, statements made by the police, etc., and subsequent narrative of events offered by the police and prosecutors office were all either false or, at the very least, embellished.  And this, in turn, would suggest a grand and orchestrated conspiracy that began either before the first

CNS: Rep. Trent Frank (R.-Ariz.), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, says Congress should hold a hearing to examine the inadvertantly recorded remarks in which President Barack Obama asked outgoing Russian President and soon-to-be Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to ask incoming Russian President Vladimir Putin to give Obama some “space” because he will have “more flexibility” after the November presidential election here in the United States. Franks described

I know. Pointing this out is unhelpful and possibly paranoid and conspiratorial, and anyway, if Limbaugh would just learn to say things in a way that the left can’t take him out of context, he wouldn’t run into these problems to begin with. So really, if you think about it, it’s mostly his fault. For not being more careful with what he says. Like, for instance, Tony Snow was. And

Yes. Republicans. It is they who are ‘politicizing’ Martin’s death — they who are organizing marches, they who are putting out bounties, they who are selling hoodies and t-shirts, they who have scheduled mock Congressional briefings, they who used the bully pulpit to call for a national soul-searching because we’re somehow collectively complicit in a young man being shot to death while beating a neighborhood watch captain in Florida. Republicans.

Jim Pethokoukis: Given the tone and substance of today’s arguments, it looks like there’s a decent chance the Supreme Court will not only toss Obamacare’s individual mandate (a 62% chance according to Intrade), but all of Obamacare as well. But then what? It seems highly unlikely—to say the least!—that any sort of replacement would pass this year. So now we are talking about 2013, where the issue would get sucked

Well, “conservative” Justices. The liberal justices, some of whom would prefer it if they’d taken an oath to the Canadian or South African Constitutions, one imagines, believe there’s no need to wreck all the goodly social justice just because those well-intentioned, moral legislators who pushed it on us failed to include a severability clause and accidentally overstepped their authority with respect to the (hoary, flawed) Constitution. After all, what’s the