In the comments to my earlier post today, a commenter expresses quite succinctly a view I’m starting to see rather often now on the right from those who are, it seems to me, looking for a way to distance themselves from what I contend is an important fight.  It is a quickly-spreading trope, and one I’d like to address here now.  Argues mt_ molehill: I don’t take a single prosecutor’s

Let’s just say it: our system has broken down.  We are now held hostage by a toxic blend of mob bravado, faux-righteous indignation, and identity politics such that we’re largely impotent in the face of what is an assault on due process and duly-passed state law that is despised by both progressive anti-gun advocates and criminals (who don’t ever really worry about anti-gun laws) alike. That our President and members

Well, that’s what he said in so many words. Pardon me for sounding all Visigothy, Mssrs. Moran and Frum, et al., but it sure does seem to me that Obama is telling the Russians — in a message he wants passed along to Putin — that, once he’s re-elected, he can drop all facades and surrender the US strategic nuclear advantage.  Killing off Reaganism, as so many of his university-era

In other words, free riders continue to ride free! — Or, in other other words, the putative (though always disingenuous) reason for ObamaCare is not fixed by ObamaCare. CNS: President Barack Obama has justified the mandate in his health-care law that requires individuals to buy health insurance by arguing that it will eliminate free riders—that is, people who get health care (often from emergency rooms) but, lacking insurance, never pay

Let’s see: they weren’t witnesses to the shooting.  Nor is the shooting a national matter.  And besides, this is supposedly an “ongoing investigation” (though the police in FL seem to think they were correct in how they handled the case). So why in the world would Trayvon Martin’s parents be testifying before Congress? — mock or no mock? Oh, right:  Fast and Furious ended up arming Mexican drug cartels and

Nik0lai Wenzel, Wallace and Marion Reemelin Chair in Free-Market Economics at Hillsdale College and Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics in the Lutgert College of Business at Florida Gulf Coast University, says it is. Many “conservatives” will not recognize themselves completely in my critique. This is largely because there are so many “conservatisms.” I argue that each involves assertions of private preferences through public means–and that the imposition, in each case,

Sorry, Mr Pethokoukis, but columns like this one are unnecessarily inflammatory and hysterical, playing into the worst fears of small-government types increasingly polluting the GOP base.  It is, in short, unhelpful. Obama, as everyone “sane” knows, is a good man who just happens to be in over his head.  In fact, his policies — which mirror in many ways the policy prescriptions of the putative GOP frontrunner — are working: 

Great to see last year’s draft project and (I hope) 2012 secret weapon, TE Julius Thomas, among those working out informally with Manning.   With the signings of Dreesen and Tamme, and the emergence of Julius Thomas, the TE-as-pass catcher could return to with a vengeance to the Mile High city. Meanwhile, rumor has it that Mark Sanchez and Tim Tebow have scheduled a press conference at which they’ll thumb wrestle

you pussy ass crackers.  And Uncle Toms.   Stop the racism now!  Kill (brown half Peruvian) Whitey!  For justice! (h/t JHo and Pablo)   **** update: In case it shows up on those blue and red posters, you see.  Besides:  we all grieve differently.  For instance, some people cry; others pass along inaccurate stories about their child being shot on a porch, then rush to get a patent on his image.