The (Establishment) Empire Strikes Back. Here’s a clue: teaching people how to best massage the truth while speaking in euphemisms and empty platitudes, is not civil. It is dissembling in dulcet tones, using gentle language. And the more we reward empty, feel-good rhetoric, the more we reward the emotionalism and bumper-sticker politics of the left. So. Fuck your “civility.” Dicks.

“Another Triumph for the Greens,” Jonathan Last, Weekly Standard: It so happens that in the last six months, a lot of people have suddenly discovered their dishwashers don’t work as well as they used to. The problem, though, isn’t the dishwashers. It’s the soap. Last July, acceding to pressure from environmentalists, America’s dishwasher detergent manufacturers decided to change their formulas. And the new detergents stink. One of the key ingredients

Oh, wait. You can fact-check that? Well. Okay, then. — Wait, look! Bunnies!

Turns out you don’t have to live in Wisconsin to pay the benefits of Wisconsin teachers. So they’re protesting against you, too, you out-of-state private sector pigs. Why do you hate the working man?

Pragmatism! Somebody’d better contact these “moderate” Republicans and tell them that to “compromise” on something that is to the left of FDR, for Chrissakes, is to surrender the country. Period. Full stop. Thing is, if Walker’s coalition breaks down, Ohio will do the deed. That supposed GOP “moderates” are looking for some cheap grace here is repulsive enough. But doing so after watching the thuggish, childish, and downright anti-democratic behavior

Think Gettysburg: Gettysburg was a battle in a war over federalism and states’ rights — in this case the dubious and odious “right” to treat human beings as chattel — a cause that has given the phrase a notorious name for over a century and a half. Madison (ironically, named after a Founder and drafter of the Constitution) is also a battle over states’ rights — in this case the

Kathy Griffin — who was famously jeered while taking shots at Bristol Palin — has decided to move her schtick to more friendly environs, and will play “Tammy Jean, a conservative home-schooling Tea Party candidate rumored to be based on Sarah Palin,” on an upcoming episode of “Glee.” So brave. Millions of teenage girls — and one grown man in fuzzy bunny slippers nibbling a boutique cupcake — will squeal

Eat the rich. And spit at on soldiers. Well, figuratively, at least. Freedom!

Email from bh: Can’t give that good of a report because I was doing a bunch of grunt work (driving people, getting food for volunteers, etc) and couldn’t hear the speakers over the opposing protesters when I was there. The opposing crowd surrounded us, kept walking through our group to disrupt the rally and/or provoke a confrontation and tried to drown out the speakers. A few people I spoke to

RCP: “The process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service,” Roosevelt wrote in 1937 to the National Federation of Federal Employees. Yes, public workers may demand fair treatment, wrote Roosevelt. But, he wrote, “I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place” in the public sector. “A strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to