Harsanyi: it’s social conservatism that will most often turn those with secular sensibilities away from the right. Even within the movement, a libertarian vs. social conservative debate has roiled on forever. This dynamic is only going to change when political expediency becomes a force more powerful than faith — which is to say the day after we pay off the national debt. Now, it’s true that social conservatives can be

But “Memphis Beat” — in which Jason Lee plays a singing New Orleans detective, and DJ Qualls a bumbling patrolman? Gets a second season. It’s a madhouse. A maaaaaaaadhouse…!

EJ Dionne, lies by omission. Of course, in Dionne’s defense, he had to lie. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have a point to make. Q.E.D.! (h/t sdferr)

But we need cap and trade. For the children! Because air pollution, it turns out, may be the cause of autism. Ahem. And you thought they’d just give up… (h/t Rush Limbaugh Show)

First: Listen to the first fifteen minutes (at least) of yesterday’s Mark Levin show. Second: come back and tell me if you believe Levin is overstating things. I have one nitpick: when Levin talks about the ways progressives “interpret” the Constitution, he doesn’t allow for the fact that they are, from a linguistic perspective, doing more than merely “manipulating” it. They are in fact rewriting it. One cannot simply bracket

Yes, I find it ironic that Mr Rove would fret over cronyism — he seemed pretty upset about TEA Party types crashing his GOP establishment’s ranks, after all — but in this case he’s perfectly on point: In September, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius began granting waivers to companies that provided workers “mini-med” coverage—low-cost plans with low annual limits on what the insurance will pay out. This followed announcements by some

Are there any legitimate Lancet studies? Don’t answer. Rhetorical question. (thanks to TerryH)

The meme, it’s spreading! Here’s a recommendation for Mr Press: when he next references the explicit “right to privacy” he seems to think is clearly demarcated in the Constitution and that Republicans, being hickish busybodies, ignore, perhaps he can follow-up in his public, daytime-TV seminars on Constitutional law, by pointing out how such a privacy right secures, say, same-sex marriage and abortion rights, but not purchasing choices, like for instance

I bet this is somehow racist, too.