I’ve held out nearly forever from adding a registration requirement to the commenting here, mostly for two reasons: 1) I didn’t want to inconvenience those of you who’ve been here with me for so long; and 2) I didn’t want to dissuade new commentators who wished to post a drive-by comment. After nearly 9 years, though, I think it time to make a change. Over the last several months, I’ve

Season: 82/131. Last week: 12/13. Which means I’m due for a good drubbing. Detroit over Buffalo (Yes, Buffalo has to win at least one; and they are home against a Lions team without their starting QB. This could be the day for Buffalo — at home — but I’m not counting on it. I tried that rationale before, and Jacksonville threw up close to 40 on them) – X Minnesota

In the latest installment of the Patterico rehabilition tour, Frey tries taking a shot at me for being a “purist” and a demagogue — and hamfistedly attempts to use Glenn Reynolds as his intellectual body armor (after having previously tried on Michele Malkin for size). Honestly, watching him flail about like this would be funny were it not so stunningly pathetic. Responding to instances of Chris Christie criticism from some

Read this. Then point out each of the 277 errors I was able to note in the first five paragraphs alone. And yes, this will count toward your final grade.

From the Heritage Foundation, published in June of this year. I’ll let you review the myths yourselves — nothing noted will surprise most of you, I don’t think — but I do want to note this particular bit, as it reinforces an earlier post of mine today: Having established that spending is causing the expanding long-term budget deficits, the next question is how to fix that problem. Lawmakers seeking deficit

Answer: Oh. Like you don’t already know… (h/t TerryH)

our little Harsanyi isn’t. And can you blame him? Substantive reform is going to take real political bravery, coupled with being able to convince voters that until they rid us the government of enough statists who promise unsustainable “benefits”, much of what needs to happen — for instance, an insistence on a total restructuring of the tax system and an end to the progressive income tax; the attenuation of fourth-estate

Writing in Reason, Jon Basil Utley lays out “eight areas where the environmental extremists hope to wreak havoc on the American economy.” Behold just how tightly the bureaucratic fourth estate controls and constrains business and industry, creating precisely the kind of centralized control economy we sometimes pretend we’re forestalling once we elect a few fiscal conservatives to the House or to state assemblies. The next phase in the war for

Greece and its social travails too foreign to you? Too Mediterranean? Well, then try this. And then ask yourself, isn’t it best to skip the middle “sofa” stages of such a social trajectory and just start the reform now — before “students” begin taking to the street to protest the end of “benefits” that are really no more than “free shit the government provides in exchange for voting left”…? (h/t

After supposedly conceding that Obama would concede tax cuts: Senior White House adviser David Axelrod said this morning that President Obama has not caved to GOP demands on the extension of the Bush tax cuts, despite a report to the contrary. “We’re willing to discuss how we move forward,” Axelrod said in an e-mail to National Journal rebutting the Huffington Post story, “but we believe that it’s imperative to extend