“Sooner or Later They Will Come After Something You Like or Do”

by T.L. James | 7:16 am, March 18, 2013

One Derek Hunter of RightWing News channels Pastor Niemoeller, with this explanatory observation – Sooner or Later Progressives Will Get Around to You: If there’s one thing progressives love it’s a power grab in the name of “doing good,” and the “good” they most often wrap themselves in is “for the children.” When they eventually [...]

It’s Been a Weird Day in a Good Way: Two Court Rulings Represent Hope for Privacy

by Eileen | 7:06 pm, March 15, 2013

In one day, two major court decisions have put Executive overreach on the defensive and given civil liberty advocates momentum. In California, a federal judge held that National Security Letters, with their built-in gag orders, are unconstitutional. (Decision, here.) Meanwhile, federal courts also reinstated an ACLU lawsuit challenging the CIA’s ‘Glomar’ response of targeted drone [...]

In Which the Washington Bureau Chief Mocks a Terrible Law Article for Fun

by Eileen | 12:46 am, March 1, 2013

Blogging is easy.  Just tool around the ‘net until you see something that reaches new heights in stupidity – won’t take long – and then spleen about it. Today’s new least favorite human is Jana M. McCreary, authoress of  “Mentally Defective” Language in the Gun Control Act in the newest issue of the Connecticut Law [...]

The Lamest Twitter Argument Ever Offered?

by T.L. James | 11:53 pm, February 28, 2013

Last week, one of Colorado’s more prolific Progressive tweeters was caught out misrepresenting the conclusions of a study on gun violence, claiming that the study reported certain things about women gun owners when in fact women were not mentioned separately in the methodology or conclusions. Today, when prodded about it in a manner intentionally mirroring [...]

Let’s Execute All The Pundits.

by Eileen | 8:52 am, February 28, 2013

Pundits are paid to deliver simplistic and repetitious talking points to an already sympathetic audience.  Whether or not they’re wildly intelligent, it’s not in the job description to display that.  A pundit is supposed to hold strong opinions, regardless of her own expertise and without consideration of how realistic her predictions are.  Then, when she’s [...]

Supreme Courts Blesses Warrantless Surveillance of Citizens in a Kafkaesque Farce

by Eileen | 9:40 pm, February 26, 2013

In a 5-4 ruling with Alito writing for the majority, SCOTUS upheld warrantless wiretaps of Americans, provided the government states it has a good faith belief the citizen is speaking to a foreign national involved in terrorism. Plainly, provided they can keep a straight face while claiming they thought your pen pal was an al’Qaeda [...]

John Kerry: Bitterly Clinging to the Right to Be Stupid

by Eileen | 8:23 pm, February 26, 2013

John Kerry has assured the Germans that Americans have the right to be stupid.  Read into that what you will.  It certainly continues a tradition of wannabe statesmen making asses of themselves to Berliners. To wit, Kennedy’s moronic ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ comment.  This was profoundly stupid (as was his right) not because the President [...]

GOP Elite and the Ruling Class

by T.L. James | 8:44 am, February 25, 2013

Angelo Codevilla at Forbes published an excellent analysis last week exploring the real nature of the Republican Party’s internal divisions and the repeated failures those divisions produce – As Country Club Republicans Link Up With The Democratic Ruling Class, Millions Of Voters Are Orphaned In a nutshell, the problem is that the bulk of Republican [...]

Underwear Gnomes are Running the GOP

by Eileen | 9:47 pm, February 24, 2013

Freshly back from one of those political confabs where business cards get passed around like canapes and, ideally, fatigued activists get a boost, I’ve been thinking (still) about the grave problems that face the GOP, right-sympathetic Independents, and all the satellite organizations of the American Rightwing. As such, this may come off as the product [...]

May a Very Nudgy Death Find Cass Sunstein (For His Own Good, I Assure You)

by Eileen | 7:08 pm, February 18, 2013

Cass Sunstein is the sort of man who fills you with loathing and moral revulsion after a single sentence, a power-hungry regulatory motherfucker who mere existence proves we have left Eden.  I have keenly anticipated his last book from the moment he published his first.  He’s like your mother, except there’s no need to pretend [...]

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