On Twitter… @mattyglesias You tell me. If your name was Matt Smith would anybody read the garbage you write? — Scott McKay (@TheHayride) June 18, 2013 Yglesias was trying to rip Jindal for his piece earlier today about the Republican... (Continue reading)
…I have a lot to say. But I’m not going to say it today. I’m holding my fire on the issue. Rather than respond to his “Republicans won’t get anywhere with black people because black people know Republicans are racist”... (Continue reading)
I’m surprised I got this up before Oscar could, because it’s absolutely right up his alley. This video might be the funniest thing you’ll see this year. So a 32-year old quote by Lee Atwater which reads a hell of... (Continue reading)
Darrell Issa was on the Sunday shows yesterday saying that the orders to persecute conservative activists with tax audits and the denial of 501(c)3 and 501(c)4 status to Tea Party and other conservative groups came from Washington, and that the... (Continue reading)
The point of Tim Cook’s appearance earlier this month, by appearances, was to discuss how Apple is parking money offshore and dodging taxes. Remember that? It was such a spectacle that Rand Paul uncorked this beauty… Well, the true point... (Continue reading)
She’s not big on accountability, and she doesn’t seem to have any problem whatsoever with the IRS persecuting people who disagree politically with the left-wing bureaucrats who populate that agency. And she came to Congress today to let you know... (Continue reading)
It’s not necessary to provide a lot of commentary on this one. It speaks for itself. From the Daily Caller, via Breitbart… “So, you may have a question for me,” Whitehouse said on the Senate floor. “Why do you care? Why do... (Continue reading)
…because it could well be that trying to connect the persecution of conservative activists by IRS agents to the White House is going to be a dead end. This might not ultimately lead to Obama. Not that the White House... (Continue reading)
Here’s what the nauseatingly-liberal Esquire Magazine had to say about yesterday’s news that the Louisiana Supreme Court had struck down the funding mechanism for the Louisiana school voucher program as unconstitutional… Something there is about “Bobby” Jindal, the soon-to-be-discarded hunk of presidential timber... (Continue reading)
Washington At-Large Councilman David Grosso is advancing a measure before the city council calling for the NFL’s Washington Redskins (which do not play in Washington, DC) to change their team name, which he considers racist. And if you’re buying what... (Continue reading)
Make a movie glorifying terrorists, then watch as a couple of kids who think a little like the heroes of your movies blow an eight year-old kid to smithereens, kill two young women and knock the legs off a dozen... (Continue reading)
Yesterday on the State Capitol steps was the “Enough Is Enough” rally, at which a collection of left-wingers straggled up to the microphone to engage in a bitch-fest about Gov. Bobby Jindal’s opposition to the Obamacare-Medicaid expansion. The Soros-funded organizations... (Continue reading)
This is of a piece with our running Bob Mann controversy, the Sandy Hook Facebook graphic and the Jack Ohman cartoons. “Never let a crisis go to waste.” It’s all the Left has – attack the culture, attack the culture,... (Continue reading)
The Sacramento Bee’s disgraceful cartoonist Jack Ohman uncorked this hideous bit of artistic necrophilia this week… Is there nothing the Left won’t attempt to profit by politically? You saw how shamelessly they went after gun control following the Newtown shootings.... (Continue reading)
Check out what they’ve done on Facebook… Dictionary.com defines the word “Ghoul” as… ghoul (ɡuːl) — n 1. a malevolent spirit or ghost 2. a person interested in morbid or disgusting things 3. a person who robs graves 4. (in Muslim legend) an evil demon thought to eat human bodies, either stolen corpses or children The crowd behind this graphic fits all four definitions in some form or fashion, given that gun-grabbers need... (Continue reading)
A picture which ought to be scandalous, but in 2013 it isn’t really all that surprising. It’s from a conference at a university in Brussels. The Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels, Andre-Joseph Leonard, was giving a talk on blasphemy. The topless harpies... (Continue reading)
The taxpayers ought to really enjoy this. From a press release this afternoon from something called the Alliance For Affordable Energy and the Sierra Club comes news of a legal action… Groups File Lawsuit Against the PSC for Violating the... (Continue reading)
In the land renamed Airstrip One in George Orwell’s 1984, British socialists and labor leaders have engaged in a festive Hate Week with much glee and enthusiasm to mark the demise of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher. It’s been difficult... (Continue reading)
Kudos to the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice (yes, I know, but that really is who they are) for one of the most entertaining protests I’ve seen in a while. About a dozen half-dressed welfare recipients in shower... (Continue reading)
Maybe the word has gotten out that John Georges will conduct a purge of its staff once he takes over ownership, and the editorial board are auditioning for gigs at Slate or Think Progress. Or maybe Georges intends to turn... (Continue reading)