Ordinarily, “Don’t Feed the Trolls” is impeccable advice. Ordinary standards, however, do not apply to Radley Balko, whose course on Advanced Troll Feeding should be a prerequisite for graduation from Blogger University. (Via Transplanted...
I’m always drawn to these kinds of studies, even though they’re never really insightful. This one mainly backs up what everyone already knows about geography and age demographics among partisans (is it really any...
Charles Taylor is a Canadian philosopher and social theorist. His most book A Secular Age is an examination of modern secularism and the cultural conditions that gave rise to it. There’s a phrase that...
Former Republican congressman, subsequent convert to libertarianism, controversial 2008 Libertarian Party Presidential candidate, and proud Tea Partier, Bob Barr endorses Sen. Russ Feingold, one of the most liberal members of the Senate but also an...
UPDATED:I made a significant mistake in the original version of this post, which has now been corrected as noted below. I do not believe the correction affects the point of the post, though. Over...
When a fairly safe drug becomes illegal, other things often step in to fill the gap. Sometimes, they’re a lot less safe. We all know that alcohol prohibition led to bathtub gin, a substitute...
Writing at National Review, Conrad Black has many disparaging things to say about the War on Drugs and about the prohibition of marijuana specifically. For example: For blacks, the chances of being arrested and...
NPR has an extraordinary scoop on the birth of Arizona’s controversial SB 1070 illegal immigration law: Last year, two men showed up in Benson, Ariz., a small desert town 60 miles from the Mexico...
This video – via Radley Balko’s digs – is a good illustration of the many job-destroying, prosperity-hampering, mind-boggling regulations that various local governments have in place which make it harder for you and me...
Yesterday, guestblogger E.C. Gach asked: So the question I leave to you is, are Americans driven to crappy prime time sitcoms to escape the mess that is our national politics, or is our national...
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on The Mandate That Wasn’tNo one dodges a bullet in real life. It's either bad aim or luck that saves you.
on The Mandate That Wasn’tGolly, I sure wish we had a press that wasn't obviously in the bag for the Democratic Party right ab… on The Mandate That Wasn’tIn the movies? No. But in real life? What would dodging bullets even look like in real life?
on The Mandate That Wasn’tThe interesting thing will be when the Congressional Democrats shut down government again, will it b… on The Mandate That Wasn’tThing is, “Kamala actually did pretty well. Nobody could have done better" appears to be true. Anywh…
on All the President’s Nominees: The Legion of GroomI think you need to re-read that Gabbard piece. She backed off her comments. And your memory of RTFL…
on How Republicans Can Save Trump’s PresidencySo every single Republican in the House’sEthics Committee voted to keep the Gaetz Report secret. Tha… on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024Welp, an ICBM got used in Dnipro. Don't worry, it had a conventional (non-nuclear) warhead.
on The Mandate That Wasn’tA mandate is simply the authority given to democratically elected officials. It has nothing to do wi… on The Mandate That Wasn’tHeh. A fortunate turn of the head doesn't count.
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