Author: Mark of New Jersey

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...

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...

Scott writes: If the past two-plus years have taught us anything, it is that placing unfettered trust in the inherent wisdom of the free market is, at best, a shaky wager that courts potentially...

Responding to Barrett’s attack on all things related to NRO’s The Corner, and particularly the portion dealing with K-Lo, the mysterious FLG (ordinarily the League’s bête noire) writes: FLG maintains that nobody likes clowns....

Whatever one may say about Bill Clinton’s political leanings, let there be no doubt about this: 10 years after leaving office, he’s still the most skilled politician in the land.  That may or may...

Describing an incident in which the local utility company chose to – without notice – rip out some of his trees in order to replace his water meter as “Why People Hate Government,” John...

So here we are, just a few weeks out from a federal election, albeit a non-Presidential election, where at least one, and possibly both, Houses of Congress is likely to change hands.  There’s certainly...

It’s stories like this (via Balko)- in which a Dem-affiliated PAC attacks Rand Paul for being “soft on crime” – that make me roll my eyes whenever someone tries to tell me that the...

Military occupation is the leading cause of suicide terrorist attacks over the last 30 years.  So says a study partially funded by that hippie collective, the Defense Department’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency: “We have lots...

After running through a litany of Woodrow Wilson’s misdeeds as President, Radley Balko asks: But I think a more interesting question than Why does the right hate Wilson? is, given all of this, along...

Erik has already said much of what I would like to say about the 10th anniversary of Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish.  But I’d like to add a few words of my own, nonetheless. I...

I’ve gone back and forth on Gov. Christie’s decision to kill the ARC about 10 times in the last 24 hours, and probably will do so another 10 times in the next 24 hours, but with...

Those who insist (inaccurately) that so-called “pay-for-spray” and an “on your own” theory of governance were epitomized by firefighters in rural Obion Couty, Tennessee refusing to put out a fire – and indeed watching it...

So I’ve decided Think Progress (Yglesias excepted) is rapidly becoming indistinguishable from a Left-Wing version of the Malkin-Coulter axis, a propaganda outlet that exists more to make its base accept a caricature of its...

Rush Limbaugh calls the President a “jackass,” an “economic illiterate,” and an “idiot, where capitalism is concerned.”  This, somehow, equates to “taking his contempt for the President to a new level,” and “opinion media rhetoric...

Starting a week from today (9/24), I’ll be hitting the road with a friend for a baseball and bourbon trip. With that in mind, I was wondering if the peanut gallery might have any...

One common misunderstanding of Miranda — which Scott’s comment displays despite this having been repeatedly pointed out to him in the past — is that it found a constitutional right to be read your...