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Rand Paul drop a deuce on a toilet-regulating bureaucrat, hilarity ensues (hat tip to Say Uncle and Professor Puppyblender): I like to think some of my Twitter shtick (e.g. “I believe in a woman’s right to choose an incandescent lightbulb”) might

Scared of Texas outlaws rustlin’ all of his cash cows? Not Jerry Brown, beloved governor of America’s financial basket case and one-third of it welfare caseload. Nosirree. Mr. Moonbeam laughed off a new Texas ad aimed at luring California businesses

In response to Our Father, who art in the White House: When I think about it, Barack Obama does remind me of my dad as I was growing up: He comes up with confusing arbitrary rules that I’m not suppose

In response to School Disciplinary Actions Over Faux Guns Do More Harm Than Good: After a few months of government-sponsored and media-promoted hysteria over guns, the mass roundup of toddlers and preteens wielding high capacity pointyfingers is hardly surprising.  Lefties

Isn’t it rich? Aren’t we a pair? You on the ground smoldering Me in mid-air. Send in the drones. Isn’t it bliss? Obama approves. The DOJ now recommends No sudden moves. Where are the drones? Send in the drones.  Just

In response to Psychoanalyzing the Left: Ace – like a lot of cherished lefty ideas,  meritocracy (with wise elders bestowing credentials on the deserving) began with good intentions. Ancient China had civil service service exams as far back as the

Earlier today I tweeted that “conservatism needs more fixie bike Portland hipsters who own boutique cupcake food trucks, and fewer Karl Roves.” I wasn’t being ironic (or meta-ironic). Tweak their pretensions all you want, but nobody has a deeper understanding

A lot of people have a Super Bowl Sunday ritual. Mine is to bundle up, fill the Thermos, and meet up with Chicagoland’s coldest hot rod show: the annual Bare Bones C.C. Polar Bear Cruise. This year’s edition wended its

Your Super Sunday schadenfreude breakfast treat: JournoList genius Matt Yglesias has an epiphany while waiting in line for government permits to rent his condo. Maestro, cue sad trombone. Oh the amazing things you discover when you step outside your happy

In response to No Photoshopping? What a bunch of whiny little spoilsports: I am frankly shocked to see Conversation colleagues like John Hayward and Larry O’Connor encouraging the juvenile and insolent manipulation of official government photos against the expressed wishes

In response to White House Warns: Don’t Photoshop Obama Gun Pic: So, in short, you want me to ignore the warnings of people who hunt down and jail makers of crappy YouTube videos. Are you also double-dog daring me to

Heartwarming education news from America’s most exclusive institution of higher learning: 125 Harvard students have been implicated for cheating on a class exam, leading to the expulsion of as many as 60. And, to the astonishment of absolutely nobody, the class was… 

On the lighter side of the news, a decorated US combat veteran faces 35 years in prison for the crime of Aggravated Not Being David Gregory in the First Degree. By the way, did President Obama get all the necessary

Legal question for the editors: I was considering writing something about Sunday’s S**** B***, but according to the ads I’ve seen lately, the broadcast or printing of this term is now forbidden. Apparently it’s a word like “Beetlejuice,” and if

Re: Jump the Gun Much? Who’s jumping the gun, Ace? Until we have confirmation regarding all these stories about Senator Menendez, we should be careful not to believe them. As Fredo Corleone said to his own corrupt Senator at the

Re: The Conservative Temperament, Empiricism, and Refraining from a Rush to Judgment Dammit Ace, I SAID “allegedly.” Also, did you notice “Dr. Melgen” is almost an anagram for “Dr. Mengele”?

In reply to Ace: I’m not sure what Chuck Hagel has against Jews, but I’m gonna go out on a limb here and guess it has something to do with a grade curve. L’Affaire Hagel – and the whiny butthurt

So a United States Senator slated to become Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee strong-arms the U.S. State Department to approve a 20-year, $1 billion federal contract for Dominican port security with a firm owned by a Florida opthamologist

Talk about carrying your coals to Newcastle: in what may be the greatest waste of espionage assets in human history, computer spies from the People’s Republic of China have infiltrated the New York Times. What were these inscrutable visitors from

  Chicago, IL  Houston, TX  Population   2.7 million  2.15 million Median HH income  $38,600  $37,000  % African-American  32.9%  24%  % Hispanic  28.9%  44%  % Asian  5.5%  6%  % non-Hispanic White  31.7%  26%       A reasonably similar matchup -until:

Sub-zero windchill spelled a relatively quiet hump day in America’s gun control capital, with a scant 6 wounded and 0 dead, awaiting this morning’s hospital reports. South Austin led all neighborhoods in scoring with 2 wounded, cementing its lead in

…especially Fords. Among the greatest of all Fords was the ’49 “Shoebox,” the first truly modern postwar car. Dispensing with the bulky pontoon fenders of its predescessors its debut heralded the dawn of the golden age of Detroit auto manufacturing,

Last year I visited a gun shop in Waukegan and applied for an Illinois state firearm owner identification (or, as it’s known around these parts, a FOID card). Not that I’m planning a duck hunt or school massacre; I don’t

Heartwarming education news from the brokest state in the world’s brokest nation: in what promises to be the biggest high school production since the Glee season finale, today Cary-Grove HS in suburban Chicago will conduct a mass murder drill, featuring