By now, everyone has had an opportunity to be duly horrified by Melissa Harris-Perry’s MSNBC video, in which she called for a “collective notion” of children, which can only be achieved if we “break through our kind of private idea
In response to Punitive Taxes: Backdoor Gun Control: Should we at least offer a golf clap for liberals admitting that the power to tax is the power to destroy? They’re usually so stubborn about ignoring that fact. They think taxes
Barack Obama’s favorite power couple is traipsing around Cuba on vacation, raising howls of outrage from human-rights activists and the Cuban-American community. No one should be terribly surprised by this – “no enemies on the Left” and all that. Leftist
In response to Proof We Can Reach Anyone: I would like to be counted among those who respected Roger Ebert’s achievements, Lisa – and, of course, mourn his passing on a human level, with heartfelt condolences to his family and
I went to see “The Croods” the other day. It’s a computer-animated comedy about a caveman family, filled with a great deal of amusing slapstick in the Looney Toons tradition. It’s fun, if a bit frenetic for the adult attention
In response to Jake Tapper: Gun Control Advocates Should Have Basic Familiarity with That Which They Seek to Ban: I was musing on this very topic right before Obama came out with his “fully automatic” comment. (I recall some initial
In response to The chromedome principle: As a long-standing member of the hair-sequestered community myself, I take great inspiration from the example of Patrick Stewart, who has been bald forever, and does not appear to have aged a day since
The March unemployment report is out, and it’s a staggering disaster. Job creation toddled in at a mere 88,000, while an astonishing 496,000 people fled the workforce entirely… perversely causing the silly U-3 unemployment metric to tick down to 7.6
In response to Consent of the Governed?: Ah, you’ve brought forth one of my favorite hobby horses, among the most unique treasures of the Revolution, and one of the towering achievements of moral imagination: the consent of the governed. The
In response to Bill Kristol Wrong to Dismiss Young Adults: That’s an interesting contrast between Kristol’s dismissal of dewy-eyed 26-year-old children, and the general cultural tendency to flatter them as fountains of wisdom, while defining them as children in practical
The Google search website uses “doodles” to re-decorate the company logo in honor of holidays and other major events. I see they’ve chosen to commemorate Easter Sunday by celebrating the birth of labor leader Cesar Chavez. There isn’t even a
In response to Cults and Factions, American Style: Further to the discussion Ace and Jerome were having about factionalism, here’s the latest fundraising missive from Obama operative Jim Messina, chair of the immortal campaign fundraising octopus currently known as “Organizing
In response to Three Cheers for the Nanny State!: Apologies if you thought this was too “old hat” to be worth quoting, Lisa, but I’m reminded of the timeless quotes from Lewis and Chesterton that usually pop up when Nanny
In response to The Best Part of Lethal Weapon 2: A lot of those computer-generated kiddie films you mentioned have taken to having a bit of fun during the end credits, which serve as a sort of epilogue to the
Erick Erickson at RedState had a post this morning making the case that same-sex marriage is incompatible with religious freedom: Within a year or two we will see Christian schools attacked for refusing to admit students whose parents are gay.
In response to 1990’s Environmental Nut Job Captain Planet To be At WH Easter Egg Roll: Jim Carrey farting out cobwebbed japes at the expense of Charlton Heston? Captain Planet returns? When did these relics escape from the 1990s, and
In response to One Night in Paris*: This sort of thing happens all the time – we see an expense total that looks outrageous enough on the surface, but then you start digging into the numbers and it seems impossible
Even as Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) complains that the ravages of austerity threaten to starve her retinue of six-figure aides because they can’t afford good meals at tony Washington cafes any more, we learn that the IRS blew $60,000 making
In response to Thanks A Lot, You Guys : You’re probably right about their future in academia. I’m always struck by how thoroughly the verbal static of academic-speak dissolves rational thought in a cloud of buzzwords. Ideas have no intrinsic
In response to Term Limits: My 6-2-2 Plan: I’m also a fan of term limits – I’d happily sign on to your 6-2-2 Plan. (Actually, I guess it’s actually “6-2-2-2,” because you wisely included a 2-year ban on lobbying after
In response to Guns: Biden Talks About ‘Black Helicopter Crowd’: Urgent warning for the pilots of all black helicopters: do NOT fly over Joe Biden’s house, as he has instructed his wife to fire shotgun blasts in the air when
In response to Violence a Small Problem in Chicago?: This aspect of the gun-control debate fascinates me, Sonnie. It’s a powerful example of how the media shapes public perception with both what it says, and what it does not say;
In response to I Love Amazon Prime, and Stiffing the Government for Sales Tax: Stiffing the government out of sales tax is nice, although it should be kept in mind that Amazon is on the front lines of getting Internet
A fascinating TIME Business look at the runaway success of Amazon Prime contains a fascinating insight about the perception of value and how it affects behavior… Amazon Prime is the higher-level subscription membership available to Amazon.com customers. It’s sort of
Actor Nick Searcy, who plays Timothy Olyphant’s boss on “Justified,” is a conservative who maintains a highly entertaining Twitter feed. He made a very good point about this week’s episode of “The Walking Dead:” I don’t understand this last episode
