In response to Shouldn’t Conservative Women Just Admit They’re Feminists?: That’s an intriguing notion, Ace. I suspect most feminists of the movement’s early era would readily agree with your three-point summary of their ideas. So would a lot of average
In response to Bob Woodward Calls Out Sequester “Madness”: I have a similar feeling about the “madness” of King Barack. I’ve referred to him as “mad” before, but it’s not gibbering lunacy (well, okay, I think I used that phrase
The White House evidently took the temperature of the American public over Obama’s sequestration reign of terror, and decided that mass release of illegal aliens was a bit too much. Furious backpedaling has ensued, and a fall guy has evidently
In response to Drone Strikes Okay, Drug Testing Welfare Recipients, Not So Much: Great point on the dichotomy of the drone strike vs. drug testing welfare recipients, Jerome. I imagine an Obama apologist would say the severity of the terror
Let me see if I’ve got this straight: 1. Sequestration cuts of $85 billion are impossibly painful, the equivalent of asking Uncle Sam to perform an appendectomy on himself with a nail file, but 2. ObamaCare adding $6.2 trillion to
In response to Fear of Missing Out: I seem to recall some psychological studies in the not-too-distant past charting this phenomenon: people tend to set their rules of fair play in line with the general environment they perceive around them.
In response to The U.S. Soon-to-be National Language, Mandarin Chinese: I wonder if the Chinese will be courteous enough to start naming their warships after the deficit-fueled American government programs that funded them. Imagine the missile destroyer Obamaphone, the troop
In response to Guilty of Video Game Sin: And don’t forget, Sonnie, you can use “Bioshock” to teach kids about Objectivism! [ducks under table to avoid fruit thrown by angry Objectivists,] To some extent, I’ve always been a bit reluctant
David “Pants Crease” Brooks chipped in to help his beloved Barack out of the sequestration corner he’s painted himself into, by decrying sequestration as “mindless anti-government fanaticism, which doesn’t separate the good from the bad… it just cuts.” So what
In response to Why Video Games Prove Obamacare Is a Farce: I must admit that it’s somewhat refreshing to hear these “sin taxes” bandied about, for they constitute a vital admission by proponents that “the power to tax is the
In response to Lena Dunham: Let’s Save the Nasty Lookist Attacks for Women Who Aren’t Feminists: Collecting this sort of anecdote is a personal hobby of mine. Lena Dunham’s quote is a sturdy expression of totalitarianism, which most of us
In response to Sequester Mania: Coburn Says Let’s Cut the Zombie Apocalypse Training, Sno-Cone Machines and Underwater Robots: Sorry, Liz, no can do. The zombie apocalypse training, Martian pizza research, and studies of the mating habits of transgendered crack-addicted robot
In response to The Full Fusion of Media Power and Government Power? What Could Go Wrong?: I’ve always thought the big problem with media bias isn’t when they go hard on Republicans – I prefer vigorous investigation of the political
In response to Post-Oscar: Michelle O, Chris Christie Break Bread at the Gov. Ball: I’m not sure what to make of Chris Christie. Sometimes I think he’s just banking his New Jersey political capital to remain secure as governor, build
Last year, a Princeton professor took to the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal to mock House Speaker John Boehner for daring to use the phrase “job-killing government spending.” The thesis of this editorial was that government spending might
In response to MacFarlane Didn’t So Much as Tweak His Shtick for Oscar Night, Did He?: I think I lean more toward Ace’s take on MacFarlane. He can punch out a funny joke here and there, and he has a
In response to I Agree 100% – Time To Invoke Reagan’s 11th Commandment: Your critique of Rush sounds more like what Al Cardenas has in mind, Debra, and not far from where Rush himself eventually came down on the issue.
In response to FWS affects millions of Americans and others around the globe: Hey, we’ve got Michelle Obama’s mom-dancing to keep us entertained until next football season, while her husband captivates America with his golfing adventures. Joe Biden has shotgun
In response to Jonah Goldberg: Conservatives Don’t Need a Movie Studio: That’s a point well-made about the hopes of conservatives to influence culture, John. You don’t do it by creating a conservative movie studio and putting out the right-wing equivalent
George Will becomes the latest level-headed observer to sneer in utter disgust at Obama’s sequestration hysteria: The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government’s size is at any moment, it is the bare minimum necessary
Al Cardenas of the American Conservative Union says it’s time to knock off the infighting: “It has become fashionable among some conservatives to devote a preponderance of their time to finding things about other conservatives they don’t like. I do
In response to Even So…: Point well taken, and I know exactly what you mean. Neither of us wants to be that guy, handing out lists of politically approved or forbidden entertainments. Neither of us wants to be like the
In response to I Don’t Think People Can Be Reduced That Much to Political Stereotypes: I don’t think “pining for a bygone era” is quite the right way to put it, Ace. I think it’s more like the recognition that
I overheard Rush blurting out some big “Downton Abbey” spoilers on the air today. I’m not sure if the Spoiler Statute of Limitations has expired yet, as it hasn’t been a full week since the finale for American viewers. I
In response to America Wants Deficit Reduction Through Spending Cuts, Not Taxes: Not only is the ratio of spending cuts to tax increases an unacceptable 1:1 at best in the Democrat proposals, but we all know most of the spending
