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An important reminder from John Lott: the midterm-election Republican tsunami reached deep into local elections, too. Republicans have picked up Colorado state Senate (possibly the state House), Maine state Senate, Minnesota state House, New Hampshire state House, New Mexico state

Here’s an excellent video from Prager University that makes the absurdity of “progressive taxation” easy to see: I love videos like this because they bring the viewer back to basics with simple, logical arguments, designed to shift the terms of

In response to After Bob Dole Accepts Greg Orman’s Apology For Clown-Car Comment, Orman Denies He Apologized: I guess we’ll see how this all shakes out, but Orman insulting Bob Dole in Kansas, and then issuing a mealy-mouthed self-destructing non-apology

The Washington Post observes that Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is getting very little Beltway-media attention for what was, by any objective standard, a very big win: Here’s the recap: The city of Houston a few weeks back subpoenaed the sermons

The latest polls have Republican Joni Ernst opening a commanding lead over Democrat Bruce Braley in the Iowa Senate contest.  Braley is a clumsy gaffe-machine candidate who shouldn’t be within 10 points of her.  (Considering how many objectively awful candidates

Back in July, I wrote about the controversy over Facebook secretly manipulating the news feeds of some users, in what amounted to a huge psychological experiment.  The idea was to tinker with the priority of good or bad news items

The term “creepypasta” is fairly elastic, covering a lot of Internet short fiction and manufactured urban legends – a notable example being the “Slender Man,” which began as a set of clever Photoshops inserting a tall, disturbing humanoid figure into

In response to In Defense of Catcalls: Catcalling, of course, an entirely manufactured “crisis,” done clumsily enough to where you can still see the “insert tab A into slot B” stickers on the parts.  Judging by Allahpundits lively “Quote of

A video from RebelPundit has some hard words for Democrats and the established “black leadership” from four Chicago activists: RebelPundit notes that all four of these gentlemen have “served time in prison in the past, and have since taken to

In response to Toxic: Democrat In MD Gubernatorial Race Drops 9 Points After Obama Campaign Event: It’s fun watching Obama nurse his wounded ego while Democrat candidates don political hazmat suits and treat him like a virus.  The Washington Post

Here’s a lovely companion piece to the story about how ObamaCare’s servers remain vulnerable to hacker attack: the White House itself appears to have been penetrated by online hooligans.  Reuters reports assurances from the Administration that no sensitive data was

It’s not easy to pretend that a failure as immense as ObamaCare is “working,” much less living up to its promises, but the hard Left and Administration drones keep trying.  The latest road apple dropped by Health and Human Services,

The latest Wall Street Journal / NBC News poll says Republicans have soared to a mind-blowing 11 point lead, with voters saying they want a Republican-led Congress by a margin of 52-41.  The generic lead for the GOP was only

What do you call it when a Palestinian terrorist drives his car into a throng of civilians at a train station in Jerusalem, killing a three-month-old girl with American citizenship?  If you’re the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem, you put out

In response to For Democrats, ‘The Republican War On Women’ Is Now Literally A Punchline (Video): The “War on Women” was also literally a punch line for CNN anchor Carol Costello, who laughed herself sick over audio of Sarah Palin’s

Cards on the table: I’m as big a fan of “Breaking Bad” as you’ll find anywhere, and laughed out loud at the sight of series protagonist Walter White rendered as an action figure – complete with a pistol, a satchel

A fresh delivery of hope arrives from the medical community, as the Chicago Tribune reports a major advance toward understanding how amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s Disease, erodes the ability of victims’ brains to control

When you’re down by double digits in the polls, the last thing you need is to be playing defense following a massive unforced error.  Democrat gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis of Texas spent the day proving that she can stand in

Director David Fincher loves his big third-act reversals, which can make his movies tough to review in detail, since it’s hard to examine their strengths and virtues without spoiling the surprise.  “Gone Girl”  starts dropping its plot bombs about halfway

One of the many stories the U.S. media doesn’t want to examine too closely is the spread of EV-D68, a “non-polio enterovirus” that’s been acting an awful lot like polio lately.  I’ve written about it several times here at The

At the intersection of neurotic dumbassery and opportunism lies the American legal system, where the beverage company that makes Red Bull just decided to settle after being sued for the failure to give people “wings,” as promised in their advertising.

In response to Obama Chides the GOP For Being ‘In The Pocket Of Billionaires’ Before Attending Fundraiser At Billionaire’s House : That’s the state of liberalism in the Obama era: the President gets paid by some billionaires to say mean