Shout out to Sen. Ron Wyden
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul’s 12-hour filibuster of John Brennan’s nomination yesterday was so outstanding because brought people representing the entire spectrum of political belief together to defend...
View ArticleThe many and varied Rand Paul filibuster accomplishments
In no particular order: Exposing, Once Again, the Old Failed Republican Guard and hastening their political demise. Exposing, Once Again, the Old Failed Democratic Guard The Guardian: Democrats...
View ArticleOberlin pretty good at keeping secret the identities and motives of perps
Very strange. Local police are quoted as saying they have identified two students possibly connected to the rash of racist, anti-Semitic and anti-gay writings on campus, but were uncertain as to their...
View ArticlePathetic Pathetic Pathetic!
Is what greeted me when I walked in the door tonight. And for once, she wasn’t talking about me. “What the hell are McCain and Graham doing? I’m disgusted.”
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Officer, he was about 6’2″, brown hair, blue eyes, refused to Coexist, told me to make his day. From commenter Henry Hawkins: Hah! The Perfesser might like this. It’s a different sort of ‘coexist’...
View ArticleMideast Media Sampler 03/08/2013
The state of the Secretaries of State One of John Kerry’s first acts in office as Secretary of State was a good one. Lee Smith writes in John Kerry Roasts Turkey: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip...
View ArticleBranco Cartoon – How Dr. Paul Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Filibuster
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View ArticleAlabama state legislature defeats union, passes school choice
Last week. the Alabama legislature passed a bill approving school choice in a speedy series of votes that, according to one report, left the Senate “in chaos” when the Democrats realized what had...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren’s Banking Committee methodology — ask questions of the wrong...
More headlines for Elizabeth Warren demanding that someone be prosecuted for something. But there’s a catch. She’s making headlines, once again, by asking questions of witnesses who cannot possibly...
View ArticleHamilton College student speaks out against the real diversity problem on campus
When Professor Jacobson graduated from Hamilton College in the early ’80s, it was a school known for its rigorous academics and absence of “political correctness.” Fast forward to the new millennium,...
View Article“We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it” part 3,031,469
February 21, 2013 – Insurer with NY’s ‘worst’ record of complaints gets $340M Obamacare loan (via Instapundit) A health insurance company headed by an old friend from when President Obama was an...
View ArticleLeftist DC coffee shop attacks pro-Israel customer, Al Jazeera jumps on board
Progressive and proud DC coffee shop Busboys and Poets, housed in a modern McDevelopment on the city’s NW side, turns out to be pretty thin-skinned when its customers balk at their politics. Server...
View ArticleDead End Street
Dear Professor, Greetings from Seaside CA and its “Obama Way”. First civic homage I’ve seen to the potus and regrettably I didn’t have any rolaids handy. Aurgh. Best, “Cheerful in Marin”
View ArticleRand-mentum Week at College Insurrection
One man took a stand, and libertarianism broke out: Young Libertarians Defend Rand Paul From Establishment GOP Cal State Student: Give Me Liberty Or Death By Drones Knox College Student — Rand Paul is...
View ArticleIt’s official: McKinley GOP nominee to face gun-banner Robin Kelly
Paul McKinley, who had been the presumed winner in the Illinois special election to replace Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr., has been confirmed as the GOP nominee by the state board of elections. There...
View ArticleCalifornia’s New GOP Chair Donates $1300 to Democratic LA Mayoral Candidate
As a Democrat, I am often grateful to the support shown to me by Republican friends. However, California’s new Republican Party chairman may have taken support for a Democrat one step too far for the...
View ArticleThe statist impulse at the Washington Post
In late February, the Washington Post ran an editorial Solution Politics in Virginia that began: IN VIRGINIA, A REPUBLICAN governor and a GOP-dominated legislature have joined forces with Democrats to...
View ArticleLiberals v Reality, take two
The other day I was moved to reflect that the world liberals believe in—a Utopia where bad guys are just one tax hike on “the rich” away from being good guys—exists only on car bumpers. Anodyne,...
View ArticleSaturday Night Card Game (What you see is not always what you get)
Oberlin College cancelled classes based on a report that an individual was seen wearing a KKK-hood. It turned out that the mystery figure likely was a woman in a blanket. As we wait for further details...
View ArticleThe Great Obama Failed Recovery, in graphs
A series of graphs demonstrate just how disastrous the Obama (failed) Recovery has been for our country, made all the more stark when compared to prior post-war “recoveries.” Jacob Goldstein writes on...
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