The Weekly Standard on America’s backlash against the TSA: And yet I cannot help but wonder whether the problem is not public resistance to naked scanners, or a libertarian aversion to being frisked, but the cumulative effects of the TSA style of doing business. That uniformed goon at Dulles airport—“You will enter the proper line”—is […]

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One idea that I’ve espoused since the beginning of the newfound limited government movement from the right is that so-called conservatives will come to a crossroads; a point at which they must decide what is more important: small government and individual liberty, or the enforcement of their moral agenda. Fortunately, it seems that some conservatives […]

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How important is education to those receiving it if they are unwilling to pay for it themselves? Accusing him of “going along with Tory plans to shove the cost of higher education onto students and their families,” Ms. Harman told Mr. Clegg that he was like a college freshman who meets “a dodgy bloke” during […]

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A tag team of mixed party lobbyists, most of whom worked at DHS at some point, pushed the new backscatter scanners used by the TSA through to legislation. The Washington Examiner explains: The degradations of passing through full-body scanners that provide naked pictures of you to Transportation Security Administration agents may not mean that the […]

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If this happened to my child, I’d be in jail for having severely beaten the shit out of the screener, and I’m likely to have been beaten, tazed, and/or shot as a result. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TCHSGvNwRY How is it that we’re expected to teach our children to not allow strangers to touch them, yet submit them to […]

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“Someone is going to eat my pussy or I’m going to cut your fucking throat.”

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I thought it was those far right wing tea fucking rat baggers who represented the threat of violence in America. Way to change your tune so quickly from denouncing Tea Party participants as whiny children ready to incite violence on O’Limbeclin’s marching orders, to advocating it yourselves And before a single tea party politician has […]

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The Washington Post on Obama’s disconnect from the average citizen in wake of the Democrats’ vast losses in Congress: As Democrats try to get back on their feet and adjust to the new reality of divided government, they say there are opportunities to be found in the next two years. Anxious, impatient, dissatisfied voters, they […]

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Fucking nanny statists. The New York Times: On Monday, the Bloomberg administration plans to unveil a broad new health initiative aimed at encouraging food manufacturers and restaurant chains across the country to curtail the amount of salt in their products. [. . .] The plan is voluntary for food companies and involves no legislation. It […]

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WaPo on the concern over whether anti-Washington politicians elect might be co-opted by politics in Washington, DC: But as the Republican revolutionaries of 1994 have demonstrated, there’s something about coming to Washington that alters even the purest of intentions. Many of the 73 GOP members of Congress who won office in that huge anti-Washington electoral […]

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