Were I to have given the Tsarnaev family over $100k to subsidize their living costs over the decade which led up to their bombing of the Boston Marathon, there’s no question that I would be arrested for aiding terrorism. So why isn’t the state of Massachusetts? The Boston Herald: The Tsarnaev family, including the suspected […]

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I thought that the biggest danger we face as a nation was the threat from those crazy right wingers . . . Family Research Council (FRC) officials released video of federal investigators questioning convicted domestic terrorist Floyd Lee Corkins II, who explained that he attacked the group’s headquarters because the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) […]

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This kind of stupid burns.

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In a world where the security state has no accountability because of its colossal size, and no real means of forcing it to be accountable, what could go wrong? Dana Priest and William M. Arkin at The Washington Post: The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, […]

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Following up yesterday’s poll about the lack of outrage from the American public concerning Obama’s gun control initiative failing: The paradox of American gun control got deeper Wednesday. Or, at least it appeared to. On the surface, the poll released by The Washington Post and Pew Research Center made no sense. Only 47 percent of […]

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John Geraghty at The National Review on Obama’s seeming inability to govern with anything resembling competence: Obamacare’s implementation is a “train wreck,” in the words of retiring Montana Democrat Sen. Max Baucus. The president’s gun control proposals are rejected, because he can’t persuade Red State senators in either party that they would really be of […]

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I thought that “90% of Americans supported stronger background checks.” I just can’t believe that the fine politicians in DC and pundits who help shape policy would lie to me. The key Senate vote that halted gun control legislation last week is drawing a mixed reaction from the American public: 47% express negative feelings about […]

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There are many reasons why the gun control bill that Obama pleaded for is dead in the water. Many Americans saw his tacky rhetorical stunts during our “national conversation” as tasteless, relegating what should have been an intellectual conversation in to a party where only those willing to wear the bloody shirts of dead children […]

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The kind of evolution that repels statists the world over. PJ Media: A moment of levity during a very serious, very scary night. It was the moment I evolved on guns — the moment my support for the 2nd Amendment went from abstract to concrete. Boston-area residents were told to “shelter-in-place.” We’re asking people to […]

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Earth Day: full of shit for 43 years. The 1970s were a lousy decade. Embarrassing movies, dreadful music and downright terrifying clothes reflected the national mood following an unpopular war, endless political scandals and a faltering economy. Popular culture was consumed with decline, especially Hollywood. The Omega Man, Soylent Green, Damnation Alley and countless other […]

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