Many mainstream Republican commentators have cringed at Mitt Romney’s secretly video-taped comments in which he suggested 47% of Americans are government-dependent “victims” – but a powerful group of conservative agitators have welcomed the remarks. They have fervently embraced Romney’s private attack on those who receive benefits from the state as…
Someone on Twitter sent me this poll today, on the grounds that it was interesting that the choices apparently boil down to “all women are dirty whores” and “perhaps a few dirty whores should be shown mercy if they weren’t at fault this time”. What I thought was interesting was…
Mrs. Instapundit writes about the terrible, awful story of poor Jeff Goldstein, who is a calm, rational person who was called one of the most terrible names imaginable just for stating his opinion! I often feel bad for those on the right such as Jeff Goldstein who try to make…
If you’re conservative, you apparently get to have a conference that the John Birch Society cosponsors, features metaphorical monkey balloons and which sizable portions of the conservative movement tries to write off because said conference endorsed Ron Paul’s Love Balloon for President of the United States of Gold, but which…
To me, the major problem with conservative sexual morality isn’t the draconian overreach into our personal lives that makes all of us into humorless sex-obsessed scolds with insane neuroses about human behavior…oh, no, wait, it is. But the part that annoys me more than that is even when conservatives fail…
Cross-posted at The Clade. Matt, while utterly denouncing and mocking this George Will piece about transportation, doesn’t do enough justice to how truly terrible this piece celebrating pollution and the destruction of our planet one commute at a time.* Also, and I know Auguste will be pleased by this, Will…
A few years ago, there was a dustup between the right and left sides of the blogosphere over each side’s books and intellectual history – the National Review crowd essentially declaring that because of writers like Hayek and Friedman, they had a stronger intellectual base (and therefore more ideological validity)…
You cannot escape motherfucking Wall-E. He is in your dreams. He is your dreams. Well, not really, but I wanted to approach yet another facet of this movie. And no, it’s not the fact that Wall-E is a less verbose Johnny 5. It’s the conservative caterwauling about it. I’d go…