Intentions vs. Incentives

Anyone who’s done a lot of internet debating (and, sadly, we see enough of that in the comments here at AR) knows the temptation to demonize your opponent as being either an idiot or a villain.  (Sometimes, if you’re felling creative, you can go for both).  I Googled around and found a very good explanation [...]

Criminality at the White House?

TheHill.com: Watchdog wants investigation of White House e-mails I know, I know.  The idea that anyone at the White House would be violating Obama’s pledge to get tough on lobbyists and breaking federal law to boot is just preposterous.  So I’m sure we can all just ignore this story.  That’s what the MSM will no [...]

Ernie Pyle Home in Danger

Bayou Renaissance Man: Lest the nation forget: Ernie Pyle (1900-1945) This one came to me courtesy of Michael Yon.  I had never heard of Ernie Pyle before today, but the excerpts from his World War II wartime correspondence were alternately hilarious and sad. Here’s one example: When our Sahara salvage expedition finally found the wrecked airplanes far [...]

Obama: Candidate vs. President

CBSNews: Obama Mocked Commissions, Then Established Four One of the amusing past times of Obama’s first term is counting up all the ways in which Obama the Presidential Candidate would have hated Obama the President.  Here’s another one to add to the growing list: President Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform is meeting [...]

Kagan’s Abortion Distortion

National Review Online: Kagan’s Abortion Distortion I haven’t had a chance to really weigh in on the Kagan nomination.  It’s not that interesting of a story to me.  I’d like to see the GOP do their due dilligence of vetting her and then confirm her.  Is she going to be a good justice?  Absolutely not. [...]

Daily Kos Polls Faked

TheNextRight.com: The Kos-R2K Affair In case you haven’t heard, the State of the Nation polls at the DailyKos run by a polling firm called Research 2000 have recently been found to be fraudulent by researchers.  There’s no evidence that the DailyKos was in on the fraud.  In fact, they’re suing R2K.  Patrick Ruffini has some [...]

McDonald v. Chicago Roundup

Yesterday the SCOTUS ruled on McDonald v. Chicago. Chicago has a complete and total ban on handguns, and McDonald felt that violated his 2nd Amendment rights. This was essentially the same argument as the one in Heller v. DC. The difference is that DC is run by the federal government, and so the Constitution applies [...]

Cold War 2.0

New York Times: In Ordinary Lives, U.S. Sees the Work of Russian Agents They had lived for more than a decade in American cities and suburbs from Seattle to New York, where they seemed to be ordinary couples working ordinary jobs, chatting to the neighbors about gardening and schools, apologizing for noisy teenagers. But on [...]

Failed Gun Bans Defeated

The Huffington Post: Chicago Gun Ban Axed After Violent Weekend: At Least 29 Shot, 3 Dead In Weekend Shootings It’s the Huffington Post, and so I really can’t tell if the irony is intentional or not, but there sure is a lot of it: On Monday, the Supreme Court upheld a challenge to Chicago’s 28-year-old [...]

The Economic Crisis is Not Over

When Obama took office the world knew that we were facing an economic crisis, but Obama and his team of experts seemed up to the task. In fact, it was Obama’s cool and composed response to the crisis contrasted with McCain’s weird fumbling that cemented his 2008 victory. Team Obama lost no time in presenting [...]

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