Well obviously someone should be , and Ben Shapiro thinks it’s Williams. NBC’s handling of the Trayvon Martin story was horrifying, and could have led to riots. And neither did the other MSM outlets, nor, alas, our president, try to get the necessary “let’s wait for . . . . Continue Reading »
even if he didn’t quite mean it: In the escalating battle between the administration and the judiciary, a federal appeals court apparently is calling the president’s bluff — ordering the Justice Department to answer by Thursday whether the Obama Administration believes that the . . . . Continue Reading »
Emily Esfahani Smith, a gal with a middle name to remember, has a nice review of the high points of Allan Bloom’s take-down of rock/pop music in his Closing of the American Mind , which has a 25th anniversary this year. Worth pondering if you haven’t read Bloom’s masterpiece, or . . . . Continue Reading »
1. So of course the headline of my previous post was unfair. Every single Republican from Hatch to Romney, though, has interpreted the president’s comments the same way. Call it the rhetorical exploitation of his rhetorical etch-a-sketchy moment. 2. I don’t have time to be linking but: . . . . Continue Reading »
The key Obama quote: “I’d just remind conservative commentators that for years what we’ve heard is, the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint — that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed . . . . Continue Reading »
Our good friend CJ Wolfe in the thread notes that we postmodern conservatives were prophetic when we pronounced that it won’t be long before liberals become born-again defenders of judicial restraint. But as Pete noticed, the president actually went further, suggesting that judicial review of . . . . Continue Reading »
MAD MEN is turning into a hyper-conservative display of the joys of highly erotic and totally fulfilling marital life. The headlines refer to a rather stupid and, of course, failed attempt to contact the Rolling Stones’ manager at a concert during the height of their teeny popularity to do a . . . . Continue Reading »
by the (scary) NEW NOBLEWOMAN . . . . . Continue Reading »
They showed up by email and are obviously some gentle criticism of ME: Re the ObamaCare case: 1. Spot on - Kennedy seems to be stringing together for himself an increasingly consistent “presumption of liberty” jurisprudence. Frankly, in a lot of ways, I would consider that a relief. . . . . Continue Reading »
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