. TERM "REPUBLICAN" IS NO LONGER IN USE 150-YEAR-OLD PARTY LABEL CHANGED FOR THE FIRST TIME Webster Editor Says "It's A Sign Of The Times" In recognition of the increasing use of the term "assholes" to describe members of the G.O.P., the world's most popular dictionary has dropped the definition of ...

Yeah, San Francisco elitist Stephen Fowler is a dick. The villainous Brit from last week's Wife Swap made an ass out of himself by demeaning poor plump Missourian Gayla Long. I finally watched the sh... Continue reading "Stephen Fowler is a dick ... but he isn't wrong"...

It doesn’t get much simpler or more clear-cut than this. During his campaign, President Obama promised that he “will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days.” The so-called R...

Yuval Levin writes: ... Sarah Palin embodied a very different notion of politics, in which sound instincts and valuable life experiences are considered sources of knowledge at least the equal of book learning. She is the product of an America in which explicit displays of pride in intellect are cons...

I Twittered about this yesterday, but it's worth posting here, too. "Principles of the American Cargo Cult," about the fallacious "logic" that many Americans treat as gospel, and why it's gotten us into the mess we're in. This looks like it was what Ayn Rand followed to get to her "rugged individual...

I love how Obama has been in office less than two weeks, and everything is already his fault. And if not his, then they're Nancy Pelosi's or Harry Reid's doing. Hate to break it to the troglodytes out there, but the machinations that caused this economic mess were put into play long before Obama was...

Oh, World Economic Forum. You were even more of a grotesque than we'd imagined. We don't know whether to laugh or cry. Especially when we hear stories like these: [Nouriel "Dr. Doom"] Roubini reports on his Facebook page that he " is partying with the other Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Taleb, Ferguso...

(Hat tip: Creative Minority Report ) Writing at National Review, Ramesh Ponnuru ponders the factually devoid scapegoating of social conservatives in which many so-called "conservative" commentators are engaged: In 2002 and 2004, Republicans ran hard on social issues and the courts — and scored vic...

(Hat tip: Regular Guy Paul) Yet another post from Matthew Patrick Archbold - a must-read from this past weekend: ... How could a "conservative" vote for Obama? Simply, he replaced one god with another. Let me explain this rather cryptic statement. In order to explain it, I will use Christopher Buckl...

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