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In response to Virginia’s Cuccinelli Cool With Cannabis?: Jerome, speaking as someone who occasionally experiments with marijuana laws, it’s, um, high time. One doesn’t have to own a tie-dyed ferret and a hackysack to realize the waste of the drug

In response to At Least I Have Dreams: Thanks to Ace’s incessant backbiting, it appears we have lost our reader. So now it’s time to THROW DOWN. Tease my mullet and mesh jersey and Talledega infield manners all you want, but

In response to Iowahawk’s Story is Red-Hot, But… It Ultimately Comes from Infowars: Now that I’ve added an update with caveats to my post (thanks Ace), now it’s time to address his passive-aggressive challenge to the natural Alpha pecking order

In response to Iowahawk’s Story is Red-Hot, But… It Ultimately Comes from Infowars: I bow to Ace’s wisdom, and thus encourage readers to take the story with the appropriate asterisks and grains of salt; I did not follow the provenance

In response to Cui Bono?: Liz, I’m beginning to suspect a lot of lefties support gun control because they simply are unable to imagine having a gun in their own hands and not going on a murderous shooting rampage. “Save

Via SooperMexican, a progressive former LAPD patrolman makes the case for gun control (naughty word alert): “Who in there right mind needs a f***ing silencer!!! who needs a freaking SBR AR15? No one. No more Virginia Tech, Columbine HS, Wisconsin

In response to A fine rant from Senator Paul: John – I should have noted that the clip of Rand Paul demolishing the DoE twit was from March 2011, but your point remains. This is precisely the line of attack

Scared of Texas outlaws rustlin’ all of his cash cows? Not Jerry Brown, beloved governor of America’s financial basket case and one-third of it welfare caseload. Nosirree. Mr. Moonbeam laughed off a new Texas ad aimed at luring California businesses

In response to Our Father, who art in the White House: When I think about it, Barack Obama does remind me of my dad as I was growing up: He comes up with confusing arbitrary rules that I’m not suppose

In response to School Disciplinary Actions Over Faux Guns Do More Harm Than Good: After a few months of government-sponsored and media-promoted hysteria over guns, the mass roundup of toddlers and preteens wielding high capacity pointyfingers is hardly surprising.  Lefties

Isn’t it rich? Aren’t we a pair? You on the ground smoldering Me in mid-air. Send in the drones. Isn’t it bliss? Obama approves. The DOJ now recommends No sudden moves. Where are the drones? Send in the drones.  Just

In response to Psychoanalyzing the Left: Ace – like a lot of cherished lefty ideas,  meritocracy (with wise elders bestowing credentials on the deserving) began with good intentions. Ancient China had civil service service exams as far back as the

Earlier today I tweeted that “conservatism needs more fixie bike Portland hipsters who own boutique cupcake food trucks, and fewer Karl Roves.” I wasn’t being ironic (or meta-ironic). Tweak their pretensions all you want, but nobody has a deeper understanding

A lot of people have a Super Bowl Sunday ritual. Mine is to bundle up, fill the Thermos, and meet up with Chicagoland’s coldest hot rod show: the annual Bare Bones C.C. Polar Bear Cruise. This year’s edition wended its

Your Super Sunday schadenfreude breakfast treat: JournoList genius Matt Yglesias has an epiphany while waiting in line for government permits to rent his condo. Maestro, cue sad trombone. Oh the amazing things you discover when you step outside your happy

In response to No Photoshopping? What a bunch of whiny little spoilsports: I am frankly shocked to see Conversation colleagues like John Hayward and Larry O’Connor encouraging the juvenile and insolent manipulation of official government photos against the expressed wishes

In response to White House Warns: Don’t Photoshop Obama Gun Pic: So, in short, you want me to ignore the warnings of people who hunt down and jail makers of crappy YouTube videos. Are you also double-dog daring me to

Heartwarming education news from America’s most exclusive institution of higher learning: 125 Harvard students have been implicated for cheating on a class exam, leading to the expulsion of as many as 60. And, to the astonishment of absolutely nobody, the class was… 

On the lighter side of the news, a decorated US combat veteran faces 35 years in prison for the crime of Aggravated Not Being David Gregory in the First Degree. By the way, did President Obama get all the necessary

Legal question for the editors: I was considering writing something about Sunday’s S**** B***, but according to the ads I’ve seen lately, the broadcast or printing of this term is now forbidden. Apparently it’s a word like “Beetlejuice,” and if

Re: Jump the Gun Much? Who’s jumping the gun, Ace? Until we have confirmation regarding all these stories about Senator Menendez, we should be careful not to believe them. As Fredo Corleone said to his own corrupt Senator at the

Re: The Conservative Temperament, Empiricism, and Refraining from a Rush to Judgment Dammit Ace, I SAID “allegedly.” Also, did you notice “Dr. Melgen” is almost an anagram for “Dr. Mengele”?

In reply to Ace: I’m not sure what Chuck Hagel has against Jews, but I’m gonna go out on a limb here and guess it has something to do with a grade curve. L’Affaire Hagel – and the whiny butthurt

So a United States Senator slated to become Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee strong-arms the U.S. State Department to approve a 20-year, $1 billion federal contract for Dominican port security with a firm owned by a Florida opthamologist

Talk about carrying your coals to Newcastle: in what may be the greatest waste of espionage assets in human history, computer spies from the People’s Republic of China have infiltrated the New York Times. What were these inscrutable visitors from

  Chicago, IL  Houston, TX  Population   2.7 million  2.15 million Median HH income  $38,600  $37,000  % African-American  32.9%  24%  % Hispanic  28.9%  44%  % Asian  5.5%  6%  % non-Hispanic White  31.7%  26%       A reasonably similar matchup -until:

Sub-zero windchill spelled a relatively quiet hump day in America’s gun control capital, with a scant 6 wounded and 0 dead, awaiting this morning’s hospital reports. South Austin led all neighborhoods in scoring with 2 wounded, cementing its lead in

…especially Fords. Among the greatest of all Fords was the ’49 “Shoebox,” the first truly modern postwar car. Dispensing with the bulky pontoon fenders of its predescessors its debut heralded the dawn of the golden age of Detroit auto manufacturing,

Last year I visited a gun shop in Waukegan and applied for an Illinois state firearm owner identification (or, as it’s known around these parts, a FOID card). Not that I’m planning a duck hunt or school massacre; I don’t

Heartwarming education news from the brokest state in the world’s brokest nation: in what promises to be the biggest high school production since the Glee season finale, today Cary-Grove HS in suburban Chicago will conduct a mass murder drill, featuring

Progressive, forward-thinking, economically responsible California raises taxes. Ignorant slack-jawed anti-science Bible-beater hillbilly Texas legislature lowers taxes.

Oompah Loompah loopity doo  I’ve got an econ lesson for you  If you spend ten billion a day In the end somebody must pay.

Say ‘ello to my leetle fren’: axe confiscated in border rawk-out WASHINGTON – Today’s uncovering of secret multi-agency program for shipping illegal Gibson guitars to Mexican drug cartels left red-faced officials of the U.S. Department of Justice scrambling for an

Jim Treacher reports that former child actor (and pride of the Evanston Township HS English Department) John Cusack has discovered the joys of Twitter, with somewhat predictable results. Crueler folks have already analyzed Mr. Cusack’s 140-character musings and theorized the

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