Huh.  So, a while back, I spoke at some length to a Washington Post reporter doing a piece about young conservatives feeling left out in the “Age of Obama,” what with all their peers caught up in Obamania and whatnot. I wasn’t able to be too helpful because—though I noted my many points of disagreement […]

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David Brooks on rescue packages: The Bush and Obama administrations have compensated foolishness and irresponsibility. Remind me again who hired Bill Kristol?

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Radley Balko has been doing absolutely heroic work exposing the professional malfeasance of forensic examiners Steven Hayne and Michael West, whose willingness to dance to the prosecutor’s tune over—in Hayne’s case—some two decades has probably tainted thousands of trials in Mississippi and Louisiana. Thanks in no small part to his reporting, Hayne was finally dropped […]

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Earlier today, Americans for Tax Reform sent around a press release with some anti-“stimulus” talking points, and one bit of innocuous-looking phrasing jumped out at me: In fact, many economists – left, right, and center – believe that this spending package is wasteful and will not grow the economy. Years ago, when I worked at […]

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Recently, some gang of semiliterates styling themselves the Republican Liberty Caucus of Illinois apparently decided it was necessary to wage a little vendetta against pernicious “liberals” like Radley Balko who oppose censorship, which (in whatever bizzaro universe these folks inhabit) all true champions of freedom favor. What ensues is a series of own-goals so spectacular […]

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Ok, no, I actually got teary watching this too. Pass it around. “Fidelity”: Don’t Divorce… from Courage Campaign on Vimeo. Ok, Ok, when I say “got teary” I mean “bawled like John Turturro in Miller’s Crossing.” Seriously, this is some incredibly powerful stuff.  If they’d had this running during the campaign, I think there’s a […]

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Just caught a local group called Hume—I’m assuming the name check is David rather than Britt, but who can be sure?—and have spent the last 24 hours listening to their maddeningly brief album Hume Presents the Phat Daughter String Quartet pretty much nonstop, though it actually sounds very little like the stringless (but excellent) band […]

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What Radley said.

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