The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
— Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), German-born American political philosopher

From the Poor Man Institute:
Q: Is Markos Marsupialopolis gay, as Instapundit graciously refrained from implying?
A: No. This is a common misconception, fostered by Hollywood’s deliberate policy of putting out that gay cowboy movie around about the same time they were putting out all those damn Hobbit movies. Let’s clear this up once and for all: […]

Bolshevism is knocking at our gates, we can’t afford to let it in …. We must keep America whole and safe and unspoiled. We must keep the worker away from red literature and red ruses; we must see that his mind remains healthy.
— Al Capone (1899-1947), American gangster, contribution to “Liberty” magazine

Stiff security: Professional prick Rush Limbaugh was detained yesterday for more than three hours after Customs and Border Protection agency staff discovered a vial of the prescription drug Viagra in his carry-on luggage as he was passing through Palm Beach International Airport, according to a report in the Miami Herald. Limbaugh admitted in 2003 that […]

Conservatives’ internalized homophobia is like bulimia of the spirit. Its victims starve their psyches by regurgitating their self-loathing.
A new study has identified a small but significant biological factor that influences the sexual identity of males. The study proves that “having one or more older brothers boosts the likelihood of a boy growing up to […]

A yearlong study by the nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice found that the vast majority of electronic vote-counting systems deployed across the United States can be manipulated by hackers:
Most of the electronic voting machines widely adopted since the disputed 2000 presidential election “pose a real danger to the integrity of national, state and local elections,” […]

Spreading cynicism: On Friday, The Washington Post’s columnist Richard Morin wrote, “This is not funny: Jon Stewart and his hit Comedy Central cable show may be poisoning democracy.” Wow, that’s heavy, and it’s one of Editor-In-Chief Jon’s favorite shows — when he can stay up late enough to watch it.
Appears Morin was bloviating about […]

Name game: As if the Department of Defense didn’t have better things to do — like, say, creating an exit strategy for Iraq — they’ve had a couple of staffers looking at the language gubmint officials use to describe events and characters revolving around the war on terror, or “terr,” as POTUS pronounces it. They’ve […]

What I find most repulsive in America is not the extreme freedom reigning there, but the shortage of guarantees against tyranny.
— Alexis de Tocqueville, (1805-1859), French statesman