Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Yesterday, Rand Paul embarked upon a nearly 12-hour-long standing filibuster. The filibuster’s ostensible purpose and practical effect was to delay a vote on John Brennan’s nomination to head the CIA. It’s real purpose, though, was to force Attorney General Eric Holder to answer a straightforward question: “Does the President have
Continue readingIt’s an iconic moment in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: a young, earnest Jimmy Stewart filibusters for hours, to the point of physical collapse, in order to prevent the Senate from passing an utterly corrupt piece of legislation. Rand Paul took a page from this classic piece of Hollywood Americana
Continue readingWow! Wow! From a lawyer’s point of view, it’s hard to imagine anything more stupid than for the Obama White House to assert executive privilege as to the Fast and Furious documents. The subpoenaed documents must have some pretty damning information for the White House to make this move. More
Continue readingAlthough the MSM has been ignoring it assiduously, people who do not limit their information consumption to the MSM know that Eric Holder, amongst his many sins, presided over Operation Fast and Furious, which shipped untraceable guns into Mexico. These guns were subsequently responsible for the deaths of hundreds of
Continue readingHere’s the video in which Eric Holder ends by saying that we have to “brainwash” young people into new attitudes about guns: I am no Eric Holder fan. I think he’s very busy now trying to destroy both the Justice Department and the abstract notion of justice within the United
Continue reading[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8toYN1cPGgA[/youtube] This post about Eric Holder’s thin skin, arrogance, and sense of entitlement seems like an appropriate companion piece.
Continue readingI grew up in San Francisco in the 1960s and 1970s. I have vivid memories of the brief, highly middle class era right before the hippies came (when houses and people looked liked sets and actors from the Dick Van Dyke Show); of the be-ins in Golden Gate Park; of
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