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The long inexorable descent of the Southern Poverty Law Center continues with the revelation that the shooter at the Family Research Council used the SPLC Hate Group list to target the FRC. I have commented on the absurdity the SPLC has become many times before: Saturday Night...

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Professor Jacobson just analyzed how the left effectively uses web-pages to deride conservatives and their policies, and observes it is worthwhile looking at the integration of culture and politics. Anne Sorock offered a hands-on approach to change the direction of local media. And I stress the importance...

The Tea Party movement has been pronounced dead more times than one can count. Vilifying and demonizing that great unwashed semi-libertarian freedom movement has been an almost full-time focus of the mainstream media and left blogosphere; in a sign of national unity, Republicans have held the...

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More than in years past, it seems right to revisit our past great leaders like Ronald Reagan, and, last week, Andrew Breitbart, on what would have been their birthdays. Today would have been Ronald Reagan's birthday; he was born February 6, 1911, in Tampico, Illinois. I was...

The Board of the Office of Congressional Ethics  just released findings (with extensive evidentiary supporting documents) that there is "substantial reason to believe" Rep. Bill Owens (D-NY21) violated federal law and House Rules in connection with a trip to Taiwan (emphasis added): NATURE OF THE ALLEGED VIOLATIONS: Representative Bill...

Via Israel Matzav, Chuck Hagel refuses to disclose payments he has received in the last five years from foreigners, Is Chuck roast? Hagel refuses to disclose foreign funding sources: Will this finally be enough to break the Obama administration's hold over Senate Democrats when it comes...

UPDATED! On my own blog, Temple of Mut, I post news about discoveries related to ancient Egypt. I also keep up with the news about modern Egypt, and today the country is being overrun with boobs.  The first example is Egypt's Prime Minister Hisham Qandil, who...

I consider BuzzFeed Politics to be one of the most influential websites at setting the narrative in the blogosphere, and to some extent the more mainstream media. That influence only is going to grow due to the well-funded Buzzfeed brand, which just raised $19 million in...

Agenda-driven journalism is poised to pit two Democratic constituencies against each other in my home state of California. Americans are becoming aware that there is an "oil boom" in this country, courtesy of the technology behind the fracking of oil shale.  California's Monterey Shale Formation, which...

I recently covered an example of what passes as sensible budgeting in California: The High Speed Rail system. You would be hard pressed to find a more epic example of a hideous blend of cost overruns, cronyism, and incompetence. So when Governor Jerry Brown touts fantasies of...

Which means that minute 16 is the sweetest minute of all. With regard to the DOJ Kill List Memo, Pepperdine Law Prof. Greg McNeal focuses on Six Key Points Regarding the DOJ Targeted Killing White Paper, of which one is of particular interest, the issue of...

What little free time I have unexpectedly is being taken up with technical issues related to the blogs. More on that in a few days. So I'm just going to leave things open for the morning for you to run the blog for me. Update 4:20 p.m. --...

Think the unthinkable.  Left-wing bloggers are: "[Webb] would also be the perfect candidate for vice president in 2016 with Elizabeth  Warren, which would allow the Dems to build again, not from ’60s nostalgia, but  from original new strengths. And so are mainstream liberal publications. It's one of the...