Stryper rawks. Si Paloma – Sun Kil Moon This House Is Not For Sale – Ryan Adams The Chamber of 32 Doors – Genesis Pavlov’s Bell – Aimee Mann Jackie, Dressed In Cobras – The New Pornographers All The Way From Memphis – Mott The Hoople Hide It Away – Retribution Gospel Choir We’re Not [...]

The Fonzie of Freedom interviews two soulless white-bread future Kochwhores: A little background on Alexander McCobin: Alexander McCobin recognized the formal principles of his beliefs after reading Atlas Shrugged, a birthday present from his father in 9th grade. Throughout high school, Alexander participated in Lincoln-Douglas debate, which allowed him to study philosophy and particularly those [...]

…and you thought I forgot.

Current Ross Douthat: You do not have to like the long-term budget that Paul Ryan and the House Republicans have released this morning. There’s plenty in the plan for liberals to hate, moderates to doubt, and conservatives to question. But you do have to respect it. As my colleague David Brooks writes today, it is [...]

Do not want. Will not go there. Refuse to click. Kathryn Jean Lopez is the most unaware person who has ever lived. Ever. (Courtesy of reader Max – Destroyer of Libidos)

Today, April 5th 2011, is the 17th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s suicide: On March the 4th Cobain was rushed to hospital in a coma after an unsuccessful suicide bid in which he washed down about fifty prescription painkillers with champagne. The suicide bid was officially called an accident and was not even made known to [...]

…and that soft spot is a cushy job working for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Scott Walker Chief of Staff  Keith Gilkes is trying to single-handedly erase unemployment in Wisconsin by doling out sweet government jobs to friends of Scott Walker as well as friends with benefits who are friends of friends of Scott Walker. Read [...]

Dog whistle much, David Freddoso? From the book description: In Gangster Government you’ll learn, among other shocking revelations: How the Obama administration has used “czars” and “recess appointments” to install powerful bureaucrats, some with extreme views and shady pasts, without congressional oversight I like the scare quotes around “recess appointments” because it must be some [...]

I was expecting  the New York Times paywall would serve as a prophylactic between myself and Ross Douthat but, no, I guess, like the old New York Sun, Ross is a loss leader who must be given away gratis. So…. sigh….Shorter Ross Douthat: Just reviewing the current crop of 2012 Republican Presidential candidates and I [...]

Over Wisconsin way, Citizens for a Strong America is running an ad (above) against conservative Wisconsin State Supreme Court Justice David Prosser because he decided to not prosecute a pedophile priest named John Patrick Feeney, instead allowing the church to shuffle him off to Buffalo or somewhere else where he could pray and prey at [...]