Month: April 2012

A not-friendly reminder to the Activist Left about Gitmo.

In three parts:

  1. The current President of the United States campaigned on a platform that included the closing of the prison for international terrorists at Gitmo.
  2. Gitmo is, in fact, still open.  But they’ll get to it Real Soon Now (SPOILER WARNING: they won’t).
  3. The Right noted at the time that Gitmo was going to remain open. On more than one occasion.  We, in fact, told people time again and again and again and again that Barack Obama was not going to close Gitmo.  Which means that nobody really has an excuse for being surprised.

Continue reading A not-friendly reminder to the Activist Left about Gitmo.

#rsrh Mayor Bloomberg’s (NOT-R) War On Happy Hour.

I apparently would not recognize the City if I went back to it today:

Happy hour in the city could end if Department of Health policy party-poopers go ahead with a proposal to outlaw beer and booze specials at bars and restaurants, sources told The Post.

[snip]

Sources said the happy-hour ban is being pushed by the agency’s marathon-running boss, Commissioner Thomas Farley, and is serious enough for one source to say the alcohol lobby had better find itself a good lawyer.

Continue reading #rsrh Mayor Bloomberg’s (NOT-R) War On Happy Hour.

#rsrh The Tyranny Blog.

Not quite what you think: it’s a blog by Jonah Goldberg in support for his new book The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas, which will be coming out this Tuesday.  I’ll be reviewing this book in more detail tomorrow on RedState (as well as something that I’ll save as a minor not-really-a-surprise for Tuesday), but here’s the gist: it’s good on its merits, and like Jonah’s previous book Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning it will likely integrate a whole lot of data that you already knew into a new way of looking at those most unpragmatic ‘pragmatists’ that make up so much of the modern progressive Left.  Check it out.

So, we’ve got this Madeline animated series on…

…because the kids like it.

This is kind of some messed up stuff, here. French school girls chasing down international jewel thieves with halberds and getting arrested and thrown into British jails because the king’s a total d*ck. Plus, English duchesses telling kids how she ran off with the butler and evil flappers[*].

Weird.

Moe Lane

[*Erm. The duchess didn’t run off with the butler AND evil flappers, sorry. There was a duchess. And then there were evil flappers. Well, one at least.]

Politico: excusing in 2012 their lack of foresight about 2010?

I need to push back on this cover-their-rear statement by Politico on the ‘surprise’ flipping of the House of Representatives in 2010.

[House Speaker John] Boehner doesn’t play political prognosticator often. But when he does, those close to him say, there’s usually a calculated reason. In April 2010 — almost two years ago exactly — the then-House minority leader said in a radio interview that an astounding 100 seats were in play in that year’s midterm elections, a figure he said was broader than “anything we’ve seen around here during my 20 years” in the House.

Few from either party believed Boehner at the time, but his assessment proved accurate. Republicans put about 100 Democratic-held seats in play, ultimately winning 63 of them to seize the majority.

(Bolding mine) Actually, people who read RedState (or MoeLane) were prepared for that scenario. People who read Sean Trende at RCP were prepared for that scenario. People who read Hot Air and AoSHQ were at least prepared for the possibility.  In fact, people who were following the election using right-leaning sites and news sourcess were by and large prepared for what happened. But the people were relying on the Daily Beast or the Left-blogosphere or, well, Politico for their political content? …Yeah, those folks ended up being kind of surprised in November. Usually unpleasantly. Continue reading Politico: excusing in 2012 their lack of foresight about 2010?

#rsrh War On Some Drugs Update: Democratic governor ready to veto GOP medical pot bill.

No, really.

This week the Republican-controlled New Hampshire House of Representatives passed a medical marijuana bill by a lopsided vote of 236 to 96, one day after Gov. John Lynch, a Democrat, threatened to veto the legislation. Last month the state Senate approved the bill, which would let patients with “debilitating medical conditions” or their “designated caregivers” grow and possess up to six ounces at a time, by a vote of 13 to 11, with all five Democrats and eight Republicans in favor.

Vai Instapundit.  Hey, you know who should be expressing an opinion on this?  Barack Obama, that’s who.  Preferably, on a New Hampshire college campus…

Moe Lane Continue reading #rsrh War On Some Drugs Update: Democratic governor ready to veto GOP medical pot bill.

Hey, Dan Savage? This anti-bullying thing? You’re doing it wrong.

Dan Savage has been stewing in his hate for just a bit too long, apparently.

As many as[*] 100 high school students walked out of a national journalism conference after an anti-bullying speaker began cursing, attacked the Bible and reportedly called those who refused to listen to his rant “pansy asses.”

Because nothing says’ anti-bullying’ like calling people an epithet usually associated with a basic lack of masculinity. This is what we call a teachable moment, by the way: you see this guy?  Yeah, this guy has spent too long thinking about things that he hates, obsessing over things that he hates, and reveling in the things that he hates… so now he’s the thing that he hates.

Don’t be this guy. Continue reading Hey, Dan Savage? This anti-bullying thing? You’re doing it wrong.