This Stuff Is Not Supposed to Happen in America

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  May 24th at 05:00 AM  | 

“When it becomes fair game to attack and intimidate private citizens and their families to advance a public policy, we cross over from an orderly civil democracy to something decidedly third world.” I would like to be gloating this morning that Charles Djou is the newest congressman from Hawaii. This won’t get a lot of play probably, but it should. Djou won Barack Obama’s home | Read More »

Is it Chicagoland Politics or Creatures From the Third World Lagoon?

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  June 11th at 02:43 PM  | 

One must wonder these days if the Democrats are wrapping themselves around Chicagoland rough and tumble politics, or are they wrapping themselves around the politics of hyper-inflation experiencing third world thugocracies. In Chicagoland politics, like third world thugocracies, opponents of government get gunned down, thrown in jail, threatened by the powers of government, etc. We saw this happen a few months ago when a bank | Read More »