By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 29th at 03:00 PM  | 

It’s the funniest thing. You know Western civilization? That patriarchal, logocentric, heteronormative collection of imperial hubris, Gaeacidal ideology, facist-capitalist-authoritarian economics, and war-worshipping mindset that continually oppresses the organizationally challenged and seeks to dismiss the concerns of the differently-paradigmed? Yeah, those folks. You know what their phallocentric engineer-destroyers have been doing while more enlightened people have been conducting on-street seminars on the inherent privilege found in | Read More »

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 25th at 04:00 PM  | 

First, let’s refresh people’s memory of what happened. For those without video: basically, what happened was that after Joe Biden Opened His Mouth and announced that voting against the President’s job bill would result in more rapes in Flint, Michigan, Jason Mattera of Human Events confronted the Vice President on Biden’s statement. If you watch the video, you’ll see that Mattera ‘ambushed’ VP Biden by | Read More »

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 25th at 11:18 AM  | 

Plan here. [UPDATE]: Speech done; copy can be found here.  Lots of good stuff in it: to quote @DrewMTips… Shorter Rick Perry: “What’s my plan? Just about every popular conservative idea that’s been floating around for 30 years”. Pretty much, pretty much.  I like ending baseline spending, myself.  A lot. Moe Lane (crosspost)

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 25th at 10:30 AM  | 

So… the Maryland redistricting map was revealed and signed into law recently, and – shock! Surprise! – the Democratic-controlled legislature managed to hack into one of the two Republican seats. The short version: they went into Roscoe Bartlett’s MD-06, switched out a bunch of districts to make it more competitive, and then put central Maryland into the redistricting blender and hit ‘puree.’ Because, well, central | Read More »

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 24th at 12:00 PM  | 

It’s funny: by the standards of a lot of people in the GOP I’m pretty firmly in the ‘pro-amnesty squish’ wing. [INSERT INTEMPERATE RESPONSE TO INSULTING AND PROVOCATIVE STATEMENT THAT WILL NOT FOSTER PARTY UNITY, BUT WILL MAKE THE RESPONDER PERSONALLY FEEL BETTER ABOUT BEING CALLED A RUDE NAME HERE] So it’s always a little interesting to talk about the immigration debate in the primaries. | Read More »

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 24th at 09:30 AM  | 

The background: Politico did an article on how Democrats across the land who have tough battles ahead in 2012 are kind of… avoiding… the President these days. The quote below comes right after the article in question noted that most sitting North Carolina Democrats were distinctly unwilling to get within camera range of Barack Obama: “[Obama] may end up being Walter Mondale of 1984,” said | Read More »

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 23rd at 01:00 PM  | 

Let’s see who got arrested and/or committed a variety of illegal activities, shall we? Boston. Cyber-terrorism! Vandalizing! (Via AofSHQ) Charlotte. Public nuisance! (Blocking traffic, specifically.) Chicago. Trespassing! (Via @amandacarpenter) Cincinnati. Trespassing! (Yes, that one was boring. Work with me for a minute.) Gainesville. Bo Diddley’s son arrested at Bo Diddley plaza for tresspassing! (…OK, yeah, that’s a little ironic. And old. Hush with your insidious | Read More »

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 23rd at 09:30 AM  | 

Which begs the question: what else did former Alabama Congressman Artur Davis* (D) get wrong? I’ve changed my mind on voter ID laws — I think Alabama did the right thing in passing one — and I wish I had gotten it right when I was in political office. [snip] Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the too-mentally-impaired to function, cancels | Read More »

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 22nd at 11:08 PM  | 

Sorry: given the way that the Louisiana Democratic party is more or less at the Cheyne-Stokes breathing stage at this point it didn’t really seem that high a priority.  Results here.  Bobby Jindal won, of course (and it wasn’t even close); but it looks like that the Lt. Governor and Secretary of State races are going to be closer.  Honestly, I don’t know enough about | Read More »

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 22nd at 10:15 AM  | 

(Via Instapundit) It does not in fact surprise me that a person’s enthusiasm for Communism is usually [directly] proportional to how long it’s been since he or she had to live under it*: [Estonian finance minister] Parts is vigorous, blonde, and athletic, but seems tired. He tries to conceal a yawn, explaining that he and his wife have just had their fourth child and nights | Read More »

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 21st at 07:09 PM  | 

I am in shock. I am in veritable shock. Somebody put together a parody of Simon & Garfunkel’s “Cecelia…” …that actually scans. Meanwhile, in other news: it’s just come out that Solyndra made a last minute lobbying effort to influence Congress’s investigation of the company.  Didn’t work, of course – the Republican-led House is in no mood for shenanigans, particularly when they’re shenanigans that started | Read More »

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 21st at 12:30 PM  | 

I swear to God, it’s like the paper remembers that one, perfect high that it got from torpedoing then-Senator George Allen’s re-election run in 2006, and has been chasing the dragon ever since: 2009: You all remember the McDonnell/Deeds gubernatorial contest, yes? You also remember how the WaPo went so all-in on pushing an absurd story that Jim Geraghty started calling it the Washington Bob | Read More »

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 21st at 09:30 AM  | 

Focusing particularly on the voters within audible (and olfactory) range of Zuccotti Park, which is currently the somewhat squalid epicenter for the protesters: I am given to understand that increasing numbers of them are tired of the noise, the disruption of local business and residential life, and, of course, the defecation*.  I am also given to understand that those voters are not really getting any | Read More »

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 20th at 03:30 PM  | 

Yeah… I think that somehow DCCC chair Steve Israel didn’t think this one all the way through when he came out in support for the Occupy Wall Street ‘movement.’ Steve Israel Stands With Them. Note that I am utterly unsympathetic to the argument that the OWS movement is merely not being utterly hostile to any random anti-Semites stopping by.  Personally, I take the position that | Read More »

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 20th at 09:45 AM  | 

I can tell you at least one key difference between this latest ad by Governor Rick Perry and the latest one from former Governor Mitt Romney… …Team Perry will probably not have to fall all over itself later today to pull the ad from the Internet.  Which was something that Team Romney had to do yesterday with their ad. For those without video, the Perry | Read More »

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 19th at 11:00 AM  | 

There’s a lot to talk about with regard to last night’s debate, but I want to drill down on this unforced error made by Team Romney. It’s… subtle, but it’s going to hurt Mitt in unexpected ways. Via the CNN debate transcript (via Ben Domenech’s Transom) comes this fascinating discussion of alternative methods of funding humanitarian aid: COOPER: Governor Romney, should foreign aid be eliminated? | Read More »

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 18th at 01:20 PM  | 

The woman below (THE WOMAN BELOW) would like to have (WOULD LIKE TO HAVE) a conversation. (A CONVERSATION.) So let me explain (SO LET ME EXPLAIN) why we won’t. (WHY WE WON’T.)

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 18th at 11:30 AM  | 

OK, this needs a little background: it recently came out that Indiana Democrats had forged multiple signatures on the 2008 primary nominating petitions for both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. The situation was sufficiently bad that former Democratic governor (and Clinton supporter) Joe Kernan had to come out and announce that no, that wasn’t his signature on the Obama petition; in other words, it’s bad | Read More »

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 18th at 09:14 AM  | 

In order: Did events of the last three years prove, once and for all, that Keynesian economics simply do not work? Did events of the last three years instead prove, once and for all, that it is futile to expect politicians to enact a truly Keynesian economic policy? Is there any kind of practical difference between 1. and 2.? Discuss. Moe Lane (crosspost) PS: What?  | Read More »

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 18th at 08:16 AM  | 

I REPEAT: TOTUS ONE HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED. A truck carrying President Obama’s podium, teleprompter and audio equipment was stolen in Richmond, Va., a local news outlet reports. Sources tell WWBT/NBC12 that around $200,000 of presidential equipment was stolen from a Richmond Marriott hotel location in advance of Wednesday’s presidential visit to Chesterfield, Va. President Obama had no comment.