Jihad-watchers beclowning themselves over Perry/Ismaili thing. [Updated]

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 26th at 02:00 PM  | 

Yeah. I’m kicking it Old School here: “anti-Idiotarian” is one of those terms of art from the far-off dawn of the blogosphere (which is to say, 2003 or so). Then again, a lot of the people who are going to be talked about here have been in the ‘sphere for that long; so keep that in mind. There’s a history here, and it’s not always | Read More »

Stopping more Tax Hikes on the poor in Florida.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 22nd at 09:18 PM  | 

This ad comes from Grover Norquist’s Americans For Tax Reform, and it’s aimed squarely at the Florida legislature’s attempt to emulate the Obama administration’s recent lower-class tax hike: The argument here is actually very simple: cigarette taxes are in fact taxes, not ‘user fees’ or any other kind of bureaucratic nonsense.  People like to pretend otherwise because it’s easier to pass something that’s not called | Read More »