May 20, 2013 – including Big Money lobbyist – that the Occupiers ostensibly stood against in the first place. … Because the gap between ‘bought into the Occupy mythos’ and ‘can’t be trusted to come in out of the rain’ ain’t all that wide… Moe … Lane (crosspost) PS: Notice, of course, that the Occupiers are downright eager to go after the black guy.…

May 16, 2013 – The IRS Scandal Is About Who The American Left Has Become. “Now I’m not the typ’a guy who says ‘I told you so.’ … the earth. … The Modern American Left does hate and disrespect its ideological opposition to the point that it will use the power of the state to…

May 30, 2013 – Obamanomics is all about selling the future down the river in exchange for enough Big Government swag to buy the next election. … The only real problem with our centralized government is that it’s not big enough yet.   … It’s just the latest element of the Big Government system to require eternal tinkering – one more sputtering, squealing engine that…

May 28, 2013 – will throw the election to the Democrats.  … As the saying goes, whatever comes around goes around, and now the shoe is on the other foot.  … across the political spectrum.…

May 24, 2013 – One of the most potent examples is the cultural devastation wrought by the Great Society.   … And of course, a prevailing sense of resentment for those who unfairly amass great wealth, by exploiting the Little Guy, leads to political … Only power-hungry politicians – including big players in the cultural or economic arenas with political aspirations – are likely to…

Jun 3, 2013 – Bush won, barely, in 2000, and expanded his lead in 2004 as both a populist reformer and the guy who could keep us safe. … They give people hope that the American aristocracy of big business, lobbyists, the rich, and career politicians can be fought.On the … To many of those left on the outside have craved the access of the inside and gone in.…

Jun 18, 2013 – The deviations become so extensive that nobody can even discern the mean along the curve. … All of the suit and tie guy, grey world of city misery, ugly buildings and ugly jobs, boring meetings and dishonest people, interpersonal … It’s the death of a thousand cuts. No act by itself is big, but together, they make civilization a hateful place.…

Jun 14, 2013 – bested him in the 2012 GOP primary, but wound up losing the general election: One after another, they talked about the business … And the Left has done an amazingly effective job of convincing them to ignore the predatory habits and greed of the political class … wins the election… even though almost every national candidate from both big parties is very far removed from living a middle-class…

Jun 13, 2013 – Now, all of this may have been a big coincidence or misunderstanding. Maybe the guy was handing out playing cards. … Maybe the guy was giving back change after a coffee run. … Maybe the guy was paying off the anti-recall protesters legally, assuming that the guy was reporting all those cash money the way that…

Jul 9, 2013 – After a while the new guy got arrested in less than desirable circumstances (basically a crack house). … In the interim, the station asked me to come back. … People care about more than politics and, on radio, they want to know the guy they’re listening to on the way home does too.Once you…

Jul 1, 2013 – One part of the Obama administration ants to get kids online even as the FTC thinks kids need protected from the Internet because of … the privacy cult. … Traditionally WIPO has been pretty well stacked against the little guy trying to ride a big name.…

Jul 1, 2013 – Imagine the Democrats reelecting a guy like this from one of their most liberal urban districts. … Spencer Bachus has always been a big government Republican.  He has supported all the financial bailouts.  … During a recent hearing at the House Judiciary Committee about learning the mistakes of the 1986 amnesty, Bachus was the only member…

Sep 27, 2013 – Pretty strong words from a guy who voted for the Defense of Marriage Act. … skip the part in the law where it says they have to prove they qualify for the goodies. … So the law is THE LAW when Senator Reid says it’s the law.…

Sep 25, 2013 – Cruz is unwilling to play the game the way others have played it. The Establishment likes to punish that sort. … the nomination. … guy they didn’t care for — and they did — they assumed the folks telling them to suck it up would do the same now for them.Conservative…

Sep 19, 2013 – Of course, note that while the the rule requires Verizon not to restrict people from using the devices of their choice, and note, he … for the states, not something that tries to force states into the deal. … The solution is to repeal entirely the anti-cable rules that were put into place in the Cable Act, that were designed to give an edge…

Sep 18, 2013 – Obama has assured us that he’s a big picture kind of guy. … Aircraft and ships from the two countries have played cat-and-mouse in the vicinity of the islands ever since, raising fears of conflict … This is simply the latest in a series of moves by the Chinese to establish actual hegemony over the South China Sea and East China…

Oct 11, 2013 – Aren’t the benefits worth the cost? … outweighs the net benefit of the program! … He’s just a self-centered fat cat, out to screw the little guy… unlike the Solyndra executive who lined his wallet with taxpayer dollars…

Oct 9, 2013 – Did those who thought that the big Silk Road shutdown wasn’t a big deal, realize more arrests were coming? Heh. … Speaking of Tor, the Greenwald-Snowden propaganda campaign continues, trying to get the public to call off the dogs from the dangerous … It’s an issue that could go either way with the public, though I continue to maintain the big box retailers have completely poisoned…

Oct 9, 2013 – Well, Big Government excels at that.  It’s just about the only thing it consistently does better than the private sector.   … On the other hand, prioritizing is what Big Government stinks the worst at.   … Freezing the national debt would require the big spenders to make some tough decisions, trimming enough fat from Leviathan’s flanks…

Nov 6, 2013 – The guy was in favor of buggery and free dope so it is understandable how a political philosophy that focuses on satisfying the most … Last night the answer was pretty clear: Nothing. Christie was in the election to win big for Christie. He did. Good for him. … accused the NJ Democrat party of throwing the election — and hurled everything they had into the race to beat the guy who, according…

Nov 5, 2013 – lack of desire on the part of the Establishment to resist the radical statism that has epitomized the regime of Barack Obama and the … Many solid conservatives have insisted that the division is overblown and that a big tent is necessary to win elections. … the very devil himself… after the next election… and provided the right guy wins.…

Oct 30, 2013 – Right now much of the commentariat, both left and right, are focused on the abysmal performance of the Healthcare.gov website, the … They are never going to abandon the cool guy with the perfect pants crease. … The Achilles heel of Obamacare, and of the regime, is the brutal and arbitrary nature of the law itself.…

Oct 28, 2013 – The Ned Lamont campaign in 2006 proved that progressives had the stick, but not the carrot – so the progressives were feared by a few … the lower court, but abandoning it nonetheless illustrated that Christie calculated no real political upside to making a big symbolic … Cuccinelli, a guy who has fought the good fight on conservative causes both popular and controversial from Obamacare to climate science…

Nov 11, 2013 – The wage changes over time, but the argument doesn’t. … When I was managing the support department at a prosperous young computer company, I once ran afoul of a guy who showed up for a job … ’s hiring” by the end of the day.  …

Nov 9, 2013 – I mean, obviously it’s going to mess up Joe Biden’s life: he’s the Vice President of the administration who turned the roll-out of … the single most iconic representation of the progressive/liberal concept of big government into a prolonged rake-stepping session. … He’s the guy who screwed up the state exchange with all the big advantages, coming in. 2016 is going to be a whale of a campaign,…