Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
America’s finest news network convened a panel of commentators and economic experts to debate whether the US government should continue dumping money into a giant hole.  Overwhelmingly, they agree that this must continue.
Truthfully, I can think of several programs worse than dumping money into a giant pit.

By Thoreau
Radley Balko alerts us to the case of 4 sailors who confessed to a rape and murder that they did not commit, as evidenced by recent DNA results and the confession of another person whose DNA matches crime scene evidence.
This was done in the normal justice system, and it was still a travesty, so [...]

By Thoreau
Somebody wrote an Obama version of Super Mario Bros.  And based on the Palin jokes in it, particularly the jokes focused on her shopping habits, I’d say it’s pretty recent.  Somebody works fast.

Sean Scallon is mostly correct in his diagnosis of What Happened:
The conservative tradition of Burke expounded on by people like Russell Kirk or Richard Weaver simply was politically unsellable to the general public when actually tried. This why the Reagan Revolution failed, this why the Gingrich Revolution failed. The politicians then moved to right-socialism in [...]