The Rule of Law vs. “Calvinball”

I’ve been swamped all week, so I’m re-posting an item from last summer, back before our readership really started to climb. And given much of the news we’ve been seeing lately, this post is even more applicable now than it was then. 

Please note its author is Dapper Dan, a buddy of ours who blogs over at Principles, Not Men. Any and all kudos should be directed to him. 

I’ll simply mention what I said six months ago: anytime you can combine Hayek, the Federalist Papers AND ‘Calvin & Hobbes‘ into a single, highly cogent post, you’re doing somethin’ right.

Happy Friday, gang.

–JTR

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Rule of Law

The term “Rule of Law” is an important term in political dialogue.  Accepting this belief or not will determine where you stand on many, if not most, of the issues.

In The Road to Serfdom, F.A. Hayek describes it thus:

Since we only have a few more shopping days until Christmas….

…I thought it’d be appropriate to re-post this. 

Everyone keeps saying that we buy more and more online, and that the bricks-and-mortar stores are suffering. Well, someone neglected to tell that to the people in my city. I live near a large shopping district and a mall, and the only way to get more folks in here on the weekends is if we airdropped them in like relief packages. 

So, whether you’re venturing out to just purchase one present or all of them, you should probably read this first. It’s some good information to have freshly tucked away, before you and your MasterCard leave the house. The merchants have been waiting all year to see you, …and they’re intent on having you spend some cash during your stay. 

Here’s hoping you enjoy the ‘hustle-and-bustle’ of the stores (that sounds more festive than ‘crazed mobs‘, don’t you think?), and be sure to wish everyone a Merry Christmas!

–JTR

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BEFORE YOU GO SHOPPING TODAY….

(***Originally posted 6/23/2012)

….you may wish to check out Kathryn Blaze Carlson’s excellent article in the National Post from earlier this month. It touches on something that we all know in our hearts, but we usually feel we’re smart enough to avoid: Marketing.

The marketers are everywhere: Google, the supermarket, where we buy gas…….we can’t escape ‘em. To deal with being constantly saturated by marketing, we simply believe we’re so savvy that we can see through all of the marketer’s ploys.

Yeah, right. Guess again.

From Canada’s National Post:

Judge on Pennsylvania Voter ID: “Sounds like a good idea. So, ..no”.

Why do I live in such a stupid state?

Courtesy of MSN.com:

Updated at 11:10 a.m., 10/2/12 – A Pennsylvania judge has blocked enforcement of the key section of a voter identification law which the state legislature enacted and Republican Gov. Tom Corbett signed last March, meaning that the law will not be in effect for the Nov. 6 election.

Judge Robert Simpson said that even with the streamlined procedures that state officials proposed to make it easier for voters without ID cards to obtain them, “the proposed changes are to occur about five weeks before the general election, and I question whether sufficient time now remains to attain the goal of liberal access” to ID cards.

He said, “I expected more photo IDs to have been issued by this time. For this reason, I accept Petitioners’ argument that in the remaining five weeks before the general election, the gap between the photo IDs issued and the estimated need will not be closed.”

Notice that the judge doesn’t bother to specify what amount of IDs would have qualified as “more”. Thanks so much, Justice Nebulous….

However, it wasn’t a total loss:

Simpson also said that those challenging the law have conceded that the part of the law which requires proof of identification for absentee voting does not harm would-be voters and may be implemented.

Okay, that’s something, especially since early voting tends to favor the Democrats.

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Rather than go off on my typical rant, I’m just going to offer a refresher course in why Voter ID makes total, absolute sense and those folks throwing a fit over it are clearly either (A) up to no good or (B) semi-sentient.

This post ran back during the summer, and was from our Guest Noggin, ‘LivinRightInPGH’. I’m just including the essential parts, but you’re certainly welcome to go back and read the entire thing.

I’m intrigued and more than a little concerned by the whole issue that surrounds the integrity of voting in these great United States.  Moreover, I’m perplexed as to why the US Department Of Justice, led by Eric Holder, is doing everything in its power to block any measure that would enforce Voter ID laws.  I’d like to say that I don’t understand why they’d do such a thing, but sadly…I do.

If you can’t win on the issues, and if you can’t win fairly at the ballot box, you’re going to need a whole bunch of dead folks, non-citizens, et al, to swing the election your way.

Perhaps this is why Holder’s Justice Department stopped non-partisan election reform by claiming that unless there was a “D” next to a candidate’s name, African-American voters “wouldn’t be able to identify and vote for the Democrats.”  He went on to call laws requiring valid voter ID a “poll tax,” with the clear aim of stoking racial animus.  It was such a distasteful argument that even the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals rejected it.

As I recall, JTR covered a ton of places where ID is needed in a post several months ago. They included:

• Driving
• Getting on an airplane
• Opening a bank account

(Oh, by the way:  If you want to visit the USDOJ, you need to show proper and acceptable ID.  Just sayin’…)

The whole argument against voter ID laws from the left is a smokescreen of perceived racism just to cover up one simple fact:  Without voter fraud, they CAN’T win.

The Heritage Foundation recently noted:

“Georgia, which has had voter ID since 2007, allows six different forms of ID to vote.  And there has been no stampede of would-be voters who lack identification:  ‘The number of photo IDs issued by Georgia to individuals who did not already have one of the forms of ID acceptable under state law is remarkably small, averaging less (than) 0.05% in most years, and not even reaching 3/10ths of 1% in a presidential election year.’”

You may be interested to know, however, that in Georgia, Hispanic voting increased over 140% from 2004 to 2008, while African-American voting increased by 42% over the same time frame.

So much for disenfranchisement.

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One more quote from Heritage:

“America cannot allow its elections to be anything but secure and legal.  Preventing voter fraud is common sense, and it is outrageous that the U.S. Justice Department would stand in the way.”

Well, my friends, outrageous or not, this is EXACTLY what they’re doing.

Obama’s ‘War on Coal’ is marching on. YOU can stop it.

COAL. Along with natural gas, coal is an American energy source which is affordable, proven and incredibly plentiful in our country.

Which means, of course, that Obama wants to kill it.

What else?

Not scary enough for ya? No problem: we’ve covered this before, in detail:

• In Obama’s cross-hairs: COAL
• Battling the big MACT
• Raked over the Coals

That new 30-second ad arrives on the heels of a recent article by two Representatives in U.S. Congress, Shelley Moore Capito & Bill Johnson. Writing in ‘The Hill‘ blog, they detailed one thing: President Obama’s disdain for all things Coal.

“Since taking office, President Obama and his extreme EPA have issued new rules and regulations that are crippling the coal industry. In the weeks following President Obama’s inauguration, his administration was already in the process of rewriting the Stream Buffer Zone Rule – a rule that took 5 years to codify under the previous administration. President Obama’s rewrite of this one rule would cost tens of thousands of direct and indirect coal jobs.

New and costly regulations on coal-fired power plants are on their way. This “Train Wreck” of new EPA regulations has already caused companies like AEP and FirstEnergy to close coal-fired power plants throughout Ohio and the East costing jobs in places where unemployment is staggering. Also, President Obama’s EPA has taken actions toclassify coal ash as a hazardous material. Coal ash is used in drywall, concrete, and even bowling balls.

There’s no denying that we want clean air and clean water. But the President’s policies in no way balance protecting the environment with protecting jobs.”

Congress must have read their article, because the U.S. House of Representatives took a vote the very next day:

19 Democrats joined with their GOP counterparts in the House today to vote in favor of legislation aimed at keeping coal plants open. The 233-175 vote is the last House lawmakers will take for the next seven weeks, as they now head back to their districts to campaign for the November 6 elections.

The Stop the War on Coal Act, H.R. 3409, introduced by Rep. Bill Johnson (R-Ohio), would prevent the Obama administration from enforcing or instituting any new regulations on coal producers until at least the end of next year.

And, of course, Guess Who has already threatened to veto this Bill?

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So, if ANY of this is important to you, your family, your town or your way of life…..you know what to do:

Pass it on….

Hey, “Bush-Lied-People-Died” crowd! Where are you guys NOW?

My, how times change.

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The White House has now acknowledged that the events on 9/11/2012 in Benghazi were, indeed, a terrorist attack. This comes on the heels of their insistence that, for two weeks, the attacks were inspired by a “YouTube video”. You will hear only a very few of the reporters (for now) report on the obvious and flagrant lie: the White House immediately suspected terrorism, and it now is certain that they confirmed this as a terrorist act within 24 hours.

Now, do me a lil’ favor, if you please: think back to the Bush years, when the mantra of “Bush Lied, People Died” became as ubiquitous as hearing “Bless you” after a sneeze. This narrative was constant: G. W. Bush had intricately planned and rationalized the Iraq War, misleading our nation & the world into a war-for-oil, and not to prevent Saddam Hussein from using his non-existent WMD’s.

Remember all that? I sure do.

Consider, then, that prelude to the War in Iraq took from September 12th, 2001 to March 19th, 2003. Over a year, with mountains of evidence. And somehow he fooled everyone? For over a year? This man, who throughout his presidency was repeatedly portrayed as being slightly dumber than a bag of hammers, was able to construct history’s most complex prevarication, without the truth leaking out? Code Pink and the Media would then have us believe Bush was, incongruously, the world’s first-ever ‘stupid evil genius‘.

Only Liberal logic could make that claim with a straight face.

And yet, the mantra persisted, and is still accepted as fact today by many in the self-professed ‘Smart Party’.

In contrast, this month is what it looks like when a president actually lies, even if that president is protected by the Media as if he were Charlemagne 2.0.

Because now, when his own Press Secretary says that it is “self-evident” (two weeks later, of course) that this attack was not from a whacked-out Muslim mob spontaneously reacting to an unknown YouTube clip but an actual act of terror, we have the Obama Administration flailing around, jumping from story to story, as each previous lie unravels.

And yes, the word is lie. 

Not a shading of the truth. Not spin. Not a fib. Not a dodge.

A big, fat, ugly, narcissistic, contemptible lie.

And a lie which cost, and will continue to cost, American lives. Coming on the heels of Fast and Furious, this is beyond unconscionable.

It will be all I can do to contain my emotions as I watch our current elected Commander-in-Chief waltz around the countryside, promising Utopian solutions to problems he has created. We keep precious little alcohol in our house at any one time, and I may need to stock up in order to cope.

But after watching the self-serving and pusillanimous way he has allowed these atrocities to occur and then tried to obscure the facts afterward, I can only hope you’ll join me in trying to alert everyone to his treachery prior to election day.

***Shorter version of that last sentence: “help us kick him to the curb”.

Romney: “I want to get us back to being AMERICA”

A quick follow-up from our earlier post today.

Courtesy of HotAir.com:

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The debates are next week, as Erika Johnsen at HotAir points out, and the stunningly stark differences between the two candidates should be even more visible.

Just for a quick review, here’s a (very) partial recap of Obama’s record:

• The Muslim world is rioting against us.
• Allies (Poland, Israel, the Czech Republic, just to name three) have been repeatedly let down or ignored by this administration.
• Food Stamp usage has more than doubled.
• Obama has now normalized the (previously unthinkable) term “Trillion dollar deficit“.
• Record-breaking unemployment: above 8% since February 2009, this is the longest period of such elevated joblessness since the Great Depression of the 1930s
• He has consistently gone around Congress with Executive Orders: in Libya, with Amnesty, and with work requirements in welfare.
• An astonishingly corrupt Department of Justice: New Black Panthers (not prosecuted); punishing Arizona for enforcing federal immigration laws; and, of course, Fast and Furious.
• Gas prices: doubled.
• Housing market: stagnant, at best.
• Food prices: significantly higher, and climbing fast.
• Taxmageddon.
• Obamacare.
• Religious freedom: ignored and patronized.

I don’t care if you voted for Obama last time. Don’t much care if you were a Ron Paul supporter, or still currently favor Gary Johnson. It doesn’t concern me in the slightest if you are “uninspired” by politics today. Those are indulgences which a country in decline can no longer afford.

If President Xerxes is allowed a second term, we’re toast. Doomed. Consummatum est.

So: Step up. Help out. Call. Write. Contribute to a campaign. Put up a sign. Do something.

Like an unsightly stain on your new shirt, Obama won’t go away just by our wanting him to.

Surprise, surprise: “U.S. Officials knew Libya Attacks were work of Al Qaeda”

Wow, who could have guessed this was the case? Other than, well, …everybody?

Courtesy of the Daily Beast:

“U.S. Officials Knew Libya Attacks Were Work of Al Qaeda Affiliates”

The phrase res ipsa loquitur comes to mind: ”the thing speaks for itself“.

Within 24 hours of the 9-11 anniversary attack on the United States consulate in Benghazi, U.S. intelligence agencies had strong indications al Qaeda–affiliated operatives were behind the attack, and had even pinpointed the location of one of those attackers. Three separate U.S. intelligence officials who spoke to The Daily Beast said the early information was enough to show that the attack was planned and the work of al Qaeda affiliates operating in Eastern Libya.

Nonetheless, it took until late last week for the White House and the administration to formally acknowledge that the Benghazi assault was a terrorist attack. On Sunday, Obama adviser Robert Gibbs explained the evolving narrative as a function of new information coming in quickly on the attacks. ”We learned more information every single day about what happened,” Gibbs said on Fox News. “Nobody wants to get to the bottom of this faster than we do.”

I’d say this is despicable, but that word just doesn’t quite encompass the enmity I’m feeling towards these traitorous cretins.

And just to review: it was a full FIVE days later, or four days AFTER they knew this was the case, that the Obama Administration trotted out UN Ambassador Susan Rice to make the rounds on the Sunday talk shows and deliberately lie to the American people.

Yes, lie. There is no other word for it. 

THIS is your current administration, folks.

Anyone want them around for four more years? You must truly hate our country if you do.

TAXMAGEDDON (Be afraid; be very afraid…)

I abhor repeating myself, but some things bear repeating.

Therefore, I’m once again linking a brief description from Heritage.com on the imminent threat of Taxmageddon, which is the half-trillion-dollar tax tsunami slated to hit our shores in January, 2013. Also included is a new, bold, easy-to-understand graphic.

If you like paying more of your income in taxes, you’re simply gonna love this.

There is only one way for us to avoid this, boys & girls….and giving Obama 4 more years ain’t it.

Please share.

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Taxmageddon Is Huge - 

• Unprecedented Tax Hike For 2013: Starting January 1, 2013, Americans will face a $494 billion tax increase, the highest ever in one year. Obamacare’s tax increase over 10 years barely edges ahead of Taxmageddon at $502 billion. The average American household would see its taxes rise by $3,800 in 2013 alone. And this is just for one year. Taxpayers would see even higher tax hikes in succeeding years.
• Expiring Tax Cuts and Obamacare’s New Taxes: Almost 34% of the tax increases from Taxmageddon come from the expiration of the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts. Another 25% comes from the expiration of the payroll tax cut. Most of the remaining increases come from Obamacare, notably from the start of the hospital insurance 3.8% surtax on all forms of income over $250,000.
• Taxmageddon Hits the Middle Class: Taxmageddon falls primarily on middle- and low-income Americans. That’s because 60 percent of the Bush tax cuts went to middle and low-income taxpayers. The expiration of the patch on the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) will cause these taxpayers to pay a tax they were never supposed to be hit with, and the expiration of the payroll tax cut is a tax hike almost exclusively on middle- and low-income families. That’s just the direct impact. Americans at all income levels will feel the pain of Taxmageddon because it will slow job creation and wage growth.

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UPDATE: Please see a friend of ours’ post on this, as well.

BLACK METTLE:  100 DAYS UNTIL TAXMAGEDDON

 

Taxes and Charity: Why the Left has lost Its Mind

When Mitt Romney released his 2011 tax returns last week, along with a 3rd party summary of his returns dating back to 1990, I thought that would finally put this entire faux-issue to rest. After all, Mitt’s taxes were not only completely within reason, they highlighted his charitable contributions were far in excess of the societal norm:

“The Romneys donated $4,020,772 to charity in 2011, amounting to nearly 30% of their income.”

What was I thinking? My apologies for being so stupid…

No, no, the Left will never be satisfied with any answer, because they do not WISH to be satisfied. And in this case, they spun on a dime from their “Romney didn’t pay his taxes” mantra and immediately started bleating, “Well, Romney probably gave most of their money to the Mormon Church, and that doesn’t really count”.

Don’t believe me? Here’s a taste, from Michelle Malkin’s TWITCHY blog:

Stormye Weather@Nuclear_Wynter

I wonder how much of Mitt Romney ‘s charity was to LDS?

femalepersuasion.net@femalep

Again, reminder: #Romney‘s “charity” bankrolled hate legislation Prop 8 in CA.motherjones.com/politics/2012/…

Jason Byrne@geekwithsoul

I really wish news organizations would quit lumping Romney’s LDS tithe in with his “charity” contributions. Not quite the same thing IMO.

Ben Adler@badler

any story that talks about Romney’s charitable contributions as if the Mormon Church were a real charity is misleading its readers

Adam@vyresince

Reminder that Mormons are bound by religious doctrine to give 10% of income to church. Romney calls this ‘charity.’ 

So, since Romney is Mormon, his charity isn’t really charity? And since Mormons ‘must’ donate at least 10%, that doesn’t count, either.

That isn’t an argument; it’s a temper tantrum.

Quick question: Who among us donates to charities that DON”T espouse our values?  You won’t see me donate to Planned Parenthood, and I doubt very much that you’ll see any of the Atheist Left donate to a Christian college or a retirement home for Catholic nuns. Also, most churches believe in tithing. The fact that Romney is actually making good on his faith’s stated beliefs should be viewed as a positive, not brushed off or ignored.

This line of so-called reasoning is devoid of any/all logic.

More intolerance from the “tolerant” Left, this time from the despicable rag, The Nation (…and no, I’m not linking them. I refuse. Feel free to look it up, if you so desire):

“As you can see, the majority of the funding goes to the Mormon church. The second-biggest recipient is the Mormon university that Romney attended. Other recipients include Romney’s former business school, and the library of the former president he has an incentive to curry favor with.

In all, it is clear that Romney’s donations are about taking care of his own and advancing his personal interests. Relative to his vast wealth, he has given relatively little to programs that assist those truly in need.”

Let me make sure I follow this: Mormons in general don’t count, because they already receive donations from …other Mormons. And Romney’s alma mater doesn’t count specifically because it’s Mormon.

Got it.

In that case, what about PBS? NPR? Planned Parenthood? These groups actually receive federal government subsidies, and don’t appear to be in dire need of money. Yet, they regularly put out the call for contributions. I don’t hear anyone on the Left saying that donating to THEM doesn’t count as “charity”.

What about Media Matters for America (MMfA)? They are a non-profit, are explicitly Progressive and actively campaign for the Democrats and other political Liberals. Good luck in finding the Left on record anywhere discounting contributions to them as not being “real” charity.

This is religious intolerance, but ultimately it smacks of being desperate and petty. Those on the Left just had their rear-end handed to them, so they have no recourse but to stomp their collective feet & cry “unfair”.

Hidden in all of this is a bigger topic of Charity-vs.-Taxation as the superior way to support those in need. Friend of the blog, Dapper Dan, had a blog post the other day which quoted Alexis de Tocqueville from back in 1835:

“Individual alms-giving established valuable ties between the rich and the poor. The deed itself involves the giver in the fate of the one whose poverty he has undertaken to alleviate. The latter, supported by aid which he had no right to demand and which he may have had no hope of getting, feels inspired by gratitude. A moral tie is established between those two classes whose interests and passions so often conspire to separate them from each other, and although divided by circumstance they are willingly reconciled.

This is not the case with legal charity. The latter allows the alms to persist, but removes its morality. The law strips the man of wealth of a part of his surplus without consulting him and he sees the poor man only as a greedy stranger invited by the legislator to share his wealth. The poor man, on the other hand, feels no gratitude for a benefit which no one can refuse him and which could not satisfy him in any case.”

That should be the crucial aspect to remember in this whole discussion. When we, the rich and the poor alike, are allowed to keep our own money, we can direct it where we wish. When the government confiscates it, regardless of where it is directed, it is no longer charity: it’s theft. And theft doesn’t inspire gratitude in either the “giver” or the recipient.

Romney’s charity should be an inspiration to us all to do more for the institutions we love. Not that long ago, it would have been. But now, in Obama’s America, it is used as a point of derision and ridicule, at least among an annoyingly vocal minority.

Just another reason, in a very long list, that President Empty Chair has to go. Now.

The Real Mitt Romney – more folks need to see this

This video was rolled out the last night of the Republican Convention, the night of Mitt’s speech. It echoes what others have been saying about Romney for years now: he’s an extremely smart, decent, & solid guy…which runs 180 degrees counter to the media narrative.

When you add in the tax info and charitable donations info which he just released yesterday, he comes off as the sort of guy you hope your daughter marries, or moves in next door.

If the radical Left can somehow turn that into a negative, more power to ‘em.

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ROMNEY: “Here’s my taxes. Now, you were saying?”

Only have a few minutes here, so I’m just copying/linking this. But it’s as important a development as we’ll get this week, and needs to be seen.

This just made me smile. Big.

From Guy Benson over at Townhall.com:

It’s official: The Romney campaign possesses a wicked sense of humor and an enviable degree of patience.  After months of caterwauling, breathless innuendo and baseless slander, the Democrats and their media allies are being treated to a Friday feast of piping hot crow.  The Romney campaign has released a detailed report of the the candidate’s 2011 tax returns, as well as an extensive summary of the Romneys’ taxes over the last two decades, prepared by analysts at PricewaterhouseCoopers.  What do these documents contain?  Brad Malt, the Romney family’s trustee, summarizes the 2011 data:
 

- In 2011, the Romneys paid $1,935,708 in taxes on $13,696,951 in mostly investment income.

- The Romneys’ effective tax rate for 2011 was 14.1%.

-The Romneys donated $4,020,772 to charity in 2011, amounting to nearly 30% of their income.

-The Romneys claimed a deduction for $2.25 million of those charitable contributions. The Romneys’ generous charitable donations in 2011 would have significantly reduced their tax obligation for the year. The Romneys thus limited their deduction of charitable contributions to conform to the Governor’s statement in August, based upon the January estimate of income, that he paid at least 13% in income taxes in each of the last 10 years.

In short, and as Kevin noted, Romney forked over nearly $2 million to Uncle Sam last year and donated more than $4 million to charity.  He overpaid his taxes by limiting the charitable deductions he chose to claim, which could have driven his obligations to government even lower.  

This, in short, is just too delicious. I’d never have suspected Romney to have that sort of patience. My respect for him just doubled.

One more section from Benson:

In the last two decades, the Romney’s donated 13.45 percent of their adjusted gross income to charity.  This totally dwarfs the long-term giving of the Obamas and the Bidens, in case anyone in the class warfare camp is keeping score.  But remember, Mitt Romney is callously dismissive and uncaring toward poor people and the ’47 percent.’  Overall, the Romney family paid every cent they owed — and more — forking over nearly 40 percent of their income to either the government or charitable organizations, including their church.  I’ve got to hand it to the Romney campaign: They played a long game here, and did so masterfully.  One of the most obnoxious and relentless arrows in Democrats’ attack quiver has been the tax returns issue.  “See how greedy and secretive Romney is?  Even his own father released 12 years of returns!  He’s probably a tax cheat!” 

That’s all gone now, and the whiners look petty, small, and stupid.  And Mitt Romney looks like the remarkably generous, law-abiding, productive member of society that he is. 

Bravo.

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Bravo, indeed.

I know Romney doesn’t gamble, but still: I’d sure hate to play poker against a guy who could pull this off.

Know the Left’s tricks: read “Tyranny of Clichés” (and if you already read it, read it AGAIN)

As we get down to election “crunch” time, I’ve been going through some books that I thought would be the most pertinent, Mark Levin’s Ameritopia and Mark Steyn’s America Alone among them. I recently went so far as to flog Steyn’s book specifically.

The third book that I’m revisiting is Jonah Goldberg’s Tyranny Of Clichés. If you read Goldberg’s previous tome, Liberal Fascism, this is very, very different. It much more closely resembles the tone of his Twitter feed (read as: sarcastic & very funny“), while still being wonderfully written. It’s also incisive, and it applies so well to what we all read and see every day, we should probably keep it close-by when we’re surfing the web.

One of the many maddening observations he covers is the broad swath of leftist Liberals who fancy themselves “Independents”. Goldberg points out that the difference between them and the folks on the Right is that Conservatives openly and proudly admit their ideology, and are constantly debating and discussing it. These self-deluded Leftists pretend they have no ideology, and that their view is the mythical “center”.

Having been raised in Massachusetts, this one hits close to home for me. The Bay State has a highly pronounced Leftist leaning, yet you may be surprised by its voter registration record. In 2008, over HALF of registered voters there were “Independent”, which in reality simply meant deciding which Democrat to vote for.

Oh sure, they’ll vote for a Romney or a Scott Brown every once in a while, but that’s no more impressive than CNN covering a single Tea Party rally with some basic level of impartiality, then turning around and impugning the Tea Party 50+ times over the next five days. It’s insincere, self-congratulatory, and indulgent.

Of course, being a crazed right-wing extremist, what the heck do I know?

The Tyranny Of Clichés is a very worthy & entertaining read, and even a re-read. If you get bored easily, have no fear: this book isn’t even marginally boring. Considering what we’re all going to be wading through in the coming weeks, media-wise, I’d go so far as to say it’s essential.

To give you an additional hint of its contents, I’ve even included a video interview below.

Happy Reading this weekend, everyone.

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