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Almost didn't post this year. (Still counts if I haven't slept, yah?) This was the first time since That Tuesday that I've actua...

Bethany Mandel, at Commentary offers some badly-needed thoughts on the meme that a Romney Presidency will constitute a massive step back fo...

As lively and bracing as this election has surely been, I've been looking forward to the traditional Al Smith dinner like even the most ...

So, what business does an agnostic , non-affluent, socially-liberal, post-graduate-educated, Northeast city-born, suburban-dwelling bloke (t...

From the opinion pages of the WSJ  comes this withering synopsis  of POTUS Obama's relentless (and ultimately self-defeating) pursuit of...

Via Powerline ,  comes this highly-recommended George Will  interview with "political philosopher," Charles Kesler . Will, via K...

Culled from the viscous surface of my Facebook feed comes this little nugget from NPR , which (shockiest of shocks) maintains (or, rather im...

[by Mr.Hengist] Now, me, I’m not big on anniversaries, not even my own birthday. Just not caring, is all. When I was a kid I looked forwar...

[by Mr.Hengist] VPOTUS Dick Cheney has a new book out , and Liberal poindexters are using their column space to take their shots. It would b...

This started out as a reply to Mr Hengist's most righteous fisking of WaPo's Eugene Robinson, but it really started to look like a ...

[by Mr.Hengist] Republicans are a bunch of terrorist hostage-taking criminals for trying to impose their ideological insanity upon the n...

[by Mr.Hengist] Last night I was mulling over something VPOTUS Biden said regarding the current budget dispute: "The Republicans this ...

CNN reports that Governor Tim Pawlenty will be announcing the formation of a Presidential Exploratory Committee today. Not surprised, but p...

Apropos of nothing, I felt I would be remiss in failing to point out that today marks the point at which it will be exactly two years till t...

[by Mr.Hengist] Glenn Greenwald put out a piece on January 18th, 2011 which must have been as difficult for him to write as it was amusing f...

[by Mr.Hengist] ... aaaaand no sooner do I publish my previous blogpost ( Their Uncivil Terms of Civil Discourse ) than " The New Repub...

[by Mr.Hengist] On January 8th, 2011 in Tucson, Arizona, nineteen people were shot, six fatally, others grievously, including Rep. Gabrielle...