The Left’s rage about President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Accord should surprise no one. Lefties are gonna Lefty, which usually entails whining like the tiny bitches they are, having a march that accomplishes nothing, capped off by forgetting the whole … Continue reading →
Like GorT, ‘Puter has enjoyed many of his liberal friends’ logic free, overwrought Facebook rants on the Supreme Court’s decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby et al. Unlike many of his friends, ‘Puter has actually read the Court’s decision and … Continue reading →
As our loyal readers know, ‘Puter’s earned an artium baccalaureus degree in Philosophy. ‘Puter loved learning philosophy, turning over complex ideas that have confounded humans for ages. Is God falsifiable? How (and why) do we think? What is knowledge? From … Continue reading →
The delightfully named executive director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, one Leah Gunn Barrett,* takes to the pages of today’s New York Times to display her ignorance of firearms, government and law, not necessarily in that order. Ms. Gunn … Continue reading →
The whole thing is so stupid as to be unworthy of exegesis. There is no logic. What’s at play is sheer ideological prejudice — and the enforcement of the new totalitarian norm that declares, unilaterally, certain issues to be closed. … Continue reading →
The NYT editors have been listening to columnist and smartest economist ever Paul Krugman too long. They seem to have bought Krugman’s theory that there’s no cost whatsoever to government overreach whatsoever, either in freedom or in dollars. Today ‘Puter … Continue reading →
Sen. Warren topless for this iconic corporate image. Marketers hid her exposed breasts behind a butter carton after more than 10,000 Americans suffered hysterical blindness in the initial rollout. So-called “income inequality” has had the Left’s collective panties in a wad … Continue reading →
A curious piece at The Atlantic reflects exactly how strange the liberal mindset is, even when it is trying to be honest with itself. The Czar does not normally read The Atlantic, and assumes you do not either. No need … Continue reading →
Telling someone why they’re wrongand must obey his whims. Really good review of a biography of Wilson in the CRB. Emphases Œc. Vol.’s. Woodrow Wilson was ahead of his time. Son of a Southern theologian and preacher, he was 13 … Continue reading →
…the revolting, revolting masses. The Revolt Against the Masses is the latest book from Fred Siegel, former editor of City Journal and an estimable figure in contemporary conservative thought. It is a quick read (225 pages, Encounter Books), and well worth your … Continue reading →
Let the kids play, and call the games straight Gentle Readers, Dr. J. always believed that referees are best not noticed. Invisibility correlates with quality officiating, especially in high stakes settings. There are two example that he would like to … Continue reading →
‘Puter wouldn’t be surprised to start seeing anti-Catholic editorial cartoons on the NYT’s pages again, and soon, based on the paper’s evidenced anti-Catholic bigotry. ‘Puter’s had just about enough of enlightened liberals treating religion generally, and Roman Catholicism specifically, as … Continue reading →
Island Dweller writes in with a thought or two: Most esteemed ruler of the Midwestern Icebox: You know who else had a program of mandatory national service? No? This one sort of got away on us. When something like this … Continue reading →
Your Mandarin received via shortwave radio signal the following comments in response to the post No Guns Allowed. Your Mandarin snapped this picture to which theCzar commented, “What, did they run out of rob us signs?” The first comes from … Continue reading →
Surely by now you have been treated to the unassailable wisdom of Jesse A. Myerson, Super Genius. Mr. Myerson shared his keen economic insights with Americans on the pages of that renowned financial publication, Rolling Stonein an article titled simply … Continue reading →
All right, the Czar will explain the liberal mindset yet again, but this time we will explain what the deal is with Obamacare. Even though polls are showing liberals are dumping on Obamacare (a recent poll showed only 12% of … Continue reading →
Pictured, Secretary of State John Kerry (who looks like a horse) in full fox hunting regaliabeats a dead horse whilst taking the air at hissummer cottage on Nantucket. Not to beat a dead horse, but ‘Puter’s got to keep his … Continue reading →
Hypnotoad would be a more effective president than Obama President Obama addressed the nation last night on ObamaCare. Well, Obama didn’t so much “address the nation” as summon NBC’s Chuck Todd to the White House to consult Obama, the Left’s … Continue reading →
Mika is so depressed over ObaamCare’s inexcusably inept roll out, she attempted to burn down the set of Morning Joe early Monday morning, screaming, “If I can’t believe in Obama (PBUH) any more, I don’t want to live, and you’re all … Continue reading →
President Obama claims he is willing to negotiate with Republicans, but “We can’t do it with a gun held to the head of the American people.” The President was criticized for using the expression, but Jay Carney said that the … Continue reading →
Don’ters line up at the front door of America’s very last Doer, looking for all that free crap Uncle Sugar and President Obama promised them. Don’ters are about to be extremely disappointed. Liberal politicians who’ve preyed on Don’ters fantasies for generations … Continue reading →
Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell—probably the last of Obama’s secretaries not involved in something mind-bogglingly stupid—just got herself involved in something mind-bogglingly stupid. In a Department-wide address to Interior employees, she warned them that loyalty tests shall be given … Continue reading →
Mr. West is Obama’s secretmortgage reform brain trust, originator of such great ideasas “Imma let you finish, butwhere’s my Hennessey at?” ‘Puter happened to be wandering aimlessly around the New York Times website when this article on President Obama’s forthcoming … Continue reading →
For My sake, Liberals! Don’t makeMe go all “Me throwing the moneychangers out of the Temple”on you! ‘Puter’s been thinking about fairness and social justice lately, mostly because liberals use both concepts as a bludgeon against conservative policy positions, both … Continue reading →
Kevin Cronin and REO Speedwagon secretlyadvance the grand plot of the omnipotent WhiteMale Patriarchy to keep Blacks down throughjudicious application of late 1970s rock music. In the immortal words of REO Speedwagon, ‘Puter’s had “enough of the falseness of a … Continue reading →
Earlier this morning in his post on Fisher v. University of Texas, ‘Puter closed by stating “Justice Ginsburg is a laughingstock and no longer should be permitted to take part in Court decisions.” ‘Puter promised to provide an explanation for … Continue reading →
“Boy, as a really, really observant RomanCatholic, am I looking forward to meetingJesus. He’ll be so proud of me, increasingthe rights of His womyn creatures to indiscriminately slaughter their young.” ‘Puter’s governor, the ever-delightful Andrew Cuomo, has come up with … Continue reading →
Gov. Cuomo demonstrates the danger offinger guns before Mayor Bloomberg joinshim on stage to introduce their jointlegislative proposal “Fingerguns UnderControl of Kids Kill Us Act,” or as it iswidely known, Cuomo’s FUCKKU Act. ‘Puter’s a casual hunter, and an even … Continue reading →
Liberals believe as an article of faith that liberals – and only liberals – support and defend the Bill of Rights. It’s those racist white male conservatives in horrid red flyover states that want keep women in the kitchen and … Continue reading →
What do the IRS scandal and the Senate’s hearing on Apple’s tax avoidance have in common? Both events lay bare modern American liberalism’s Achilles’ heel. Just like Prohibition, Liberalism dependson Americans’ willingness to voluntarilycomply with laws requiring Americansto do something … Continue reading →
Yeah, it’s been a bad week for egotistical,hubristic dipsticks everywhere. And it’sabout darned time. ‘Puter’s been off the grid for the past few days, mostly because his work computer got infected with malware.* ‘Puter also learned that his office servers … Continue reading →
The US Senate treated foolish, ill-consideredgun control legislation much as Eliot Ness treated Frank Nitti: both are currently waitingin the car. And good riddance. To hear those on the Left tell it, the Senate’s failure to pass gun control legislation yesterday … Continue reading →
‘Puter and Czar at “Newlywed Gay CouplesDrink Free Night” at the Leaping Peacock.We’re not actually gay, but there’s nothingwe won’t do for free booze. There’s been no end of uninformed opining on the Left’s newly-discovered Constitutional right to gay marriage … Continue reading →
A sign directs summoned reporters to the location of Mayor Bloomberg’s hastilyscheduled press conference. He Who KnowsBetter Than You explained the judicial banof his soda ban was ill-considered becausethe judge is a moron who can’t see that themayor should be able to … Continue reading →
Ah, well, it looks like the liberal whackjobs are after the Boy Scouts again, and are fostering the idea that Scouts might consider allowing gays to lead scouting programs. True? False? Actually, these things do not matter to the liberals; … Continue reading →
Every liberal who thinks her opinionon the Second Amendment should control‘Puter’s rights should imagine this guydeciding what her Constitutional rightsshould be, and behave accordingly. In recent days many of ‘Puter’s leftist friends have taken to Facebook, crowing about how fantastic … Continue reading →
‘Puter finally had opportunity to review Governor Andrew Cuomo’s (D-NY, but then I repeat myself) newly proposed restriction on firearms. Among Gov. Cuomo’s proposals are the following two: (1) all sales of ammunition will require a background check; and (2) … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s more liberal friends, which is to say every friend except his fellow Gormogons, cannot fathom why ‘Puter would be suspicious of the latest push to restrict legal gun ownership in the United States. After all, all good and right-thinking … Continue reading →
The world-famous Nightfly transmitted the following to the Czar via Dream-o-Scope. Due to the length and content, the Czar elected not to use blockquotes, but instead is altering the font. Behold our power to change the very appearances of letters … Continue reading →
To hear Progressives tell it, unions today are still the same stand-up-for-the-little-guy voluntary association of pure-minded do-gooders from the halcyon days of the Great Depression. You know. Like the beneficent United Auto Workers union responsible in 1937 for illegally occupying a privately owned business, … Continue reading →
E.J. Dionne prepares to let loose anotherunction implosion all over the WashingtonPost’s newsroom. Better get the Brawny out. Before we begin and apropos of nothing, did you know that “opinion columnist” is an anagram of “unction implosion?” Not that this … Continue reading →
Oh yeah, they have a solution for you, all right. Here’s a new meme. Or rather, a really old meme being given a new application. As you may have heard, there is a neo-Nazi-like political party in Greece ascending in … Continue reading →
A thousand monkeys labor at a thousandtypewriters in a dank, dimly lit basementat the Washington Post, churning out editorials,subsisting on a meager diet of E.J. Dionne’s cast off half-empty Courvoisier bottles andRichard Cohen’s beard trimmings. Today’s Washington Post editorial takes … Continue reading →
He looks pretty worked up about something, doesn’t he? He’s got a good logo, all he needs is a nifty hat and some medals. In a speech in Pueblo, Colorado 81009 (a ZIP Dr. J. knows from those ads on … Continue reading →
If all gay marriages were Hello Kittythemed and held at Gay Pride Parades,they’d be much more popular. ‘Puter’s noticed gay marriage proponents have ceased calling gay marriage gay marriage. The radical left before ‘Puter’s bleary eyes has disappeared the phrase … Continue reading →
Liberals count on us not to notice the atfirst small restrictions of our liberties. Once we’re securely bound, that’s whenthey’ll come for our core freedoms. Also,Czar has a Mickey Mouse BDSM fetish. ‘Puter’s been reading his favorite left of center … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s reminded constantly of this old saw when he reads just about anything written by a liberal columnist in any major publication. On just about any topic, Democrats make up “facts” to fit their preferred world view. How come when … Continue reading →
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. What’s changed is that you aren’t as nice. The Volgi and the Czar both found that we are all supposed to get ready for Occupy 2.0, a re-launched, re-branded, new logoed, … Continue reading →
Why ‘Puter reads E.J. Dionne is beyond ‘Puter. Heck, why anyone reads E.J. Dionne is beyond ‘Puter. Yet, like a moth to the flame, Green Lantern to Kato and Czar to the closest cervine, ‘Puter is inexorably drawn to Mr. … Continue reading →
The Gormogons like to play compare and contrast in order to reach a higher sense of understanding. Yesterday, the Czar excoriated the vile Charles Worley for his know-nothing rant about gays. In response, the Czar received what he considers a … Continue reading →
The Czar is wont to make predictions, and today he makes another one. Society has basically had enough with goofy leftism. 2010 saw a major political swing back toward something resembling common sense, although clearly there is much work to … Continue reading →
As you heard, Joltin’ Joe Biden announced that he’s now totally in favor of same sex marriage, and cited a fifteen-year-old television show he evidently never watched as the reason why. The President, though, is still evolving on the subject. … Continue reading →
Well, if you need any more evidence that Leftists want to take over every aspect of your life, here is yet one more that indicates utter cluelessness: America’s obesity epidemic is so deeply rooted that it will take dramatic and … Continue reading →
Paul Krugman deigns to share his Nobel laureate economic wisdom with us intellectual peons in today’s New York Times. And thank goodness Mr. Krugman shared his truthiness with ‘Puter, because ‘Puter never would’ve been able to figure out the correct answer on … Continue reading →
Borepatch finally reveals why he has been optimistic lately. Mind you, that is as rare as either Confucius* being upbeat about something or rain on the moon. Take your pick. But BP seems a bit upbeat because he is sensing … Continue reading →
Operative ME of AZ wrote the Czar a letter regarding his early hours screed about choosing between Obama and the Second Amendment. The Czar expected email, but this response was outstanding and perfectly crafted. Lest you think the Czar is … Continue reading →
Trust us in our ability to predict things. But what’s worse than the old Cassandra complex, in which you rail that no one believes your predictions until after they come true? When people tend not to listen, but then go … Continue reading →
Everyone loves free stuff. Everyone except ‘Puter, that is. Each time ‘Puter is offered something “for free,” ‘Puter’s skeptical mind immediately starts looking for the person’s angle. ‘Puter’s had some interesting conversations with car dealers, appliance salesmen, Jehovah’s Witnesses and … Continue reading →
Readers know the Czar is most upset about the HHS letter; not for personal religious or political reasons, but because this is a brazen assault on our Constitution by a man sworn to defend it from exactly this type of … Continue reading →
Borepatch takes time away from his award-winning or whatever writing to carve this message into a dead Thracian warrior’s helmet. Not sure where he got a dead helmet as opposed to a live one, but the guy is resourceful to … Continue reading →
Your Mandarin watched a portion of President Obama’s State of the Union address. One portion of the address that struck your Mandarin as disturbing was when the President, after stating that he wanted Congress to put a bill on his … Continue reading →
And the mail comes in: Great and Mighty, etc., Dreadful, etc., цѣсарь, Your humble Burgher of Bong sends greetings from the land of Badgers and Beer-makers and Meat-Packers. Also the land of pointless recall elections, expensive ‘bring out your dead’ … Continue reading →
Once again, it falls to the Gormogons to spell it out for everybody. Another “flash mob” incident happened in Germantown, MD, in which a group of 28 teens charged a convenience store and looted the place, evacuating in under a … Continue reading →
For the record, the Czar is not at all interested in Governor Rick Perry’s tough talk on Ben Bernanke. Not given the years of worse crap we have heard from liberal politicians. We know liberal amnesia is bad, but you … Continue reading →
Hey, Czar, the problem is that “right-wing” is a really bad descriptor. It’s basically a pejorative, as you note, at this point for “bad people.” But even if we take it a bit more analytically, comparing the European right to … Continue reading →
The Czar hates to play the blame game, and he would love to pin that reluctance on someone or something. But once again, we have to argue that the term “Right Wing” is not defined as “Anything the Left Wing … Continue reading →
Media spin and bias, and Hollywood reaffirmations of the same, can only go so far. We live in interesting times—when conservatives have found a way to overpower the monopoly on information, and when the liberals have pretty much blown their … Continue reading →
The Czar is going to reveal something that really should not surprise you. In fact, he has been saying it quite a lot over the last 48 hours, and no one who has asked the Czar has been surprised. The … Continue reading →
BG writes in to ask Dr. J: Your Czariness – You write, “The Czar is curious that members of San Francisco lefty lefts think that surgical and safe removal of the foreskin is detrimental to the child, but that cutting … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s liberal friends are at it again, blaming the Tucson massacre on conservatives. Specifically, Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann. Here’s the reasoned detailed analysis from ‘Puter’s friend, via Facebook: On my way out of this determined-to-destroy itself country–and I’m not … Continue reading →
Your Mandarin has received yet another epistle regarding the posts Programming Note and Guns On TV from Gormogon operative and all around swell guy BG: Honored Mandarin – To believe that an irrational liberal (I know, redundant) will come to … Continue reading →
Cass Sunstein: Some conservative legal thinkers like Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas think that the Constitution means what it originally meant. That means we should understand the document by going into a kind of time machine and capturing the public … Continue reading →
The Czar has begun to make the point that the Right has begun to master modern media. And the horrors they find are arriving almost daily. You might think there was an epidemic of violence breaking out among the Left: … Continue reading →
Here’s the thing about this—we used to be able to build some impressive stuff quickly as well. Empire State Building: 410 days. Rockefeller Center (14 buildings): nine years—of which Radio City Music Hall was done in the first two years … Continue reading →
In regards to the Czar‘s post on the typology of various South African terrorist groups as left or right, the Volgi would like to add that it shouldn’t be forgotten that apartheid, like most social-engineering projects, was a result of … Continue reading →
Under the rubric “Liberal Fascism: The Font,” Jonah points us to this fun piece on the documentary Helvetica, by Ed Driscoll (whose blog is also linked at left). Mr. D. writes (emphasis ours): And just check out the block of … Continue reading →
Wow, Jonah was right on that whole liberal-fascist thing. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Moussa Dadis Camara, the head of Guinea’s junta, seized power in a bloodless coup in 2008 and promised to return the country swiftly to democracy. Somehow, something derailed. The joyfully exuberant crowds—tired of the previous government’s corruption—welcomed the reform-minded Dadis … Continue reading →
There’s an on-going discussion on H.P. Lovecraft at NRO’s Corner which paints a partially correct view of H.P. Lovecraft, but completely misses out on Lovecraft’s dismal and vicious politics. John Derbyshire quotes Sam Francis as calling HPL “one of America’s … Continue reading →
Thomas L. Friedman of the New York Times really wants President Obama to make him czar of something. Anything. He is well qualified. For one thing, he likes “pragmatism,” and he thinks national socialism is a good idea. In an … Continue reading →
You’d think someone would write a book. Not that there’s a word of truth in Jonah Goldberg’s tragically best-selling compendium of scurrilous rumors and accounts of idiosyncratic, marginal cranks like Woodrow Wilson, George Creel, Mitchell Palmer, Herbert Croly, Fr. Coughlin, … Continue reading →
And the answer to the Volgi’s question…apparently yes! Photo: Yakov Mikhaylovich is pleased at the downfall of a czar, yet saddened by the defeat of a fellow Bolshevik. That’s one conflicted death squadder. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like … Continue reading →
Well, as you have likely heard by now, the Secretary of Education is pulling back on the Obama-related activities students are to partake in before, during, and after his address to the youth of America. Oh, and as ‘Puter reminded … Continue reading →
Download: Secretary of Education Arne Duncan sent a letter to all school principals that POTUS Obama will speak to school children on September 8 on an unprecedented internet feed. Millons of school children will stop their day, gather in classrooms … Continue reading →
News in Japan is not promising. Lower House elections are taking place tomorrow (or today, by the time you read this), and the polls seem to indicate that the long-serving Liberal Democratic Party is about to be thrown out of … Continue reading →
In the Guardian (shock), Michael Tomasky approvingly quotes Andrew Sullivan’s analogizing CIA interrogators to the Gestapo. He writes; This reminds me of my larger theory, which I may get around to presenting to you sometime, that I believe that Nazi … Continue reading →
The Czar really hates the United Nations. You all know this. Muscovy, for example, is not a member of the UN and never will be. Neither is the nation of TJICistan. The UN, if you don’t realize this, is an … Continue reading →
…and a communist revolutionary? So he’s going to go down to the basement and pump himself full of lead? Photo: Yakov Yurovsky, death squad leader. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Czar наш, You must have misunderstood Congressman Waxman. The Democrats made it clear that “questioning someone’s patriotism” is a political crime that is beyond the pale, despicable, un-American, un-patriotic… Hmm. if only someone had written a book about the leftist … Continue reading →
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Stalin), if this has not been said too many times here, is an outrageous idiot. By now you have heard this statement, from a radio interview he gave: “It appears that the Republican Party leadership in the … Continue reading →
The Czar would like to propose that the name “Bush Test” be formally applied to any test that asks, “Had you made the same comment about George W. Bush, would it be offensive or welcomed?” Case in point: small town … Continue reading →
Gormogons Follower Djinifer writes in, in re “Oh Brother”, noting the Czar: …quotes one parent as saying, “Our schools are a reflection of our community and world…From a very early age, children should see what exists in the world.” Yeah … Continue reading →
In another stunning case of liberal fascism (click on the tag below for more), Alameda USD parents are outraged that a new anti-bullying effort will begin teaching children as young as five all about the lesbian, gay, and transgendered community. … Continue reading →
In describing the hard left’s enthusiasm for stifling dissent from their tenets. As usual, he’s very good. So supporting “internationalism,” “multilateralism,” abortion and racial quotas means you’re “moderate” and “nonideological”? And anyone who feels differently is an extreme ideologue? Absolutely. … Continue reading →
Please note: the following is submitted, via the Czar, by The Mandarin, an inscrutable character from the shadows of Gormogonica. While having lunch with Czar the other day in his royal dining hall, the conversation turned to a discussion of … Continue reading →
The end: socialized medicine The means: simply imposing it, without having campaigned on it or letting it be debated, much less voted on. That’s the proctalgia you feel. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Which Ms. Prejean is the Miss USA runner-up? The Czar couldn’t figure it out. The Czar genuinely detests beauty pagents for all the usual reasons. Unlike most folks, though, he actually knows a former Miss Muscovy who was an in-law … Continue reading →
For those who haven’t read DHS Chief Janet Napolitano’s briefing (I have in full) that has been making all the ruckus, it’s worth a read. I might argue that it is either mis-classified or is being mishandled by some but … Continue reading →
We’re all fascists now, says Michael Ledeen. He’s right, of course. The cartelization of industry under state control (and partial ownership)—exactly the “bailout’s” mandate—is textbook fascist economics (as the Volgi pointed out frequently when the Clintons attempted to cartelize the … Continue reading →
