First Principles

Via Instapundit, this chart is just downright scary.  And it shows how you can tell a multi-billion dollar lie by hiding it in the literal truth.

Barack Obama said again tonight that he intends to half the deficit by the end of his first term, and this chart makes clear that this is the literal truth.
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Who is the badassiest of them all?  What team should you pick to beat out your Final Four Pool office mates?  Read on for all the answers, and prepare to be awed by my eerie prescience when the games begin tomorrow!

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The top half of badassity has risen, and those wanting in their awesomeness have fallen by the wayside.  Who will be the Badassiest Mascot of them all?  The Dance and the debate continues!

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It’s time once again for my favorite sporting event of the year, the NCAA Basketball Tournament.  And my favorite part of that (besides all the drinking and gambling) is making my picks based on the badassity of the mascots.
An explanation and history of this tradition can be found preceding last year’s badass picks here.  But [...]

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I give this movie 4.5 Reagans (out of 5).

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One of the things I always meant to do much earlier in this blog is ruminate about movies from a political philosophy standpoint.  In law school, a good friend of mine and I would often argue over whether a movie was conservative or not.  It was an incredibly useful way to refine my own philosophies, [...]

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Today, Obama signed the uber-porky federal budget, which is plenty bad enough at a time when the federal government needs more than ever to watch every penny.  But along with it, he included a signing statement declaring that he considered 5 of the provisions he was signing into law unconstitutional, and would not enforce them.
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Last week, UCONN’s men’s basketball coach Jim Calhoun put the press conference beatdown on a sniveling reporter who tried to speak truth to power by asking him about his big salary of $1.6 million per year in a time of vast budget deficits.  The coach pointed out that his efforts earn $12 million per year [...]

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A friend of mine sent me this:

These communist dictator Obama posters creep me out generally, but this one just made me smile.  Part of it was that Optimus Prime was such a hero to me as a kid, but there was something else about it.  I couldn’t quite put my finger on it until I [...]

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One of the things that frustrated me when I first moved to Nevada a few years ago was the seeming dearth of local political blogs – at least Conservative ones.  I say “seeming” because  it wasn’t that they weren’t there, it was more that I just had a hard time finding them.
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