Author Archives: Bok
House Divided of the Living Dead
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus called for a rebrand of the Republican party. He wants to shed its image of “stuffy old men”. The Republicans called it an autopsy report.
Here’s Jonah Goldberg on the Republican rise of libertarians like Rand Paul and the fusion of conservative and libertarian thinking.
Pop Tart Politics
By now you’ve heard of the mouth modified assault pop tart caper. A seven year old Maryland boy was suspended from school for gnawing a pop tart into the shape of a gun.
You can laugh but even an unloaded pop tart is more dangerous than you think.
Says Mark Steyn, “You’re doomed, America, You’re done for. No society can survive this level of stupidity.”
As I write this, news comes in of T.J. Lane, a high schooler with a real gun who killed real people in Chardon, Ohio a year ago. He just received three life sentences without parole. In court he expressed his remorse with a smirk while wearing a t-shirt emblazoned “killer” in hand lettering. He turned to the members of his victims’ families and told them he masturbated to the memory and gave them the finger.
I think his prison term will be short.
Those Whacky Puritans
While the Mayor and Michelle go Carrie Nation on the sugar industry, the rest of us are bailing it out with price supports. Got the idea for this one from this Steve Chapman column.
New Pope Francis
Father Bergoglio paid his hotel bill and carried his bags off to his job as new Pope Francis. The first Jesuit pope, and first pope from the Americas, replaces the first pope to retire in over 600 years. Read all about it.
Sequester Break
The White House only has one president, one press secretary, and one dog minder – at a hundred and two grand a year. You’d think they could could make do with one calligrapher. But no, they have three.
Here’s a Mark Steyn piece on what a bargain the British Royal family is compared to our White House royalty.
