This doesn’t surprise me at all. The brain remains the biggest mystery, I think.
Tea Party Racism
More commentary on Richard Cohen’s asininity:
within the conservative movement, we’re not unusual at all. Interracial adoption is so common within the Evangelical community, it’s triggered a bizarre backlash from the Left. In my own (quite conservative) church, adoption has transformed a historically-white congregation into a veritable rainbow coalition.
What about the response from the left? Well, we were audited (along with roughly 70 percent of other adoptive families) by the Obama administration’s radical IRS, and we’ve been subjected to vile comments online, hateful private messages, and crazy in-person statements from self-described progressives who believe that white Christians can’t be trusted to raise a black child.
When the Left calls us racists, as with most of their epithets, it’s projection.
Schadenfreudarama
Some might think that Jonah Goldberg is enjoying the Democrats’ melt down too much, but I think it’s just the right amount:
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, it took about five minutes for liberals to cast the chaos and confusion of the disaster as a searing indictment of not just the Bush administration but of conservatism itself. Whatever the merits of that argument (and there are not many), Katrina was at least a surprise. The October 1 deadline for Obamacare was set by Obama’s own administration years ago — and it caught them completely off guard. The president may now claim that he knew nothing, but he must have wondered why Henry Chao, Healthcare.gov’s chief project manager, set the bar of success at sea level last March: “Let’s just make sure it’s not a Third World experience.” At this point, it could only be more of a Third World experience if Healthcare.gov required enrollees to pay with chickens.
Go forth, and share in his joy.
Romney’s Uncanny Predictions
He knew what an Obama second term would look like.
“A Human Wrecking Ball”
I’m not a big fan of John McCain, but he’s got John Kerry’s number. Frightening to think how close he came to being president.
Senate Democrats
Some questions for them.
Every one of them up for reelection should lose their race.
The “Phony” IRS Scandal
The one question that should be asked at every hearing.
The Pork Problem
Eric Berger explains why human spaceflight is such a mess.
The “Cutting-Edge” SLS
These aerospace execs are living in some kind of alternate reality. Or at least pretending to, to placate the Congressional porkers.
Civil Forfeiture
It’s one of the most gross injustices allowed in our legal system, but a federal case may make it easier to defend against it. As Glenn says, there should be punishment of officials who engage in this legalized thievery.
[Update in the afternoon]
Here’s a good piece on the subject in The Economist.