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Taranto explains our national malaise:  we’re being governed by a gang of oiks. Read more

…as in "President Obama is just a post turtle. (photo by Eric Tank, on Flickr) Read more

It takes a kind of militant ignorance to indulge in utopian thoughts. Read more

…and it’s NOT an approved sampling technique. Update (29 June).  Apparently it happens in the private survey research business, too.  This is a big deal.  More detail here. Read more

You betcha! Read more

What a pernicious euphemism.  This story tells it all. Tip from Jay Nordlinger at NRO.  Thanks for the tip! Read more

Lake Superior State U has released launched its annual list of Banished Words; they bagged 15 of the lamest. Word "czars" at Lake Superior State University "unfriended" 15 words and phrases and declared them "shovel-ready" for inclusion on the university’s 35th annual List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Read more

Megan McArdle comments on the recent Sarah Palin-inspired head explosions in the media: …I find the whole schtick about how the media is just a bunch of elitist hooligans who are out to get her really grating. That’s why I really wish the media wouldn’t act like, well, a bunch of elitist hooligans who are Read more

Igon Value.  Delicious. Read more

Here’s a good example of compare and contrast. …you know that we used to make fun of “Dubya” nearly every day…parroting the same comedic bits we heard in our Democrat circles, where Bush is still, to this day, lampooned as a chimp, a bumbling idiot, and a poor, clumsy public speaker.…Well, we told you before Read more