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I have been writing for years about the Conservative Mood Swing -- a syndrome whereby conservatives lurch between triumphalism and victimhoo...

Kanye West is jackassing like a motherfucker -- telling the world 400 years of black slavery was a choice , then issuing the inevitable of c...

No, I didn't watch it. The Leader's alleged charms, which so enamor the yokels, have always been lost on me; were I paid like the gl...

It's been nice to take a break from the Homeland and not have the nonsense I usually look at in front of my eyes. But I made the mistak...

[The Sutherland Springs shooting required that I rewrite, as we say in the journalism business, my Village Voice column last night. But a ...

Ed Gillespie's running a tight Virginia Governor race on a Yee-Haw-The-South's-Gonna-Do-It-Again platform and, as you can see below...

I see a lot of jibber-jabber on Twitter to the effect that Steve Bannon's exit will activate some sort of big change. Don't you beli...

Damn thing's been in my head for days. Here, you have it. •  I know New Yorker profiles are not endorsements, quite, but I could b...

The end of O'Reilly's TV show means nearly nothing to me. Big-ticket rightwing rageclowns like him are like blockbuster movies and r...

Today at National Review it was Ben Shapiro 's turn (perhaps he lost a bet) to bitch about the removal of Confederate icons from campus...

I thought the only lonely place was on the moon. •  You know it's trouble from the hed and dek: Why This Twitter Purge Is Okay w...

... about Trump's claim that, birther-wise, it was Hillary all along , and the brethren's rush to go "that's right, boss, I...

There are different kinds of conservative reactions to the hilarious phenomenon of Republican frontrunner Donald Trump. There are lofty denu...

Politico reports that Jon Stewart visited the White House twice in the Obama era. To you and me and other ordinary citizens, no big; but to...

Don't drink all the King v. Burwell tears, you'll get a stomach ache. However, please enjoy responsibly  Wayne Root from Glenn Bec...

Donald Trump threw his hairpiece in the ring today, and most people reacted with the solemnity the event demanded . Even Republicans seem to...

Some online conservatives, who haven't had proper media training,  express their feelings thus : The better-trained ones mostly settl...

Big claim in this headline by Andrew Klavan : There’s Something Happening Here: Conservatives Are Catching On to the Culture! That would ...