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While you're ringing in the new year with champagne and revelry, conservatives are hard at work in  their basement warrens, fashioning a...

Batocchio, bless him, has done the usual bang-up job with the annual Jon Swift Memorial Roundup  of top blog posts by your favorite fellow t...

Victor Davis Hanson 's on his plinth again, crying "Vanitas!" while the dry ice swirls: Obama once had mused that he wished ...

We got another Go-Galt guy, this one named Will Spencer , who tells us that "clearly, 'Going Galt' does not mean the same thin...

Most of you have seen it, but if you haven't, this is the real thing: All honor to  Mr. Magoo's   Christmas Carol -- the recent ...

It is something to see Ole Perfesser Instapundit go for plausible de niability: I DIDN’T SEE THE PRESS CONFERENCE, but reader Theo X. Rojo...

ANNALS OF THE CULTURE WARS. Culture warriors are having a hard time churning up some actual culture of their own. Take a look at Liberty Is...

FIGHTING WORDS. Before approving the protest of Erik Loomis' treatment , I went back to my Gabby Giffords rightbloggers column to see...

FROM THEIR WARM, STICKY HANDS. I trawl other blogs' comments sections  but rarely, and almost never to approve. Others are less selecti...

NEW ON THE BLOGROLL. My old friend Joe Mackin had this idea: Write about stuff -- yeah I know, like everyone else -- but limit yourself to ...

GO AHEAD, TRY IT THAT WAY. I'm always eager to learn what it is we liberals are really up to when we pretend to be interested in, say, p...

NEW VOICE COLUMN UP , about the brethren's reaction to Newtown and how guns don't kill people, [fill in the blank] kills people.

CULTURE COPS, OUTREACH DIVISION. Ole Perfesser Glenn Reynolds offers his services as culture-war consultant to the GOP: Which is why I t...

WELL, YOU TRIED, PART II. Ace of Spades, whom we discovered trying to engage the "culture" yesterday , is still at it : He read a...

WELL, YOU TRIED. Hey guess what -- Ace of Spades is getting into the conservative-culture thing! A film is usually about something a litt...

MISTER, I MET A MAN ONCE. At National Review , David French tells us how Big Gummint done in his ole buddy Rob (not his real name) in Tenne...

THUMBS DOWN. I hate to get on Glenn Greenwald's bad side but his claim that he isn't really reviewing-without-having-seen  Zero Dar...

CLOSET CASE. Ace of Spades : Conservatives who live in liberal areas, or move in liberal circles, on the other hand, tend to either be pr...

THE TRUTH REVEALED! You heard that Obama has to take the Second Inaugural Oath on January 20, but it's Sunday this year so he's doi...

NEW VOICE COLUMN UP , about the GOP's new attitudes toward John Boehner and Jim DeMint. Boehner, formerly their enforcer, is now a horr...

A LITTLE GOOD NEWS. At Zero Hedge we hear from Brandon Martin , who believes the Republicans and the Democrats are colluding to make Americ...

STILL ON MOOCHER PATROL. Remember when Virginia wanted to test its welfare recipients for drugs , then found out it would be an outrageous ...

GOIN' UP THE COUNTRY. I am indebted to Travis Gettys for pointing this out to me, and wondering how I missed it: a  wingnut separatist...

NEW VOICE COLUMN UP , about the news that the U.S. birth rate is way down and how rightbloggers have reacted to it. Short version: This is...

HERE COMES A REGULAR. Having been interested in conservatives who appear to have been driven mad by the election, I haven't spent enoug...

A PLEASANT SURPRISE. Here's a further development on the "Alinsky! I'll show you Alinsky" theme, taken up by conservative...

ANOTHER DAY IN BIZARRO WORLD. At the Wall Street Journal , James Taranto tells us several ways in which black people are oppressing white ...

DA, DA. WE LAUGH! At American Thinker, Thomas Lifson : Two of the most interesting stars in the world of conservative broadcasting have ne...

BRINGING A KNIFE TO A CULTURE WAR. Conservatives of the what-went-wrong school are still working the culture angle. While some are predicti...

NEW VOICE COLUMN UP , about the miserable rightblogger Thanksgiving. Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of guys. Among the outta...

KISS OF DEATH.   David Brooks tells us about the "young writers and bloggers" whom he believes will rescue conservatism from its ...

THE DEAD-ENDERS. Last weekend, as dutifully reported by Eliana Johnson of National Review, Congressnut Allen West was all defiance , telli...

NEW VOICE COLUMN UP , about the new Chick-fil-A, Papa John's. Rightbloggers' worship of asshole CEOs who brag about screwing their...

CONSERVATIVE OUTREACH CONTINUES. The "Ladyparts! Huh! We'll show you ladyparts" campaign for women's votes spreads to th...

WHEN ALL YOU HAVE IS A CULTURE WAR, EVERYTHING LOOKS LIKE A REVOLVER. More of that culture-war guff I mentioned in my post-election column ...