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OK, show of hands: Who's shocked?

Democrats say they want to raise as much as $1 trillion in new revenues through tax reform later this year to balance Republican demands to slash mandatory spending.

How dare she keep a gun in the same house with her kids! Whatever was this woman thinking of?

How dare she keep a gun in the same house with her kids! Whatever was this woman thinking of?

The editors of The Journal Gazette like to say they have a "progressive" editorial page, which is an apt description since, among other things, they've seldom met a tax increase or government program they didn't like. So I was amazed -- shocked and amazed, I tell you! -- to see this column today from Editorial Page Editor Tracy Warner:

Did we just go through the looking glass?

A federal judge on Wednesday rejected The New York Times' bid to force the U.S. government to disclose more information about its targeted killing of people it believes have ties to terrorism, including American citizens.

It's become pretty clear that envy is the only political philosophy President Obama ever had and class warfare the only policy he ever pursued:

Technology just keeps bring us cooler and cooler toys:

I neglected to say anything on the passing of Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, someone I admired very much. If I had posted last week, it probably would have been overly sympathetic, the view of a former soldier of another soldier who did it longer and much better. This, I think, is a more balanced and accurate look at the general. On his role in the Gulf War:

Here's something you can take off your worry list that you probably weren't paying attention to anyway:

Now, this is scary:

AS the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American system of government is broken. But almost no one blames the culprit: our insistence on obedience to the Constitution, with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions.

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