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TrogloPundit’s Bloggoversary

Through shameless blog-whoring and relentless application of Rule 5, the Trog has scored more than 300,000 hits in his first 364 days of blogging. It’s not too late to throw him 700,000 hits today, is it?

Killer Socialist Professor Update

Harvard-educated murderer Amy Bishop displayed her enlightened, sophisticated academic temperament: In March, 2002, Bishop walked into an International House of Pancakes in Peabody with her family, asked for a booster seat for one of her children, and learned the last seat had gone to another mother. Bishop, according to a police report, strode over to […]

The Protocols of the Elders of CTHULHU X. External Appearances

by Smitty (INTRODUCTION) At first it appeared a table, that long, rectangular, gunmetal surface dominating the space. The softness of the speaker’s voice was low enough that the breathing of three or four attendees, probably getting ready for medication of some sort, was noticeable. Thus, a distant moaning from outside of the room, as of […]

It’s CPAC Time!

From my column today in the American Spectator: Lisa De Pasquale was preparing Tuesday morning to depart her office in Northern Virginia to set up operations at Washington’s Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, and she wasn’t the only one planning such a trip. Across the country, thousands of conservative activists are making their way to the […]

David Brooks Advocates the Total Wussification of American Men

Revenge of the wuss: The gap between the male and female unemployment rates has reached its highest level since the government began keeping such records. . . . [L]ast November nearly a fifth of all men between 25 and 54 did not have jobs, the highest figure since the labor bureau began counting in 1948. […]

The Protocols of the Elders of CTHULHU: IX. Re-education

by Smitty (INTRODUCTION) Retainers whisked the dozen to a long, narrow meeting room with a glass side facing Lake Totenkopf with a low table. The squid in the fish bowl surveyed the room, making thoughtful rippling motions. No one wanted to pay attention to it, so they sat on their various torture chairs and paid […]

Stimulus Jobs: ‘Saved or Created’ or Imagined?

We’re paying them to pretend they’re creating jobs: Though unemployment is at 9.7 percent, and just six percent of Americans think the government has created jobs, President Barack Obama will hold a White House reception on Wednesday to mark the one-year anniversary of signing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the economic […]

Is Fabius Maximus a Congressman?

by Smitty Fabius Maximus has always been a blog to trigger thought. I suspect it’s a gang blog, with a group of academics driving the posting. The blog has been an equal opportunity offender, handing out well-researched drubbings in every direction. This post raises a speculation about the author, emphasis mine: So the recovery must […]

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