The Czar is still surprised to see non-Democratic voters (not necessarily Republicans, per se) on social media calling for a third party. Many times has the Czar explained that third parties serve only one purpose: getting the other party elected … Continue reading →
Vladimir Putin was kind enough to pose shirtless, with a rifle for this installation of ‘Puter’s totally not homoerotic Male Bag. Note, all references to “heavily armed Russians” in Ukraine actually refer to shirtless Vladimir Putin taking Crimea with only … Continue reading →
This is what many of you come across as on Twitter. Smart choice, because people are totally way more convinced at the merits of your argument when you’re yelling at and belittling them. ‘Puter got in a bit of a … Continue reading →
So it breaks down like this. The GOP, we are reassured by the media, is perilously close to splitting in two. Actually, this is ridiculously far from the truth, but there is a comment we can make about that. In … Continue reading →
Q. What do you call a liberal who can do math? A. An ex-liberal. This old saw is still true for some very basic reasons: if the country pulls in x revenue, and spends 2x on programs, pretty soon you … Continue reading →
If liberals could stomach our site for more than a few seconds of their otherwise carnival attention span, they might ask when we will turn our unpleasant gaze toward the Right. Indeed, we do quite often. In fact, not only … Continue reading →
Yes, Tea Party. If only we’d elected RonPaul, none of this ever would’ve happened.It’s more true that Tea Party Glorious andIneffective Kamikaze Plan Number One wasa far more proximate cause to our recent drubbing than failure to elect RAWN PAWL! … Continue reading →
Mitch used to write in from time to time, and thank goodness he’s still out there. Yesterday, the Czar had to sum up the evolution from the Whigs to the 1860 Republican Party in a half-sentence. Not surprisingly, Mitch thought … Continue reading →
If the Czar were a Tea Party—and trust us, he would show up with Irish whiskey and call it tea—he would be pretty eager to get up in the morning right about now. This IRS scandal is an untapped gold … Continue reading →
Stanley Kurtz over at the NRO Corner has an interesting thought: is the Left producing its own Tea Party? The ultimatum delivered last week by California billionaire Tom Steyer to Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate, Rep. Steve Lynch–disavow your support for … Continue reading →
Only four months after the election, and the suggestions to the GOP on how to regroup and reorganize have recently gotten very good. And consistent: we talked about them here already, but the same ideas keep popping up again and … Continue reading →
The Czar is running behind here. First, thanks to EC who spotted a typo (but missed several others) in an essay that was subsequently corrected. Second, RA writes in: Excellent analysis on the GOP master tactitians. Might I add that … Continue reading →
These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and … Continue reading →
The Czar will admit when he is wrong, and he was sure wrong to have predicted Rob Portman as Romney’s eventual running mate. But the Czar had that tip on good authority, and now knows that his authorities are not … Continue reading →
A couple of recent essays and editorials caught the Czar’s eye, and there is a strange theme to them: Gingrich is proof the Tea Party is dead. Long live the Tea Party, suckas. Don’t you media types wish. B-b-b-but Czar, … Continue reading →
Over at Big Government, Stacy Swimp argues that the Tea Party is the 21st Century Civil Rights Movement. This is a bit of a stretch. The Civil Rights Movement has a long, unbroken history of abolitionist traditions, and risked literal … Continue reading →
Uncle Jay shares this thought: When I get emails from my Left Coast “friends” (and I use that term very loosely) I have to wonder what they are smoking, and what idiots like Andrew Sullivan are imbibing. If you ask … Continue reading →
‘Puter knows he’s going to get pilloried, but he’s going to say it again. Ron Paul is bat-shit crazy. One cannot hold the positions Ron Paul does and be seriously considered to lead our country. ‘Puter freely admits that he … Continue reading →
The Czar watched the debate this evening with millions of other Americans (at least until Top Gear came on, which to be frank, was one of the funniest episodes they have ever done). Overall, there was not much more on … Continue reading →
The Царица, as most of you know, is a school teacher. Not surprisingly, many of her friends are as well. Last Sunday, we were at a birthday party for one such teacher’s little daughter, R. The mother asked the Царица … Continue reading →
Hello, readers. Do you remember a recent post in which the Czar predicted that the Tea Party seems to be implementing a new phase of attack? This one, we thought, would be aimed at Republicans, not Democrats, and that the … Continue reading →
The Czar wonders if he is seeing a third phase in the Tea Party movement. The first phase, of course, was to be recognized. And that they were. From a loose collection of small protests called the TEA Party to … Continue reading →
Go ahead and read the Volgi’s posts today. Still willing to read more? Check out a superbly done piece by Christian Hartsock on five things the conservatives have got to stop doing because, frankly, they fuel MSM fires and make … Continue reading →
…here’s Fred Siegel in City Journal. What Zernike doesn’t grasp is the class dynamics of the Tea Parties—a revolt in the name of self-government against the pretensions and failures of the best and the brightest. The Tea Partiers believe that … Continue reading →
This jives perfectly with what the Mandarin and the Czar were discussing at lunch this week. Pat Sajak nails our mutual opinion perfectly: the GOP had better realize they will not be given a second chance…this is their second chance, … Continue reading →
What an election. And out come the bad moves. Sure, every party makes mistakes during an election: openly false comments are made and disproved just as quickly. Third parties put out advertisements with patently wrong accusations. Words are twisted in … Continue reading →
There is a great article by Connie Hair regarding the One Nation Rally held this weekend in Washington D.C. Despite the free buses, the demands from union leadership that their members attend – or else – and the admonitions from … Continue reading →
Wow. This is another landmine for the Left. Read this whole bit. All right, so readers outside of Chicago know that Glenn Beck and friends did a private show in the Chicago area as a fundraiser for local GOP candidates. … Continue reading →
And do they ever. Well, some of them anyway. Here is a pull quote from Telegraph.co.uk, which has a stunningly insightful article on why the Tea Party is getting things done, all denials by the Democrats and old guard Republicans … Continue reading →
And so the Czar was perusing The Chicago Sun-Times this morning over his traditional 13th-Century breakfast of моглашкы with a side of пошмацки, and was entertained to see two of the Times’ six remaining openly bleeding-heart liberal columnists each having … Continue reading →
Doesn’t 2007 seem like it was a decade ago, politically? A Republican president was being trashed by a cabal of Democrats, leftist journalists and Hollywood and university professors. A Democratic Congress was spending money stupidly, and the GOP was simply … Continue reading →
Borepatch has a couple of posts worth reading. Therein, he reviews basic Marxist doctrine and compares it today. If you remember All Things Capital, the much shorter movie version of the book, you will recall Marx’s prediction that when all … Continue reading →
…reports Rich “Rico Suave“ Lowry. No, not in that way. Very much worth reading. In extremis, Democrats and liberal commentators have dragged the debate over the tea party into the well-worn rut of elite condescension to the bourgeois, a term … Continue reading →
The Czar has received a fair amount of mail supporting his supposition that liberals need to identify with a group or follow someone who is in charge of a group. It is, of course, basic identity politics. And it bears … Continue reading →
Your Mandarin is pleased to report that one of the most iconic films of the 1980’s is being remade. And what film would that be you may ask. Go ahead, ask me. Oh, hell I can’t wait all day, I’ll … Continue reading →
So, you’re going to be infiltrated by agents provocateurs of the Left. Let me suggest one strategy that might be effective. If anyone starts up with some sort of bigoted crap, kick his ass. You can’t be too careful. (Or … Continue reading →
Confucius* says, I don’t want to blow your mind, cats and kittens, but you know the story the Czar is commenting on, where some liberal Democrats walked through a crowd of Tea Partiers and came out claiming they’d been spat … Continue reading →
The reason both wings of American liberalism — congressional and mainstream media — were so surprised at the force of anti-Democratic sentiment is that they’d spent Obama’s first year either ignoring or disdaining the clear early signs of resistance: the … Continue reading →
The first Gormogon collaborator to point out that the Freemasons had slipped the Czar a ringer of a picture was noted hippiephobe Gullyborg over at Resistance Is Futile!. Visit his blog and drop him a note of thanks. Also, Lane … Continue reading →
Turns out we screwed up. The picture the Czar found turns out to be of a Promise Keepers’ rally a decade ago. Click here for a version with the site of the missing National Museum of the American Indian circled. … Continue reading →
The big 9/12 protest certainly attracted a ton of people. How many seems to be an open question. The Washington Post reported “tens of thousands,” so a conservative might reasonably expect there to have been at least a hundred thousand. … Continue reading →
Tea Party organizers are planning anti-ObamaCare rallies all across the country, evidently one in every congressional district this Saturday. Rats, and the Czar will be convalescing in a heated pool on Saturday. But liberals should know this, because they won’t … Continue reading →
Your Mandarin remembers an old saying that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that is really true than Nancy Pelosi should be smiling from ear to ear. Rather she is very vexed that the “evil and vast” right-wing … Continue reading →
Funny, but the last time someone tried to put a tax on tea it set off a slight public disturbance, and by that I mean the Boston Tea Party and eventually the American Revolution. Spend more than you have and … Continue reading →
