U.S. Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina (h/t: Tabitha Hale) notes that “only in America” can you have the privilege to run for the U.S. Senate:

She’s right, you know.

Ann Coulter thinks the criminal-minded ACORNies in the Brooklyn video are guilty of criminal conspiracy. I’m not so sure. I don’t recall the ACORNies conspiring with each other on the tape, only attempting to conspire with two people they thought were a pimp and a prostitute but who actually weren’t. Can you have a conspiracy of one?

As TGirsch has previously noted, my caustic brand of conservatism seems to have a liberalizing effect on whatever state I happen to occupy at any given time. Republicans did OK in California in 1988, when I was a Democrat, but once I left the fold in 1990 it was all downhill from there. In 1992, when I ran for office in Cali, we ended up electing Thelma and Louise to the Senate. The Republicans did great in 1994, of course, but not so well in Illinois, where I resided at the time. By 1996 I was back in Cali, which finally morphed from what was once Reagan Country into the bluest state in the nation.

The upside is that the Xrlq effect, however unfortunate, is not permanent. Back in Cali and Illinois, Democrat Senate seats are now vulnerable. And Virginia, much to the chagrin of the Brady Center to prevent Lawful Handgun Ownership, is now on the brink of legalizing driving sober on roads where other people might be drunk carrying a concealed weapon sober in locations where other people might consume alcohol. Funny-money quote:

The debate was concluded by Sen. Mary Margaret Whipple (D). “As a final comment, let me just say this. I’ve really never been afraid for my life at the Red Lobster,” she said.

Of course not. Who’s afraid of a lobster? A green one, maybe, but a red one? Never. It’s not as though the place were called “Luby’s” or anything.

Once again, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 not to decimate the Bill of Rights. Thank goodness for small favors. Last time, the Douche in Chief lied an claimed to have supported the decision all along. This time, he’s doubling down and asking Congress to either repeal the First Amendment or simply ignore it, it’s not clear which.

But … he’s a good man, and heaven forbid anyone hope he fails.

UPDATE: Meanwhile, Chuck Schumer calls for Congressional hearings on the separation of powers, and the ACLU re-thinks its support of the one American civil liberty this union has mostly supported in the past. ‘Cuz allowing Nazis to march in Skokie is one thing, and allowing the Obamessiah’s scapegoats to talk back to The One is another.

Interesting ad, time to give Domino’s another try? Thank Allah and Anwyn for the link, along with Jonah, for a nice political parallel to the G.O.P.:

The appeal of the campaign should be obvious: honesty. Domino’s admits they lost their way, and they want a second chance. They’re confronting the criticism head-on rather than denying it.

Obviously, the analogy to the GOP isn’t perfect. For example, last I checked, Domino’s didn’t get bogged down in an unpopular war.

Nor did Papa John’s, Pizza Hut,^* Little Caesar, Hungry Howie’s, or anyone else in that biz, but I digress.

But the GOP’s troubles over the last decade have a lot to do with the fact that Americans didn’t stop liking what the Republican party is supposed to deliver. They stopped liking what the GOP actually delivered.

As one who still likes pizza (just not the craptastic excuse for pizza Domino’s has churned out over the years) and conservative positions (just not the crapweasel positions put out by “compassionate” ones), here’s hoping both Domino’s and the G.O.P. succeed not only in marketing what they were supposed to deliver, but actually delivering it this time.

^*Just for the record, I find Pizza Hut’s fare every bit as inedible as anything I’ve had from Domino’s, and figure Howie must really be hungry if he’s willing to eat his own product. However, I’m confining these comments to a footnote, as “but the other guy churns out crap, too!” works no better in the corporate world than “We suck, but the Democrats suck more” does in the political. Granted, its close cousin, “the other guy sucks, and we’ve been out of power so long that y’all have all forgotten how much worse we suck than they do” did seem to work exceedingly well in ‘06 and ‘08, but I don’t think we can re-take the House with that strategy in ‘10.

UPDATE: Robb gives the thumbs up … to Domino’s, at least.

Media, schmedia. You know we’re in good shape when even the rock band who once sang this:

Handguns are made for killing
They ain’t no good for nothing else
And if you like to drink your whiskey
You might even shoot yourself
So why don’t we dump them people
To the bottom of the sea
Before some ole fool come around here
Wanna shoot either you or me

Now sings this:

Oh, there was a time we ain’t forgot
You could rest all night with the doors unlocked
But there ain’t nobody safe no more
So you say your prayers and you thank the Lord
For that peace-maker in the dresser drawer.

Amen. I like to think that Ronnie himself would have come around if he’d lived another 30+ years, but if Johnnie has Ronnie spinning in his grave, so be it.

UPDATE: While we win, they whine.

Lou Dobbs will not be the next President of the United States of America. You heard it here first.

Whenever you hear the H-word, check twice, and a third time. Usually it’s some liberal screaming “hypocrisy” whenever a conservative proves to be human on an issue where liberals and conservatives generally agree (and where liberals are every bit as prone to failure as conservatives, but somehow their hypocrisy doesn’t count). When the right plays the H-card, we generally at least try to limit it to issues where the left and right disagree, e.g., when anti-gun zealots like Carl Rowan or Roland Burris end up owning the same guns they say no one else should be allowed to have.

Unfortunately, “try” does not always equal “succeed.” Insty links to a forum alleging that “anti-gun” State Senator R.C. Soles had shot an intruder in self-defense. What a hypocrite! Maybe, if by “hypocrite” you mean “guy whose record on guns is ‘not excellent’” according to NC’s leading gun group (whom Insty pooh-poohs as “these folks”), even if he is good enough to warrant an A rating by the NRA.

Move along, people. There’s nothing to see here.

Poland is enacting a new law providing mandatory castration of anyone convicted of raping children under the age of 15, unless the rapist was a really famous guy and the rape occurred nowhere near Poland.. Or something like that. There’s a bad Polack joke in there somewhere…

But for some reason, President Gotti won’t investigate.