So what's your favorite broken resolution or the resolution you kept and are most proud of?

As everyone knows,Republican Steve Scalise may have spoken to a group of white nationalists over a decade agoI say may because it looks like he didn't actually attend the conference, despite the pillorying he has undergone in the media.

Whether GOP leadership knew of the weakness of the report or not, the fact that Boehner et. al did not throw Scalise to the wolves is refreshing.

Normally in this sort of situation, the word "racism" is thrown around and a near religious ritual ensues. Fellow Republicans denounce the potential offender and begin ritual self-flagellation. More often than not, the potential offender is let to die on the ice flow.

Perhaps victory has emboldened our leadership. Perhaps they recognize that the calls of racism, having been so overused in the past, have lost their sting.

What needs to happen now is the punch back.

Scalise spoke stupidly once?

Point out thatAl Sharpton - the man who's calls of "white interloper" got a man killed - has been to the White House 61 times under President Obama's reign.

Point out that the"Democratic Conscience of the Senate"- Robert Byrd - was actually in the Klan.

Point out that the"Democratic Lion of the Senate" - Ted Kennedy - let a woman drown.

Point out thatCharles Rangel is still serving despite his tax evasion.

In other words, when asked about Scalise, pull an Obama and refuse to answer the mediua's question.

Answer the basic GOP question: What the hell are these Democrats doing?

Check out my new piece in PJ Lifestyles regarding how Al Sharpton is ruining any chance at reforming police conduct.

I just got my first paying gig, an article published on PJ Lifestyles through PJ Media. I looked at the Sony surrendering to the hackers and its impact on the media we'll see in the future.

Check out this article and plenty of other fine pieces at PJ Lifestyles.

Watching the most recent episode of the Walking Dead, "Slabtown," and the following episode of Talking Dead, made me think of the political messaging of the show, something remarkable as the show is fairly apolitical. However, the fallen police officer Dawn trying to justify her misrule to Beth in terms that are almost explicitly communist. Then, in the discussion afterwards, John Barrowman of Arrow, first tried to tie the speech to Sarah Palin and then justified the notion that in this world, slavery would be a reasonable response. His Palin comment was deeply ironic, since the closest Dawn came to Palin was her use of a rough and ready death panel.

So I've given this show a decent shot. But - SPOILER ALERT - it suffers from the same conceit as the original Star Trek. In what rational world does the captain go on away missions? It ends badly.

So we have John Brennan admitting that his CIA spied on the Senate staff charged with investigating the agency. I may have my misgivings with the reason for the investigation - can we end the gnashing of teeth over whether we didn't rub Khalid Sheikh Muhammed's feet enough when asking him questions about his plans to slaughter Americans? - but the point remains, we can't have intelligence agencies spying on our elected officials.

And the ending gives you a cliffhanger of the type that will demand viewership when the next season rolls around.

So California's death penalty is unconstitutional, according to a federal judge.

The reasoning behind this ruling is that the process is slow and inconsistently applies. The reason for this is, of course, every time we try to kill a killer, lawsuits get filed.

So essentially, the liberal legal equivalent of guerrilla fighters get there way simply by trying to get their way. They are like the man who killed his parents and then plead for mercy as orphans. Of course, in their world, that man would never face the death penalty.

What are we to learn from this?

Lawfare is effective. If you make a policy so damned expensive and time consuming, the other side may very well blink. Conservatives need to adopt this strategy.

I think we have, in some part, seen it with the Hobby Lobby and other pending Obamacare cases. In California, we also see strategic litigation being used to attack Jerry Brown's bullet train boondoggle.

However, the possibility for real havoc is out there. In California, we lost the Proposition 8 traditional marriage fight because our elected leaders went on strike and refused to obey the law.

Why not the same thing for conservative states, where conservative groups file suit against regulations we don't like and Republican officeholders surrender.

It works on the Federal level as well. Obama refused to defend DOMA? Okay. Let's have some group sue to shut down the Department of Education or the EPA once we get a Republican in the White House.

We need to call 911. E.J. Dionne just had a column that mentioned Glenn Beck and Christians with a minimum of sneering. I believe his head must have exploded