As in, he’s on fire, this time at American Spectator. Rod Dreher and other “choirboys of niceness,” as RSM calls them, have been busy wringing their hands over what they think is an overly combative face of conservatives, which they think will alienate fence-sitters. RSM reminds them:

When a guy begins a fight by slamming a barstool into the back of your head, the Marquis of Queensberry rules do not apply. If you respond by ripping open his carotid artery with the jagged edge of a broken beer bottle, whose fault is that? (“He needed killing,” as Texans like to say.)

I noted the other day that RSM had been writing a steady stream of posts on this topic. He has helpfully aggregated them in his post about his AmSpec piece.