Robert Romano, Americans for Limited Government: […] Senate Republicans would also do well to remember, and never forget, that the tea parties were born because of the bailouts and government takeovers in the first place. That the GOP’s political misfortunes of 2008 can largely be attributed to their embracing the Wall Street bailout-takeover regime that Senate Democrats now seek to institutionalize permanently. Public outrage over the bailouts and takeovers, and

I mean, who does it think it is, Texas? From FOXNews, “Arizona Legislature Passes Bill to Curb ‘Chauvanism’ in Ethnic Studies Programs”: After making national headlines for a new law on illegal immigrants, the Arizona Legislature passed a bill Thursday that would ban ethnic studies programs in the state that critics say currently advocate separatism and racial preferences. The bill, which passed 32-26 in the state House, had been approved

From the Hill: A plan by Senate Democratic leaders to reform the nation’s immigration laws ran into strong opposition from civil liberties defenders before lawmakers even unveiled it Thursday. Democratic leaders have proposed requiring every worker in the nation to carry a national identification card with biometric information, such as a fingerprint, within the next six years, according to a draft of the measure. […] The national ID program would

Everything seems to be fixed now. Thanks to pixy. Also, I have my suspicions about who the culprit may be, his having had a demonstrable history of such behavior. Gaze into his eyes… No worries. What goes around, etc.

Q: What do you call a socialist dictator’s Tweets? A: Tweets. What, you think we’re about to change the word just for that douche?

Darleen earlier raised the issue of the potential for abuses in Arizona’s (locally popular) border enforcement law, and Reason’s Steve Chapman expands on concerns from a libertarian perspective: The worst-case scenario is that Hispanics will face possible police harassment anytime they venture out of the house. Not to worry, says Kris Kobach, a law professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City who helped draft the text. He told The Washington

Were I compelled to spend eternity pushing a large stone up a hill — only to have it roll back down every time before I could get it quite to the top — I think I’d spend less time reading Camus and more time working on my invention. Which I’d tentatively take to calling “giant-ass slingshot for propelling really large rolling stones all the way to the top of some

There’s nothing more embarrassing to pragmatic “conservative” elites than when the bitterclinger “fringe” goes around calling Obama a “socialist” or “communist”. Simply gauche, such overstatements are — not to mention unhelpful: Obama loves the American ideal just as much as you or I, the argument goes, and to pretend otherwise is to distract from the more important work of finding a common ground upon which to govern. He is a