— As opposed to her dad, who brought ‘old’ and ‘fail.’ Mavericky! (h/t John)

Do.

Not the best way to start off your week: Economic prospects continue to grow gloomier as the Commerce Department on Friday revised the second-quarter growth rate substantially downward from the initial estimate of 2.4 percent to a mere 1.6 percent. Just to stay on an even keel in terms of job creation, the growth rate needs to be at least 3 percent. It has averaged only 2.9 percent for the

David Thompson: But rejecting “liberal guilt,” as manifest all but daily in the pages of the Guardian, doesn’t require an indifference to, or denial of, real injustice; merely a dislike of pretension and dishonesty, and a wariness of guilt being distorted into a pantomime and fetish –- in which rhetorical self-harm is an assertion of superiority. Well, you have to admit, David, that nothing feels quite so good as showing

That sound you just heard was nishi’s head being, er, unpacked. Whoops! (thanks to Darleen)

Reuters: The Muslim center planned near the site of the World Trade Center attack could qualify for tax-free financing, a spokesman for City Comptroller John Liu said on Friday, and Liu is willing to consider approving the public subsidy. […] The mosque’s backers hope to raise a total of $70 million in tax-exempt debt to build the center, according to the New York Times. Tax laws allow such funding for

Seems appropriate today…

The environmentalist agenda as a kind of aristocratic paternalism at odds with growth, prosperity, and “progress”? You don’t say! Fred Siegel, City Journal: Like the Tory Radicals, today’s liberal gentry see the untamed middle classes as the true enemy. “Environmentalism offered the extraordinary opportunity to combine the qualities of virtue and selfishness,” wrote William Tucker in a groundbreaking 1977 Harper’s article on the opposition to construction of the Storm King

What say you all?