How to go after Obama, the non-establishment unhelpful way that Senator McCain was careful to avoid (thus losing by not as much as he otherwise might have, which is, of course, something to celebrate and build upon): Ohio has also taken firm action under the leadership of Republican ex-congressman and new Gov. John Kasich. As part of an immense, multifaceted reform and cutting process to address the state’s $8 billion

Like a would-be dandy spooned tapioca-like into some ridiculous smoking jacket — his moist and opaque skin, aided by gravity, seemingly intent on escaping the structural prison of skull and musculature by pooling itself around the jowls in a jumble of veiny fat folds — James Wolcott once mused on the fate of those he believes have come to answer for Nature’s wrath. Wrote Sir James: I root for hurricanes.

The Washington Examiner: The problem now for Democrats is that, though both presidents took office with a weak economy, Reagan’s pro-growth policies worked, while Obama’s big government agenda has failed miserably. The numbers tell the story. The Commerce Department reported yesterday that the U.S. economy grew at an anemic 1.8 percent rate during the first quarter of 2011, more evidence that the Obama recovery has been tepid, at best. At

Rick Manning, ALG: While Donald Trump has been running around Hawaii looking for Obama’s birth certificate, Obama’s unconfirmed appointee to the NLRB has been having his way in launching an official federal government jihad in support of Obama’s big labor supporters, who don’t care where he was born. The brains behind the NLRB attack on the American way of life, is a formerly obscure lawyer named Craig Becker. Becker’s views

1. Carolina: Cam Newton. A face to put with the franchise, whose previous face was a bug-eyed Jimmy Clausen running for his life from a number of large, angry black men. 2. Denver: Von Miller. Though he seems to me a natural for the 3-4, John Fox likes to use his SAM linebackers to rush the QB, and Miller is one of the best (if not THE best) athletes in

A brief pictorial. Meh. Let them eat cake! drive a hybrid! know that the filthy oil speculators and Big Food are out to profit off their misery! But don’t worry. Obama (and Bill O’Reilly) are looking out for you, the folks. And the guilty will be singled out and publicly chastised so you know just where to point those pitchforks…

“Union Battles: A Window for Parental Choice”: recent data shows that taxpayers living in states with elevated percentages of unionized government workers (60 percent or more) are burdened with more than twice the per capita debt of taxpayers living in states with lower percentages of unionized government workers (40 percent or less). In addition to resounding union defeats in Ohio and Wisconsin – legislation has been introduced in Florida that

— does this mean I shouldn’t get too excited about today’s NFL draft, then? Most importantly, will the New World Order will make my ass look fat? (thanks to JHo)

If you promise to stay right like that for, say, thirty seconds? — I’m pretty sure I can finish this up on my own, honey.

I’ve thought that the birth certificate issue was a political broad axe, created by Axelrod and wielded by the campaign to cut off discussion of the man who is Barack Obama. The core Alinskyite political tool is ridicule. The press conference this morning was the money shot in a multi-year induced ridicule campaign, designed to conflate and discredit people who want to know anything about the mind, the thinking, the