In Obama’s America, the number of people on food stamps has jumped 39% — a percentage dwarfed by the left-liberal government’s increase in the acquisition of limousines, up 73%. Administration officials note that the increase in limos is part of an effort to better protect diplomats and other officials of government in a dangerous world; which makes sense, I guess, given the number of people now out of work who

She won’t send advance teams. She won’t provide an itinerary. She hasn’t phoned ahead to the local GOP headquarters to let them know she’s coming. She doesn’t tell the media where she’s going to be or when she’ll be there. And it’s driving the mainstream press to distraction — giving her the media coverage she needs, on her terms, because they just can’t quit her, and because they can’t help

Uh-oh: In bemoaning the pain of fiscal responsibility, the Democrats show they still haven’t learned the lessons of Europe. So writes Newsweek. Newsweek. Let me repeat that again. So writes Newsweek: To American commentators, notably New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, the lesson is clear. “In Europe,” he wrote last week, “the pain caucus has been in control for more than a year, insisting that sound money and balanced budgets

* 9. blueberry 8. (tie) poppy / stabbing Sharon Tate repeatedly with a giant knife, killing both the actress and her unborn baby, then smearing the walls with some arcane — but delightfully insouciant! — social commentary in blood. 7. climbing into a trashbag and settling down in the mud after having torn your own clothes, smeared yourself with shit, and written racist epithets all over your own body —

Double dip! Nationally, house prices are back to where they were in mid-2002, according to S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices data for March, released this morning. Prices on the national index, the 20-City Composite Index and the indices for 12 of the 20 metropolitan areas set new lows for the recession this month, and in four of the areas – Atlanta, Cleveland, Detroit and Las Vegas – house prices have retreated

LAT: Some ominous political news for President Obama the day after he chose Memorial Day to name a new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: With just 15 months until the 2012 presidential election, Obama’s overall job approval among Americans has sunk back down into the 40s. But now a new poll of nearly a quarter-million Americans finds the commander-in-chief’s job approval is even worse among members of the

That idea that judges should interpret the Constitution by discovering the original intent or meaning of the text ignores the history of this country’s founding. So argues Saul Cornell, Fordham History chair and a Senior Research Scholar in Residence at Yale Law School, in a predictable piece that turns on the postmodernist’s favorite trope, unknowability, followed by their favorite erroneous conclusion, that metaphysical uncertainty for deciding which interpretation is the

The boy graduated first grade yesterday and today has scheduled a pizza and paper plane party, boys only. As a result, I am busy doing lawn work, house cleaning, and party prep. My apologies. Today you’ll have to summarize the news on your own.

Keep an eye out. If Christie starts demanding that his local Taco Bell post National Guardsmen at the doors to prevent illegals from assembling bean burritos, he’s almost certainly planning on running for President. Which is great. But for my money, I’m more excited by the prospect of Sarah Palin on a Harley Fat Boy announcing that she’s getting in to take America back, Easy Rider style. (h/t Rush Limbaugh)

No growth, an ever-expanding federal Leviathan, a diminution of individual liberty, crony capitalism, high unemployment, profligate spending, and a disjointed foreign policy that seems to favor framing events after they’ve happened? All black things, I guess. Making my pointing out that the employment rate among black men is at a record low under this administration akin to donning my hood for a kind of rhetorical lynching.