Time is drawing near as the new house gets closer to completion each day.  We have our pre-dry wall walk-through coming up on Friday, after which the spray foam goes in and seals up all the electrical, plumbing, low volt, etc.  It’s exciting and terrifying at the same time.  I walk the place every day learning for the first time just how houses are built.  It’s been a fascinating experience

Or the offspring of The Ruling Class One Direction better watch out. A new boy band is taking the stage and they’ve got the power of the White House behind them. The tween group, Twenty20, includes the offspring of some of Obama’s top advisers — Jay Carney’s 12-year-old son, Hugo, U.S. Trade Rep. Mike Froman’s son Ben, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan’s son Lucas and Joey Doyle, whose mom is Hillary

I don’t think it’s that he has any shame, or that he’s tired of endlessly spinning.  I think rather it’s that he’s emptied his quiver of lying tropes which in turn makes him sound stale; and standing there in front of your former colleagues with nothing but your castrated bits to show for your years of acting the public stooge can be offputting.  They’re mean little buggers, these press climbers,

In his West Point commencement address, Obama essentially noted that, until the US joins the “international community” and agrees to cede power over its sea lanes to the UN — that is, until we surrender some of our sovereignty to nations openly hostile to us — we have no real right getting involved in the South China Sea.  This was a message to the Chinese, the Russians, the Iranians, the

This is for all the GOP “pragmatists” and nuanced realists who wasted so much time (and in some cases continue to do so) identifying Obama for who he is and has always been — in so doing, allowing progressive policy and bureaucratic lawlessness to reach troubling speeds, the formula for which can only be adequately figured out using some advanced physics theorem. I’ve written before about the feds’ tracking the

The house I’m building is in that stage right before the electrical gets covered with closed cell spray foam, so I’m spending a lot of time on the site making sure everything goes in right.  Yesterday (and in about a half hour), I’ll be checking to make sure low volt wires are run for surveillance cameras (thanks, noescrow!) and that all the outlets are placed properly.  I’m going to have

First they came for the Hispanic tree trimmers… My guess?  This guy is a fully documented citizen.  Otherwise, instead of looking at jail time for unintentionally bruising some Heron as a subcontractor for the US Govt., he’d be whisked away to some welfare office, signed up for all sorts of freebies, then enrolled in some college at in-state tuition rates, with government fellowships paying the rest of his way. Because

— Which, I think I made a similar argument when Jim Pethokoukis took Piketty’s — and, by extension we now know, this entire Administration’s — economic modeling seriously, and offered a sober rejoinder, correcting certain of Piketty’s mistaken assumptions or lapses in rigor. And I did so because the academic work done by the left begins with the conclusion and tries to reason backward from that conclusion, looking for clever