Jim Geraghty, The Morning Jolt: Today President Obama  travels to Colorado to “meet with law enforcement and community leaders to discuss the gun control package signed into law by Gov. John Hickenlooper.” That’s a three-hour flight, right? At  $179,750 per hour, that comes out to $1,078,500 in costs for Air Force One for the trip. That’s just about the cost of public tours of the White House for one year.

… Forgive me for pointing this out, but it looks like downhill driving is overdetermined — and perhaps even willfully so. From the Bureau of Labor Statistics: I’ll let Doug Ross break down the particulars for you: A. President Obama is inaugurated. B. President Obama signs Obamacare into law. Thousands of pages of law and tens of thousands of pages of regulations (which have yet to be completed) have thrown

Jordan Bloom at the American Conservative — who I take it is a Bioshock fan — wants to make it clear that he isn’t one of those kind of conservatives, the kind who “rhapsodize” in ways unhinged and ill-informed, who “freak out” over what is just “a video game, for Heaven’s sake.”  Writes Bloom: What’s so funny about this is that neither [the Virginian or Goldstein] actually identify the game,

It’s out in the open now.  There’s no longer any real pretense of objectivity. Each time the progressive media “report” favorably on something they characterize like this (fairly or not) — and no switch comes down to sting their hands — they grow ever more emboldened.  In the Oval Office they know they have someone who believes the very same things as they do, someone  steeped in the very same

And because the city government has protected by way of state law the government union employees whom they rely on to keep them in power, one hand washes the other, and the creditors get fucked (in theory:  here, it’s the insurers who get fucked, and that’s probably not much to cry over, given that they themselves banked on the implausibility of a city going in to default) while the public

It’s a brave new world, one in which failing localities who’ve run out of other people’s money to hand out to favored constituencies will either fail, find additional revenue streams, or rely on the federal courts to save them from their own stupid decisions — like, for instance, the California law that says debts to the state’s pension fund must be honored.  With bankruptcy protection granted by the courts, these

Don’t care? Skip the post. But save the commentary. Over 400 kids competed this Saturday, with many coming in from across the state and Nebraska. It was a two-hour drive to Sterling — and I was sick in bed, so his Mom had to tote him there and coach him — so I’m especially proud of him for how he competed this week, with his loss in the championship more

Which, let them. The children of Colorado will all be safer without this reprehensible company’s accessories of war around, anyway. Sure, some of the kid’s parents may be out of a job as a result — which could in some small way affect the children negatively. But that will only last until the newly unemployed parent from the company that made child-slaughtering assault accessories forgoes the sin of pride, frees

Bastiat: The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder. And it has converted lawful defense into a crime, in order to punish lawful defense. By accident of birth we were lucky enough to be born into liberty, protected by a

Fortunately for us they didn’t think to do this sooner else HBO never could have made “The Wire.” You need gun crime to make a show like that compelling, and now that the Maryland Democrats have banned gun crime and gun violence, well, the raw material just wouldn’t be there anymore. On the plus side, though, it’s now safe for white professionals once again to move to West Baltimore and