I would have gone with “because he’s a Marxist and this is what they do,” but then that’s speaking broadly. Jim Pethokoukis is more interested in the nuts and bolts: All the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts. Gone. It would have been the Mother of All Tax Hikes, a $3 trillion tax increase during shaky economic times. It would have broken a campaign promise not to raise taxes on

…that they routinely track back here (though strangely, always, it seems, in posts that mention almost by rote how silly are my arguments and how irrelevant are my thoughts), I decided I’d do them the solid of exposing some of the things that pass for cogent commentary from their Very Intelligent Readers (among whom we can count timb, who will prove himself unable to resist his spurned-lover’s urges to run

When the Left becomes the hidebound ruling establishment, the youth will revolt against the Left. And the right will give them … Mitt Freaking Romney.

— Which, evidently, will need to be refitted so that they can run on, say, gasoline. Once the electricity is all used up and the coal plants all bankrupted and shut down, I mean. Progress! GenOn Energy Inc. plans to close five of its older coal-fired power plants in Pennsylvania over the next four years. The company, based in Houston, said Wednesday that tough new environmental rules make it unprofitable

The plot, it thickens.

[story and link removed] (h/t roddy b) **** updated: Looks like it’s a hoax. Which, of course it is: no single tree is going to kill Arnold Schwarzenegger. It would take a forest of them. And a couple cyborgs made out of liquid metal. And probably a super aggressive strain of syphilis.

Video tribute by Ben Howe, courtesy Jason Stverak and the Franklin Center. Also, see Andrew Malcolm: He was often controversial because his opponents often couldn’t answer his stories online, so they went after the messenger. Andrew loved it. He was one of the few people you encounter in life who bite at every experience, good and bad. Where does that energy come from? You’d get a late-night call with Andrew

Again, from Melanie Phillips’s The World Turned Upside Down: We noted earlier how Islamism, as a form of revolutionary utopianism, marches alongside the left. But as a revolt against liberalism and modernity, it is closely allied with both communism and fascism. That is because, just like these two secular Western movements which also led to fanaticism, terror and mass murder, Islamism repudiates modernity and reason in the interests of creating

And frankly, I’m glad they’re stupid enough to keep hitting “publish.” As would Andrew Breitbart be, I dare say. There it is. For the world to see. Forever. Own it.

What he is, not what he has. About the latter I have no idea. Though I have my suspicions.