We needed to pass the law to see what’s in it, and one of the provisions we’re now finding is the compulsory creation of lactation chambers — a surreal provision that has Staples co-founder Tom Stemberg a bit annoyed: Stemberg […] is questioning an Obamacare provision that discourages job creation by dictating employers funnel their capital into lactation chambers. “Do you want [farming retailer] Tractor Supply to open stores or

The Washington Examiner sees the command-and-control writing on the magical thinking wall: The CAFE rule is the fleet-wide average fuel economy rating manufacturers are required by Washington to achieve. The new rule — issued in response to a 2010 Obama directive, not to specific legislation passed by Congress — would require automakers to achieve a 40.9 mpg CAFE average by 2021 and 54.5 mpg by 2025. In case you’re wondering

If you’re running for Governor in a liberal state, you have to very craftily hide your conservatism — a savvy political posture that includes, incidentally, a willingness to govern as a kind of moderate / progressive Republican who is able to collaborate successfully with Ted Kennedy on creating a system for state run health care — if only to make sure that no one in the state ever knows just

I blame the Hobbits for hating this so much that the GOP leadership, by way of contradistinction, was forced to cut a deal just to show that they aren’t controlled by the filthy ideologues whose purist true believing is naive and dangerous and unhelpful. These TEA Party types are going to be the death of us! (h/t geoffB)

I posted this in the comments yesterday, but not everyone reads the threads all the way through, so I figured I’d elevate it to the front page. Which I can do, this being my site and all. First, this: The Romney campaign — perhaps sensing a potential Santorum surge — has begun in earnest to dump its oppo research into people’s inboxes. To wit: “Romney is going after Santorum now.

But don’t worry: these are the same leftists who have taken over institutional control of just about everything they feel can lend authority to their political agenda. So the real purpose of the investigation, I’d guess, is to suggest integrity where none exists, and to lead, by the ultimate inaction of the committee, to exoneration of their choices — and in an oddly circuitous way, validation for the winners. Meaning

Because I have no idea how to get that little trademark thingie into the title field. My pick: 31-27 New England.

Chalk up another victory for Mr Inevitable — marking the latest in a string of primaries or caucuses where the GOP primary voter has come out for the Republican candidate who supported the Obama stimulus and whose team worked with the Obama Administration on government-run health care and cap and trade; the Republican candidate who supported TARP and federal bailouts rather than allowing for the market system to work; the

Kurt Schlichter: The GOP Establishment we keep hearing about is real, and it is also doomed. That will not change whether the Establishment’s candidate Mitt Romney wins in November or not. After the election, the battle really starts; what is happening now are just skirmishes in a fight for control of the Republican Party. Not the soul of the party – if it had one, it auctioned it off long