Which, don’t blame me for that designation. You chose the anchor, and you chose to tie your ship to it. Metaphorically speaking. As others have said, when the Left was given the perfect storm in 2008 to elect a President of their choosing, they went all in and helped place a far-left ideologue into Office. Given a similar scenario today, alternately, the GOP is trying to put forth — against

Good lord: They have trouble with spelling, grammar and showing up to class on time—and we’re not talking about the students. The city tried to expel 26 teachers from the classroom last year for gross incompetence—such as English teachers who couldn’t write or speak the language properly. But officials maintain that stringent union rules prohibited them from succeeding in just half those cases—even when hearing officers actually agreed with the

But don’t worry: we in the GOP are going to ride to the rescue on our middling steed with a pro-government health care, pro-cap-and-trade, pro-TARP former blue state technocrat governor in the saddle, a man with fine hair and chiseled features who will promise to manage this mess in a way that many of us will barely even know it’s there, it’s expanding so very slowly! And it is this

Looks like the AG is prepared to double down on the ignorance defense. Which, I guess, beats copping to conspiracy charges in the death of US border agents. So, you know, glass half full and all that, right, Mr Attorney General?

Clearly, Bill Gates is not paying his fair share to private sector innovators. Quick, somebody pass a law! It’s regularly been pointed out that the average compensation—that includes pay and benefits—for federal workers is now double the private sector average. Defenders of federal employees have routinely insisted that this is an unfair comparison. Well, Andrew Biggs, the former Social Security Administration deputy commissioner for policy and American Enterprise Insititute Scholar,

Zero Hedge’s Tyler Durden offers a sharp gloss on a WSJ’s piece on the MF Global Bankruptcy: On the three month bankruptcy anniversary of the company whose rehypothecation gimmicks will one day be seen as a harbinger of everything that is broken with the multi-trillion ponzi system, but not just yet despite loud warnings otherwise, we are getting close to a final verdict of where the $1.2 billion (and possibly

Sure, the GOP Establishment and many erstwhile “conservative” opinion-leaders are pushing Romney down our throats this election season (because what says “conservative alternative to Obama” better than a pro-government health care, pro-cap and trade, pro-TARP former Massachusetts governor / professional campaigner?) — and sure, many “TEA Party leaders” have come out in support of Gingrich (because, in addition to being pro-TARP, pro-cap and trade, and pro-ethanol subsidies, what says “TEA

From Patrick Lee, John N. and Jamie D. McAleer Professor of Bioethics at Franciscan University of Steubenville. Much of what is covered here is, for us here at pw, old ground: the definition of marriage as a type of relationship turns on just how we identify what is special about that type such that the government has a unique and legally defensible interest in promoting it (I don’t share with

I’m beginning to wonder just how far back has Romney been, through his operatives, manipulating the Party, press, and other’s campaigns in order to have himself positioned as not only the inevitable candidate but President too. Quotes below from several places that seem to me to point in that direction when taken together.

Sarah Palin decries the Alinskyite tactics an organized GOP establishment has been using to clear the field for its preferred candidate, Mitt Romney, and the response from certain conservatives is to note that it is the TEA Party who profits most from the tactics of Alinsky — indeed, that it relies on them for its very political successes: Rather than reject Alinsky’s rules for radicals, the Tea Party has adopted