Two of the newer excuses trotted out in recent weeks for the continued lackluster performance of the several “Recovery Summers!” we’ve suffered through under Obama’s stewardship are as follows: first, we’re told, any comparison of the Obama economic recovery to the Reagan economic recovery is “unfair” given Reagan’s ability to factor in growth in the housing market, the single indicator that is keeping Obama’s Keynesian gimmicks from really boosting economic

It’s the new math: “New Home Sales 2011: Worst Year on Record” + “Annual GDP grew just 1.7 percent, debt nearly larger than economy” = Gee, that Obama sure is doing some damage to this country, isn’t he? There. Because I’m a giver, that’s why.

Yesterday at my son’s school was “Australia Day” (he came home with a little Australian flag affixed to his backpack with a toothpick). Today is a half day / early release day. So my question is this: did I sleep through a revolution or something? Or are there new religious observances I need to be made aware of? I mean, shit. You turn off the cable TV for one day,

And what’s the market bear these days in Democrat circles for the sale of your civil rights? A ten spot. Tell me: is it really too late to bring back a poll tax?

This one from Frank Hagen: “@proteinwisdom If you’re a conservative blogger criticizing Mitt, Newt, or Rick more than Obama, you’re doing it wrong.” Now, rather than point out that I was all but marginalized and vilified by many on the right in the blogosphere for coming out hard in opposition to Obama — and hard in opposition to those who tried to tell us that his victory meant the “era

— I’m curious why you’d expect me to reward a candidate who, in every election cycle, uses his money and his surrogates and sycophants to level insidious attacks against his opponents — not on the substance of their ideas, but rather in an attempt to smear them personally and, frankly, to ruin them. (The tell came last evening when Romney suggested to Wolf Blitzer that, in fact, Gingrich had indeed

Dan Riehl supplies the missing context. Seems like the establishment is going all in to sink Newt and give us Romney. And if they’re unable to, you can bet that they’ll point to a Gingrich defeat — which they’ll help to fuel — as proof that we need to listen to them about which candidates are “electable” going forward. Here’s the full video of Gingrich on Reagan: Incidentally, there are

Looked at logically, it’s a veritable recipe for creating a democratic socialist state run by a liberal fascist dictatorship: take from those who already pay, launder that plunder through the federal government, and give a portion of it to those who already don’t pay. In such a way do you eventually decrease the number of those who can pay; increase the number of those who can’t; and make all of

Why, yes, yes he is. But only for those already being backed by government sponsored entities. The rest of you can pound sand. You see, it’s all about how you manage big government. And the ability to manage big government only comes if you can get elected. Which only happens if you pander, and promise to govern like a Democrat — albeit a more responsible, more thrifty Democrat. That’s the

I’m feeling surreal in Obama’s America.