Some pig’s “fair shares” are more equal than others’. Evidently.

“FirstEnergy closing 6 plants due to new EPA rules.” Result? Higher energy costs, a loss of real local jobs, a further diminution of domestic energy independence, and, inasmuch as the cost of electricity impacts the cost of doing business, higher prices on products and services that at some stage require the use of electricity. None of which matters, really. Because Obama read some William Blake once, and coal, it turns

All birther eyes are now on Atlanta — and this time, consequences might attach. Of course, what does eligibility matter when you are genuinely trying to do good for the US? By, you know — fundamentally transforming it. Here’s a little bit of advice for Bill O’Reilly: most of us don’t judge a person’s “goodness” by his willingness to appear on our TV show, just as most of us don’t

Byron York has a history lesson for you. And Sarah Palin believes you should read it and pay close attention, lest you further embarrass your party and prove yourself a bundle of undisciplined, panty-wadded smear proving yourselves to be nothing more than useful idiots helping the left determine who our viable and “electable” candidates are: Given all the attention to the ethics matter, it’s worth asking what actually happened back

— Evidently, that’s a message for local consumption only — y’know, a rote pander meant to appeal to the jingoists and the xenophobes and the bitter clinging middle-American hayseeds Obama is going to need to con yet again if he’s to have any hope of being re-elected. Whereas in the real world — the world of smart diplomacy and smart elites who Know How Things Get Done — ObamaCo leaves

— for all those in the GOP smart set who were Absolutely Crushed when Mitch Daniels decided not to run — and Absolutely Elated when Sarah Palin did the same — well, last night’s official GOP response to the President’s State of the Union Address, I submit, is as clear an indication of how tone deaf is the Republican’s non-existent “Establishment” to the mood of the conservative base as we’re

And everyone knows that the best way to “reclaim” “American values” — a product, one supposes, of that “flawed document,” the Constitution — is by “fundamentally transforming” the United States, whose first proud moment came when its erswhile racist proles banded together to elect Barack Obama President. So we needn’t reach back very far. We just have to re-elect Barack Obama, and all is restored. — Is the takeaway here.

Welcome to the Utopian vision. Same as it ever was. (h/t IP and slart)

I will be at wrestling practice with my son, but for those of you brave enough to watch it, you can comment on it here. Me, I’ve already heard it. In my head. And it sounded just like I knew it would. Call me prescient.

“Welcome, all. Comfy? Good. Now, stick ’em up.”