Squid, in the comments to my post on MF Global: Let me see if I’m understanding this correctly — Obama/Pelosi/Reid quadruple the federal deficit, so that Washington can push more taxes. Holder “loses” 2,000 rifles to Mexican drug cartels, so that Washington can push more gun control. Then Corzine “loses” a billion dollars of Other People’s Money, so that Washington can push more finance regulation. Am I the only one

From his show last evening [click over to The Right Scoop to listen to the audio]: There’s only one way this country can be saved, with a conservative! And it’s high damn time that so-called conservative pundits, and conservative outlets, and conservative websites, and conservative magazines start acting their role! And I don’t just mean in their fundraising appeals, how conservative they are, but I mean use their intellectual power,

…and then, in the spirit of the season, please send them along to pw regulars, BJTex, Sgt York, and donald — and to James Joyner of OTB. As some of you already know, BJTex has had a bit of a setback in his battle with a brain tumor. But as always, he’s maintained his good spirits. To contact him, email me for his info, or email Danger Dave, who can

Final day today! Last chance to buy yourself some cheap grace and seasonal good will! Go for it. You know you want to. Coda: Once again, thanks to all of you who’ve contributed to what’s been a long, strange trip, covering 10 years, a few wars, the mass dissemination of smartphone technology, and the whole sordid rise and fall of Lindsay Lohan. And probably some other shit that I can’t

Which means that we have to stuff a flux capacitor into a Firebird rather than a DeLorean — but that we’ll still have to stomach a lot of Yes and Chicago. I guess is the point. James Pethokoukis: […] what Obama is really saying is this: “Let’s go back to the 1970s.” It was a Golden Age of Equality, with the top 1 percent’s share of national income at its

Thompson Reuters News and Insight: A legal loophole in international brokerage regulations means that few, if any, clients of MF Global are likely to get their money back. Although details of the drama are still unfolding, it appears that MF Global and some of its Wall Street counterparts have been actively and aggressively circumventing U.S. securities rules at the expense (quite literally) of their clients. MF Global’s bankruptcy revelations concerning

As Eric Holder testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on “Fast and Furious” (CBS investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson, who helped break the story, is covering the hearings via Twitter), former chairman of the Committee Jim Sensenbrenner today suggested that impeachment of administration officials involved with Operation Fast and Furious may be the only way to bring the scandal to a close. In a heated exchange between Sensenbrenner and Holder during

Obama is busy now pitching “fairness” to the American voter — with fairness, from the perspective of the left, a kind of ideological code word for a state of being in which equality of outcome is brought about by a controlled redistribution of wealth by a benevolent (but practical!) central authority that first takes its administrative cut (allowing the rulers and bureaucrats and the enforcement apparatus to live more equal

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So interesting answers here (transcript, courtesy CNN). Clearly, Gingrich believes the conservative message is ascendant and is what will sell with GOP voters — at least, those not looking for an establishment candidate. Because the GOP already has Romney for that, and if Gingrich is going to find traction he realizes he has to change his post-Congress course and veer harder right to capture the anti-Romney vote. His debating skills