A nice companion piece to Harsanyi’s column, this time from CNS News. “American Businesses Should Spend Some of Their Cash Reserves to Create ‘Green’ Jobs, Suggests EPA’s Lisa Jackson”: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson suggested on Tuesday that American businesses with a “record amount of cash holdings,” estimated at $1.93 trillion, could invest some of those holdings to create jobs that advance pollution control. Jackson, speaking at the BlueGreen

Harsanyi on the new normal. “Cronyism isn’t capitalism”: “Right now, businesses across this country are proving that America can compete,” Obama explained, listing a number of businesses that get it like Caterpillar, Whirlpool, Dow and a company named Geomagic. All of these phenomenal success stories (thanks to Ira Stoll at The Future of Capitalism blog for pointing this out) also share, in one way or another, the privilege of feeding

“Clinic Near Baden-Baden Considered For Mubarak”: The United States government’s scenario for an end to the political chaos in Egypt appears to be this: President Hosni Mubarak travels to Germany for a “prolonged health check” that would offer the 82-year-old a dignified departure. Over the weekend, the New York Times reported that secret talks to that effect were being held between the US government and Egyptian military officials. According to

FYI: Please note that it is the position of Tribe, et al., that the Constitution — thanks to a series of rulings on the Commerce Clause that have repeatedly pulled it away from its original intent and so has in perpetuity (under his reading) set in place conditions for its expansion and reach — is a document espousing limited government that by its own designs can do no such thing;

— Which, that’s not very helpful, I don’t think. I mean, that’s what we have Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin for, right? To keep the fringe purists distracted with shiny sequined dresses while the pragmatists do the adult work of figuring out ways both parties can benefit — while selling expansionist programs and ever-increasing entitlement spending to the voters in the feel-good language of reform? Compromise. It doesn’t have to

Really? Because next you’ll be telling me that the government will declare that what we exhale — and what plants “breathe” — is a pollutant. And I’m just not buying your slippery slope arguments. WHY DO YOU HATE CLEAN WATER AND FOWL WITHOUT CRUDE OIL ON THEIR FEATHERS THAT VOLUNTEERS WILL SHOW UP TO CLEAN OFF WITH PRISTINE WHITE CLOTHS?

Marc Theissen, NRO: This view is clearly shared by many Senate Republicans, who are falling over themselves to introduce targeted measures that would eliminate various individual provisions of Obamacare, with the goal of repealing the bill plank by plank. This may seem like a good idea. But in today’s Washington Post, I argue that by pursuing piecemeal repeal Republicans are walking into a trap Obama set in his State of

For TEA Party types, who hope to expand their grass roots mobilization, a magazine. For those the left hopes will come to support ObamaCare? Some smart dude has decided a comic book might help the dullards understand an erstwhile 2700 pages of what’s good for them. Blessedly, he decided not to put either Barack or Michelle in tights.

“We’ll tell you how you’re supposed to work.” Elections have consequences. But if the rule of law no longer applies for this administration — you don’t get to pick and choose which court rulings you wish to follow — by what authority can they insist any law is binding on us? Smoke ’em if you got ’em, people. Preferably inside a government building. While eating a bag of heavily salted

That Egypt uprising? A product of global climate change. No, really. A Nobel laureate and New York Times’ columnist told me so. — Just before he dressed himself in lederhosen and bib suspenders, donned a feathered Bavarian cap, and spent a half-hour yodeling himself into a frenzy on 5th Avenue in advance of eating an entire tabby cat. And even that wasn’t as crazy as his Egypt column.