Oh. So like, a wet dream. Now I get it.

That’s how the Washington Post frames it, at least: In the legal battle over Arizona’s new immigration law, an ironic subtext has emerged: whether a Bush-era legal opinion complicates a potential Obama administration lawsuit against Arizona. The document, written in 2002 by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, concluded that state police officers have “inherent power” to arrest undocumented immigrants for violating federal law. It was issued by Jay

That’s how the Washington Post frames it, at least: In the legal battle over Arizona’s new immigration law, an ironic subtext has emerged: whether a Bush-era legal opinion complicates a potential Obama administration lawsuit against Arizona. The document, written in 2002 by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, concluded that state police officers have “inherent power” to arrest undocumented immigrants for violating federal law. It was issued by Jay

Wait, so if you try to finesse self-interested rogue regimes from a position of weakness — and let’s face it, taking certain military responses off the table is hardly the kind of preemptive strike that anyone outside of Susan Sarandon’s bedroom is likely to find diplomatically effective — the message those regimes may take from that is that you are, in fact, weak? Wow. Who could have seen that coming.

Robert Romano, ALG: So, despite the political catastrophe of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and the bailouts of Fannie, Freddie, AIG, GM, and Chrysler all under a Republican administration, the Senate — with the help of a “handful of GOP members” reported by the [Washington] Post — is now poised to institutionalize that authority for all time. Too big for too big to fail? The GOP seems to think so.

Who can say? Though Doug Ross has photos that suggest it might not be such a bad thought: This outrageous administration and its pathetic sycophants in Congress spent trillions on “shovel-ready” projects that only harmed the economic health of the country. They borrowed hundreds of billions of dollars from China, which our children must repay with interest when they grow up. And the border remains open, even though the one

I probably could have made a salad for lunch, but fuck it: that leftover sausage and mushroom pizza wasn’t getting any younger — and it certainly wasn’t going to eat itself. So. That settled that.

The Obama Administration seems to believe so: Congressman Mike Pence suspects that the Administration, despite [Hillary] Clinton’s denial, really does believe that America is in decline. At the Conservative Political Action Conference this year, he said, “I am told that officials in this administration will actually admit in private that they see their job as ‘managing American decline.’” If true, the Administration’s approach is extremely chilling. Actually, what’s most chilling

In the case of Obamacare, that’s a rhetorical question. Peter Suderman, Reason: […] while ObamaCare might qualify as victory for Washington’s army of bureaucrats and rulemakers, for the rest of us, there isn’t much to cheer. Since the law’s passage, the news about it has been been unrelentingly bad. With each passing it day, it looks more likely that costs will go up, businesses will face new bureaucratic burdens, and

In the case of Obamacare, that’s a rhetorical question. Peter Suderman, Reason: […] while ObamaCare might qualify as victory for Washington’s army of bureaucrats and rulemakers, for the rest of us, there isn’t much to cheer. Since the law’s passage, the news about it has been been unrelentingly bad. With each passing it day, it looks more likely that costs will go up, businesses will face new bureaucratic burdens, and