add 2 parts NPR and filter through food personality Lynne Rosseto Kasper. Allow mixture to set. Yield: one crazy-ass cupcake.

“Soviet Union!” “Apartheid South Africa!” “Breathing While Undocumented!” The left-liberal marketing response to Arizona’s recently passed border security law is beginning to take shape — and predictably, it uses all of the tropes previously aimed at opponents of just about every single one of Obamalot’s designs to remake the country into a centralized progressive nanny state under the care and feeding of our betters: those 70% of Arizonans who support

Or, for regular readers, let’s call it the Nishi Gambit. From the Washington Examiner, “Obama’s election year pitch leaves out white males”: President Obama’s tricky, midterm election strategy relies on luring back the first-time voters who supported him in 2008 plus re-engaging women, blacks, young voters and Hispanics. In a video message emailed to more than 13 million supporters, Obama said Democrats need a 2008 repeat. “It will be up

      “Personally,” he shrugged, “I don’t see any problem with pointing out what a clever little people the Jews are. I mean, am I wrong? — or have they not done extremely well as capitalists by mastering the finer points of…well, let’s just call it supply and demand and interest…?”      I nodded. “True. Not to mention that some of your best friends are probably Jews.”       “Well, let’s not go

City Journal, “The Beholden State: How public-sector unions broke California”: The camera focuses on an official of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), California’s largest public-employee union, sitting in a legislative chamber and speaking into a microphone. “We helped to get you into office, and we got a good memory,” she says matter-of-factly to the elected officials outside the shot. “Come November, if you don’t back our program, we’ll get

From the Washington Examiner: Senate Republicans say they will likely have the votes to block the start of debate on a major financial reform bill, which would leave the legislation in limbo until a bipartisan deal can be achieved. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., plans to hold a vote late Monday afternoon but so far appears to lack the 60 votes needed to achieve cloture and stop a Republican

From the Boston Herald: A Boston sports-radio host yesterday likened former Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow’s NFL draft party to a “Nazi rally,” a remark one media observer called an “amazing double standard.” Fred “Toucher” Toettcher said yesterday on 98.5 The Sports Hub, “It looked like some kind of Nazi rally. . . . So lily-white is what I’m trying to say. Yeah, Stepford Wives.” Station spokesman Cha-Chi Loprete said

I’m working on some NFL draft stuff today, so I won’t be posting much. However, I’ve decided that it’s time for me to begin reading fiction regularly again — and I’ve decided to concentrate on sci-fi / cyberpunky stuff (if only to figure out what the hell Nishi is talking about half the time). I’ve read some Philip K. Dick — and the Stephenson stuff like Snow Crash and Diamond

Latest buzz has Washington taking Berry at 4 (I’m not sold), which would affect just about every mock I’ve read. There’s some talk that Cleveland or San Fran is interested in Clausen, but again, I’m not sold: Cleveland can land McCoy early in the second (and he’s a perfect fit for the west coast offense) and pick up somebody like Haden or Earl Thomas at 7. And San Fran would