Remember that great youth movement for Obama — the young supporters, first-time voters, mostly college kids?  Well, they fucked up!  They trusted him!  “Obama’s Balloon: Federal Student Loan Debt Up 517% in 5 Years”: Since President Barack Obama took office in January 2009, the cumulative outstanding balance on federal direct student loans has jumped 517.4 percent. The balance owed as of the end of May was $739,641,000,000.00. That is an

Emotionalist Rousseauvian gibberish once again tries to lay claim to art. “Metropolitan Opera romanticizes one NYer’s murder” : In 1985, New Yorker Leon Klinghoffer, 69, and his wife Marilyn took a cruise to celebrate their 36th wedding anniversary. Leon never came back: Four members of the Palestine Liberation Front hijacked the Achille Lauro, shot him in the head and threw him overboard in his wheelchair. Starting in October, The Metropolitan Opera

In this case, we have Colorado Governor Hickenlooper attempting to rewrite legislative history and walk himself back toward the practical “moderate” pro-business label he relies upon to bullshit his way through election cycles.  Only something happened on the way to the forum… “Gov. Hickenlooper’s attempt to charm Colorado sheriffs backfires”: Gov. John Hickenlooper ignited a political firestorm with his comments Friday to Colorado’s sheriffs, saying he was unaware they wanted

Obama, without Congressional approval (naturally), has sent 250 or so troops to Iraq to help “train” the beleaguered victims of the terrorists overtaking the country he all but abandoned. Which is, of course, nothing more than a move to placate critics and create a veneer of concern over the disintegration of Iraq and the ascension of an Islamist caliphate, beginning with its own nation state. Then it’s off to golf

No.  It’s not hyperbole, either.  In a 5-4 decision, the Court reversed the rationale behind the natural right encapsulated in the 2nd Amendment, in my view, inasmuch as its ruling doesn’t sanction the prohibition of criminals from obtaining firearms as it does reinforces the government’s right to track who has them.  For the Greater Good, you see.  AP: A divided Supreme Court sided with gun control groups and the Obama

I just received close to 2-years worth of emails from Lois Lerner, but when I went to open them, they’d disappeared and been replaced by what seems a very intriguing, very promising financial proposal from a wealthy, embattled Nigerian prince…

I can remember back when pointing out that the abuse of hermeneutics — that is, institutionalizing an incoherent system of interpretation — would lead, inexorably and inevitably, into a brand of tyranny and totalitarianism policed by some motivated political consensus and a will to power — was both “fundamentally unserious” (what was serious was getting McCain/Romney elected!) and “pseudo-intellectual,” despite what I’m fairly certain is a more advanced study of

Words can’t express my utter shock.  Well, unless the words were “yawn” and “duh”: The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Monday released a report that finds President Barack Obama and other top Democrats encouraged the IRS to investigate conservative groups seeking tax exempt status. The report says this encouragement from the White House shows that the IRS targeting scandal was rooted in politics, and is not the result

… Lindsay Lohan is still drunk and Miley Cyrus is still flashing body parts … They just can’t help themselves. Describing lawmakers and pundits who deny manmade climate change as a “fairly serious threat to everybody’s future,” President Obama on Saturday called for less debate and more action in combating warming trends. […] Speaking at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, Obama compared the scientific problem of curbing climate change to that

To Jeff, to all the dads here at PW, to dads everywhere, to dads still with us and in remembrance of dads who are not – – the responsibilities and obligations you take on are formidable and sometimes the recognition of the importance of what you do isn’t what it should be. But even if gratitude is delayed, it is there. Love, too.