I made the mistake of listening to FauxNewz and I heard the price of Obama’s budget. He is calling for $3.5 trillion in spending in 2010, with a budget deficit this year of $1.75 trillion. $3.5 trillion. Let that roll around in your head a little bit. It almost sounds like a lot of money, doesn’t it? When I heard that figure, something in my head snapped. I had to

Comedian Jay Leno was hauled in front of his own union’s trial committee Wednesday to address charges that he broke guild rules during last season’s writers strike, a full year after the alleged violations. The NBC late-night host was a prominent backer of the Writers Guild of America during the 100-day work stoppage, but he alarmed union officials when he announced on the air that he was penning his own

Fuck the UN, and fuck Islamists and their fucking enablers. I can’t put it more judiciously than that. UN out of US. Related.

This really ought to be under the auspices of The Office of Oversight Oversight. Well, of course. There were no earmarks in the “Stimulus” package. Obama said so. The bad news, of course, is that majority party Democrats are adamant against having any investigation into whether there are links between campaign contributions and earmarks in bills – which is very interesting, given that they control Congress, and thus can presumably

Michael Totten has up his account of Hitch and the Syrian Nazis. It differs from mine mostly in the wealth of concrete detail. My guess is that certain expletives might also have been redacted. Robert Burton’s speculative piece about the inner workings of Bernie Madoff’s brain is also interesting, and has applications for those who are presently reading Julius Caesar with me. A piece on the brilliant Miss Trimble and