Meghan McCain: “You see, it’s not that I have anything against the pleasuring of asses per se. It’s just that, well — I find the whole idea of how to go about the pleasurings absolutely fraught with potential abuses, and speaking as someone who’s spent some time all up in there and whatnot, I just think there are better ways to go about such pleasurings. Like, maybe, feathers or some

Well! You don’t say! “Blankfein supports financial reform bill,” The Hill: A financial regulatory reform bill has at least one supporter outside of Congressional Democrats, Lloyd Blankfein, the head of investment bank Goldman Sachs. “I’m generally supportive,” Blankfein told the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Wall Street will benefit from the bill because it will make the market safer, Blankfein said. “The biggest beneficiary of reform is Wall Street itself,”

Are states beginning a push back against the feds? Utah State Representative Stephen Sandstrom, appearing “On the Record” with Greta Van Sustern: SANDSTROM: […] Right now, it’s actually imperative that the state of Utah act aggressively with the same type of legislation that we have in Arizona because in the past, when Arizona has tightened the noose around illegal immigration, so to speak, we’ve seen an influx of illegal aliens

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