I leave very early in the morning Friday (more like late tonight, if you’re a bar or club dweller) to head off to Chicago. I’ll be there until Monday. Looks like we’re going to have a meet-up with a few folks who can make it tomorrow night — likely at a place called Emmett’s on Milwaukee Ave. We’ll also be going out to dinner somewhere on Sunday evening. If you’d

Heartening? Or self-defeating. Depends on whether or not your are an OUTLAW or a “pragmatist”, I guess. From the Hill: The Tea Party is hosting a Tax Day rally on Thursday in Washington, but the Republicans leaders in the House and Senate are not invited. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (Ariz.), House Minority Leader John Boehner (Ohio) and House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (Va.)

Just another example of our President treating our allies shabbily, while rushing to coddle our enemies in the misguided notion that they will respond to anything other than absolute strength, both militarily, of conviction, and of will. (h/t Bob Reed)

The Washington Examiner’s Chris Stirewalt: […] there’s no doubt that hating the government and the powerful interests that pull Washington’s strings has gone from the radical precincts of the Right and Left to the mainstream. It turns out that watching Goldman Sachs, the United Auto Workers, public employee unions and a raft of other vampires drain the treasury at America’s weakest moment in a generation will make a person pretty