Q: What do you call a socialist dictator’s Tweets? A: Tweets. What, you think we’re about to change the word just for that douche?

Darleen earlier raised the issue of the potential for abuses in Arizona’s (locally popular) border enforcement law, and Reason’s Steve Chapman expands on concerns from a libertarian perspective: The worst-case scenario is that Hispanics will face possible police harassment anytime they venture out of the house. Not to worry, says Kris Kobach, a law professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City who helped draft the text. He told The Washington

Were I compelled to spend eternity pushing a large stone up a hill — only to have it roll back down every time before I could get it quite to the top — I think I’d spend less time reading Camus and more time working on my invention. Which I’d tentatively take to calling “giant-ass slingshot for propelling really large rolling stones all the way to the top of some

There’s nothing more embarrassing to pragmatic “conservative” elites than when the bitterclinger “fringe” goes around calling Obama a “socialist” or “communist”. Simply gauche, such overstatements are — not to mention unhelpful: Obama loves the American ideal just as much as you or I, the argument goes, and to pretend otherwise is to distract from the more important work of finding a common ground upon which to govern. He is a