From the Washington Examiner’s gaggle of racist crackers who just can’t learn to accept the fact of a black President. Who won. And so have responded by getting all angry and hatey: What is unusual in the reaction to Arizona’s new immigration law is the degree of ignorance about its provisions. For example, those on the far right who are cheered because they think the law will inspire new efforts

From the Washington Examiner’s gaggle of racist crackers who just can’t learn to accept the fact of a black President. Who won. And so have responded by getting all angry and hatey: What is unusual in the reaction to Arizona’s new immigration law is the degree of ignorance about its provisions. For example, those on the far right who are cheered because they think the law will inspire new efforts

…which likely ain’t all that much, Americans aren’t very high on the idea of a VAT tax: More than two thirds of Americans oppose the imposition of a Value-Added Tax, according to a new poll released Tuesday which also shows that voters, by a two-to-one margin, think the government needs to rein in its rate of spending. “Voters think a VAT is a bad idea by 67 to 21 percent,”

Michael Tanner, Cato: With spending going up, and future savings likely to fall short of promises, we can expect higher deficits and, of course, higher taxes. The most recent estimates suggest that the taxes already in the bill will likely end up costing middle-class workers and small businesses an extra $1,000 per year. Now the most recent report from the Congressional Budget Office warns that nearly 4 million Americans, nearly

Michael Tanner, Cato: With spending going up, and future savings likely to fall short of promises, we can expect higher deficits and, of course, higher taxes. The most recent estimates suggest that the taxes already in the bill will likely end up costing middle-class workers and small businesses an extra $1,000 per year. Now the most recent report from the Congressional Budget Office warns that nearly 4 million Americans, nearly

In the wake of the car bomb in New York, Mayor Bloomberg “wondered aloud” to Katie Couric “if the culprit behind the Times Square car bomb was ‘a mentally deranged person or somebody with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health-care bill or something.’” Those VIOLENT tea partiers! …But the minute a Pakistani is arrested and taken into custody, Bloomberg starts admonishing that “bias towards Muslims will NOT be

Michael Barone: Left parties are in trouble in the Anglosphere. Here in America Democrats are doing worse in the polls than at any time in the last 50 years. In Britain the Labor party is on the brink of finishing third, behind both Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, in the election next Thursday. […] […] Barack Obama and Blair’s successor, Gordon Brown, head governments that are running budget deficits of 10

Michael Barone: Left parties are in trouble in the Anglosphere. Here in America Democrats are doing worse in the polls than at any time in the last 50 years. In Britain the Labor party is on the brink of finishing third, behind both Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, in the election next Thursday. […] […] Barack Obama and Blair’s successor, Gordon Brown, head governments that are running budget deficits of 10

After promising austerity measures, Greece got its bailout. Evidently, though, some who’ve been nurtured at the teat of the European nannystate continue to believe that if you can’t have it all, none of it is worth having. Ed Morrissey: Communists in Greece staged massive May Day rallies this weekend, opposing the deal and the austerity measures. Molotov cocktails got tossed at police at some of the demonstrations. The Greeks are

…even when Barbara Boxer or Chris Dodd insist otherwise. Exit question: is, like, the Senate too big to fail, I wonder…? **** related: “How to avoid a bailout bill”