There’s no denying it anymore. Studies prove it! If you think $50,000 doesn’t buy what it used to, think again. For that rough sum, a professor at UCLA has agreed to draw up a report that proves opponents of the Democrats’ health-care bill aren’t motivated by a sense of fiscal responsibility or a general distrust of back-room deals, but by race. The kicker? Taxpayers are funding the study. According to

You don’t say: In his brilliant exposition of why sweeping policy changes often have unintended consequences, the late sociologist Robert K. Merton wrote that leaders get things wrong when their “paramount concern with the foreseen immediate consequences excludes the consideration of further or other consequences” of their proposals. This leads policy makers to assert things that are false, wishing them to be true. Which brings us to President Obama’s many

Here’s one of those sites I wish I’d never found. BECAUSE OF THE CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION! (Still. Anybody feel like buying me a $2500 Invicta diving watch for $450? Maybe?)

Outlaw!* Oh. And just so’s we’re clear, remember: dissent is patriotic, and it’s always right to Speak Truth to Power. — Even if doing so makes the President look like a craven, Chicago-style street pimp always on the lookout for a bitch to slap. (h/t happyfeet)

Or, alternately, “Ken Salazar and Obama: Lying, dissembling, partisan, CYA-determined crapweasels.” From WSJ: Before the Obama Administration sweeps under the carpet the controversy over the drilling experts it falsely used to justify its moratorium, the incident bears another look. Not least because it underlines the purely political nature of a drilling ban that now threatens the Gulf Coast economy and drilling safety. When President Obama last month announced his six-month

— Which, I wonder if this means they finally got around to reading the thing? Frankly, the only proper response for Arizona at this point is to tell the Feds to fuck the fucking fuck off — and tell Obama that if he wants to stop them from protecting their own borders, he should send some troops down to police those citizens who are hoping to police those own borders,