1. Molly Ringwald and Emilio Estevez must be busier these days than I thought. 2. Yes, your nostrils get even larger as you age. Either that, or I spent the 80s deceiving myself about Judd Nelson. 3. You can never have too much Wang Chung. 4.

“Overreaching on Gay Marriage,” Steve Chapman, Reason: What the federal court decision in favor of same-sex marriage will do for gay couples and their children is heartening and welcome. What it will do for our law and politics—well, that’s a different story, and a dismal one. If I favored a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, I would have considered Wednesday a very good day. When a judge in California found

Michael Barone: There are some obvious targets for Republicans if they win big this year. Democrats have jacked up domestic spending sharply; some reversal should be possible. The many glitches in Obamacare, some apparent now and others as yet undiscovered, could form a basis for derailment if not repeal. Giveaways to labor unions, like the $26 billion package for the teacher unions which the House is to be summoned back

The answer? $26.1 billion in new “stimulus” spending, naturally. Well, that — and the continued threat of social democrats in their legislative death throes taking over industry or bureaucratizing / taxing it into paralysis. Oh. And just so’s it gets mentioned somewhere: the unemployment rate among 16-19-year olds now stands at 26.1% — an increase of nearly 4.5%. Which, hey: at least we’ve found the raw material for that Obama