Reached for comment, Michele Obama blamed the skyrocketing national debt on “gun-crazed white people and cheeseburgers, and probably more than a little bit of Jesus.” For the first time in my life, I’m really proud of my country.

Mark Hemingway, Washington Examiner: A new Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) rule taking effect in December requires greater transparency for union pension plans and threatens to bankrupt organized labor. In order to survive, unions need a bailout and fast. This presents a political problem — if unions go bankrupt, so do Democrats. Eleven of the top 20 largest political contributors are labor unions, and nearly all of that money is

Sensing a potential crisis, Obama quickly moves to nationalize tanning beds and tax summer picnics. For the children.

VDH: Americans do not like being lectured at, much less when those sermons are misdirected and lead to higher taxes, the creation of a preachy, Ivy-League overseeing class, and legions of federal employees whose prime directive is to vote in more politicians that give them more money with less accountability. […] Are you disappointed with Barack Obama’s leadership so far, and worried about building an Islamic center near the site

More than 3-weeks on, and I woke this morning with a temperature of 100.1. I’m sure some of it has to do with stress and lack of sleep, but still. Time to go to the doctor, I think. Back later.

Coming off one of the worst pick weeks I’ve ever had (5/13), I hope to redeem myself this weekend. But I’m not counting on it. Let’s see what sleep deprivation does to picking football games: Chicago over Seattle (Seattle is on the road, and the Chicago defense is pretty good. I think the Bears are a lucky 4-1 team, but they shouldn’t need luck this week) NE over Baltimore (Baltimore

Over the years here longtime visitors have read me refer to the “institutionalization” of leftist epistemology as the social catalyst in an attack on the foundational tenets of classical liberalism (and so on our country itself) — beginning with certain kernel assumptions about how language functions to determine meaning in an interpretative exchange, and moving on to critiques of the lynchpins of leftist academic thought, from Said’s Orientalism (whose foundational

For many, the number 1 issue in 2010 is jobs. What to do? Understand how jobs are created. Correctly diagnose why jobs are not being created. Correctly prescribe a solution. Develop a national consensus that the proposed solution will work. Start to execute the plan. Adapt to changing circumstances and sustain the commitment to and execution of the plan. At each of these steps, confidence improves, leading to business expansion,

Posing as a reporter from a San Francisco newspaper, Deb Frisch — probably by going through the entirety of the Baltimore phone book, cold calling everyone with my last name [update: looks like she paid for the info]– located my mother this evening, and threatened her and the rest of my family over the phone. She mentioned me and my son by name, and spewed a stream of profanities that

If absence makes the heart grow fonder, why do the mice play so much when the cat is away? Or do the Germans not want us to even ask such questions…? … Also, ObamaCare.