Greece and its social travails too foreign to you? Too Mediterranean? Well, then try this. And then ask yourself, isn’t it best to skip the middle “sofa” stages of such a social trajectory and just start the reform now — before “students” begin taking to the street to protest the end of “benefits” that are really no more than “free shit the government provides in exchange for voting left”…? (h/t

After supposedly conceding that Obama would concede tax cuts: Senior White House adviser David Axelrod said this morning that President Obama has not caved to GOP demands on the extension of the Bush tax cuts, despite a report to the contrary. “We’re willing to discuss how we move forward,” Axelrod said in an e-mail to National Journal rebutting the Huffington Post story, “but we believe that it’s imperative to extend

So says the AP. Me, I say the administration purposely doctored the report, cost (at least) 12000 people their jobs, and should be held in criminal contempt in Louisiana for suggesting to a court that the scientific data supported a moratorium on drilling — a suggestion that, in addition to costing many workers their jobs, had to further effect of chasing business from America to other countries, like Egypt or

“You’re our only hope…”*

That’s what the Democrats will do. Yup. Illinois Republican Mark Kirk won’t be seated in the U.S. Senate in time for the start of the lame duck session of Congress this month — unlike two other newly elected senators. The session begins Nov. 15. But state officials say the paperwork officially declaring Kirk the winner of the Senate race won’t be delivered until Nov. 29. That should still allow Kirk

Byron York: There’s been a lot of talk about Republican plans to subject the Obama administration to strict oversight once the new GOP House majority takes office. Most of the discussion has focused on Rep. Darrell Issa, head of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which is the main panel charged with keeping the administration in line. “I’m going to be doing a lot of investigating,” says Issa. That’s

Or racist, white-male nativist temper tantrums irrationally aimed at a Black Man? Hard to tell, really.

WSJ Law Blog: Oklahoma City federal Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange, set a Nov. 22 hearing to consider whether the Save Our State Amendment violates the U.S. Constitution. Until then, she issued a temporary restraining order preventing the state Election Board from certifying State Question 755, which passed by 70 percent last week. The measure directs state courts to ignore “legal precepts of other nations or cultures” and specifically forbids consideration of

Giddy from the GOP takeover of the House and enormous gains in state assemblies and governorships? Excited that classical liberalism seems to be sweeping the nation like a freedom plague? Ecstatic that Lindsey Graham and John McCain seem old or feeble or feckless or confused? Well, that was all me. Pony up. **** update: Thanks to those several of you who’ve contributed this month. I’m still quite far off my