Writing in Reason, Jon Basil Utley lays out “eight areas where the environmental extremists hope to wreak havoc on the American economy.” Behold just how tightly the bureaucratic fourth estate controls and constrains business and industry, creating precisely the kind of centralized control economy we sometimes pretend we’re forestalling once we elect a few fiscal conservatives to the House or to state assemblies. The next phase in the war for

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…”*