WSJ: Debates over taxes and spending are at root about political philosophy: How big should government be? How much income should it redistribute, and to whom? We mention this to explain why today’s report from President Obama’s deficit commission is landing with such a predictable political thud. This doesn’t mean that Co-Chairmen Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles haven’t offered some useful ideas, much better ideas overall than we feared. As

Yeah. Who didn’t see this coming. Or this. As the UN goes, here’s my position: Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

I intimated this in an earlier post, but here’s a bit more to chew on. From F. Vincent Vernuccio, writing in The Daily Caller: While Obama’s plan would stop the annual across-the-board cost of living adjustment (COLA) for all federal workers, it will not stop workers from getting raises altogether. The freeze will not affect pay raises for job classification upgrades. As an official at the Office of Management and

Bloomberg: Employers added fewer jobs than forecast in November and the unemployment rate unexpectedly rose, underscoring the Federal Reserve’s decision to pump more money into the economy to spur growth. Payrolls increased 39,000, less than the most pessimistic projection of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News, after a revised 172,000 increase the prior month, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington. The jobless rate rose to 9.8 percent, the highest since