Yeah? Well some say the feeling is mutual. And some are determined to move the GOP back toward conservatism and classical liberalism, and away from the kind of “maverick” pragmatism that has, when coupled with the soft socialism of today’s left, crippled the currency, the economy, the job market, and public confidence in the government to do anything more than enslave them.

President Obama’s 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Susan Carney has, well, issues with honesty.

Irony may not be dead, but it is wheezing quite a bit, and I don’t like it’s color: President Obama’s only event at the White House that isn’t closed to the press on Wednesday is a ceremony in which he’ll accept an award for being open to the press. According to his public schedule, Obama has four behind-closed-doors meetings from 10 a.m. to 3:05 p.m.: his daily briefing, a talk

The TEA Party spoke. And the GOP House members listened. They just didn’t hear. The current GOP leadership fears a government shut down because they fear what such a thing would do to their re-election chances. They think getting a ~ 2% cut on the proposed budget in exchange for upping the debt ceiling can — while keeping the government open for business — is a big win, optically speaking.

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From World Nuclear News: All four units at the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant have now achieved cold shutdown – where coolant water is at less than 100ºC – with full operation of cooling systems, Tepco reported. All the reactors shut down automatically during last week’s earthquake and have remained safe. While unit 3’s shutdown went as expected, damage to the emergency core cooling systems of units 1, 2 and

At Newsweek Mark McKinnon and Ezra Klein write on “Do we Still need Unions” Yes or No. A topic obviously picked because of the events in Wisconsin over the past few weeks. Events revolving around the power of public sector unions over governments and over the taxpayers who pay for all their wages and benefits. Mr. McKinnion lays out the case for eliminating the power of public sector unions. Concluding

Implementation and funding continue apace. The CR passed 271-158, with 54 Republicans voting “Nay.”*

WSJ: Yesterday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee began debating a bill that would prohibit the EPA from abusing the clean air laws of the 1970s to impose the climate regulations that Congress has refused to pass despite President Obama’s entreaties. As EPA chief Lisa Jackson put it with her customary reserve at a hearing last week, the measure “would presume to overrule the scientific community on the scientific finding