The House GOP establishment celebrated its hard-fought $6 billion budget cut on a day in which the US government spent $72 billion. Optics and conservative-pitched rhetoric remain all that is important to these elected show ponies — and at least the GOP House leadership believes we’ll be satisfied that they are doing all they can to satisfy the mandate Americans gave them in November. When of course they are not.

Just a guy Obama knew from the neighborhood. Who also happened to write the book that so many in the political class, both left and right, swooned over on their way to helping install the least vetted — and most demonstrably leftist — “historical” President in US history. Jack Cashill: Last Thursday evening at Montclair State University, with a video camera rolling, Bill Ayers volunteered that yes indeed he had

True, Professor Brian Kiteley reacted as if I’d called for Biblehumping hicks to take up arms against their more polished and civilized betters, but what I’d actually predicted was a soft civil war that would manifest through changes in demographics, with people self-separating by geographical locale along political and public policy lines. And it looks like I may have been on to something. Michael Barone, writing in the Washington Examiner,

sales lady at Nordstrom: “Okay, well, what kind of socks are you looking for, exactly? We have traditional white athletic socks in this department, or we have a variety of colored socks –” me: “– RACIST! –” sales lady at Nordstrom: “– that we display separately –” me: “– JIM CROW! HATE!” sales lady at Nordstrom: me: sales lady at Nordstrom: me: me: “So, does this place have a lunch

RIP, Ms Ferraro: Geraldine Ferraro, who in 1984 became the first woman vice presidential candidate on a major party ticket, died Saturday in Boston, a family spokeswoman said. Ferraro died at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she was being treated for blood cancer. She died just before 10 a.m., said Amanda Fuchs Miller, a family friend who worked for Ferraro in her 1998 Senate bid and was acting as a spokeswoman

Sledgehammer deadlift: take a sledgehammer with a handle of at least 31″ (most standard hammers are 32-33″). Lay the sledgehammer on the ground, hammerhead end farthest from you with striking surfaces positioned straight up and down. Standing parallel to the hammer and facing the hammer’s head, grab the end of the hammer’s handle farthest from the head, at about 31″ up the handle. Lift the sledgehammer up so that it

Boehner may be cowering heap of heavily tanned fail, but at least McConnell seems to be heading in the right direction of late. Human Events: The Senate Republicans are preparing to tell President Obama that they want a Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA) to the Constitution passed in Congress in exchange for raising the statuary debt ceiling above $14.2 trillion. “My hope is that we would force a vote on a

Me, I see the benefit of telling them to get bent. Or get rid of the gasoline taxes that are already supposed to be paying for highway maintenance and the like. Our freedoms are being taken away one new “mandate” at a time. From CNS: A new Congressional Budget Office study says taxing motorists based on the number of miles they drive would be a fair and “efficient” way to