And we wouldn’t want to do that until after Obama is re-elected. So thanks for the heads up there, chief! Regulation of greenhouse gasses by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could reverse the very modest economic recovery and even send it back into a recession, a report from the National Center for Public Policy Research finds. “These regulations,” author Dana Joel Gattuso wrote, “will have a more severe impact on

VDH: President Obama yesterday praised Brazil for its new offshore oil industry and said he wants to buy as much oil as possible in this new win-win partnership — although we have piled up $5 trillion in new debt, curtailed new petroleum exploration off shore and in the West, as well as kept Alaska off-limits. Our near-term energy future apparently lies in borrowing money to buy oil from those we

…and get right to outlawing conservatism in Wisconsin? And if that doesn’t work, you can always vote them into slavery, or perhaps move them into camps. Anything to get back to the good old days of freedom! If only the US were more like China. (thanks to Mr B)

…only bullies will get to determine what truth is and how it’s told. I’ve been warning people about this for years, this move toward a surreal authoritarian “tolerance” designed to keep us fearful and uninformed — even describing how it’s made to work, right down to the happy-sounding hermeneutic assumptions that allow it entry into our epistemology (we have “democratized” interpretation, freeing meaning from the tyranny of the author! Yay

From Doug Ross. The only thing I’d change is the valediction. Instead of “sincerely”, which, while fine, is a bit tepid, I’d have tried something with a dash more immediacy, like, say, “FOR CHRISSAKES, WAKE THE FUCK UP!” But then I’m told I have a very direct manner. Which isn’t to everyone’s taste. Clearly.

So. Did I call Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Patrick Frey an anti-semite, as those commenting at his site continue to suggest? You be the judge. But do keep in mind that these posts were in direct response to Frey’s own posts publicly vetting Stacy McCain for what Frey decided may or may not be racist thought crimes/racist behaviors sometime in his (perhaps and potentially) racist past that Mr McCain

The most bang-on political assessment I’ve read coming out of the mainstream conservative opinion sites in quite some time. Michael Walsh, NRO: Is anyone surprised that a local judge has issued a temporary restraining order against . . . well, against Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican party of Wisconsin? Yes, a mighty jurist in Dane County with the Dickensian name of Maryann Sumi has halted publication of the new

come tumbling down. Rumblin’ crumblin’ down.