Jim Lindgren, writing at Volokh: […] there is a 1971 Opinion of the Wisconsin Attorney General that determined that a bill changing collective bargaining rights was not a fiscal statute under the constitution and did not require a three-fifths quorum. Thus the Republican senators do not need the presence of the Democrats to pass the most controversial parts of Wisconsin Senate Bill 11. […] […] in State v. Stitt (1983),

So. I’ve been looking around for a fair-sized slice of the American money pie, and it turns out it’s been crudely Saran-wrapped and tucked away in one of several overstuffed dessert freezers in this fat fuck’s Manhattan apartment. Probably has a bunch more of my pie squirreled away at his Michigan beach house, too. Time to eat,* I say. ROAD TRIP!

From the Blaze and Rush Limbaugh. Quick. Somebody email this off to Professor Brian Kiteley. So he can haughtily distance himself from civil rights activists, consumer advocates, and small college speaking circuits. BECAUSE OF THE FRINGE EXTREMISM!

— Whereby “post-racial” has been re-imagined, through the magic of progressive linguistic slippage, to mean “absolutely obsessed with race, and willing to use frequent and disingenuous charges of racism as a shield against any and all criticisms in the hope that doing so will shame critics into frightened silence; gin up ‘faux outrage’ against such critics among the culturally sanctimonious; and compel ‘pragmatists’ in the opposing ideological camp to counsel

CNS News: A Lebanese-based radical cleric notorious for his fiery sermons and support for jihad soon will deliver a fatwa regarding “U.S. intervention in Muslim lands,” according to a controversial Islamist group that says it plans to hold a pro-shari’a demonstration at the White House on Thursday. A Web site promoting Thursday’s so-called “Shariah4America” rally says the fatwa – an Islamic religious injunction – will be delivered by Omar Bakri

Time to face facts. We’re doomed: Less than a quarter of Americans support making significant cuts to Social Security or Medicare to tackle the country’s mounting deficit, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, illustrating the challenge facing lawmakers who want voter buy-in to alter entitlement programs. A new WSJ/NBC poll shows Americans do not approve of the government slashing Social Security and Medicaid to reduce the nation’s