EAT THE RICH: The first column shows that the top 10 percent of households in the U.S. pays 45.1 percent of all income taxes (both personal income and payroll taxes combined) in the country. Italy is the only other country in which the top 10 percent of households pays more than 40 percent of the income tax burden (42.2%). Meanwhile, the average tax burden for the top decile of households

Obama: “Fuck it. What’s say we ditch and go to the beach? It ain’t like the school won’t be there when we get back…”* **** update: “And don’t worry. I know somebody who can get us both fake doctor’s notes, no problem.”

Meh. You gotta break a few eggs, right? Because it ain’t like we’re just going to surrender our jobs, along with the liberty that comes with economic independence. So. Nudge nudge! For social justice!

It’s simple, really: enrage leftists (protecting their anti-war cred); tack toward transnationalism by suggesting that the UN is leading here and that this is how it should be, with the military to be used for humanitarian intervention rather than out of something so crass as sovereign interests; all the while, try to win back independents by showing you are willing to break from your own base (which we know to

WSJ: You read that headline correctly. Unfortunately, the Obama Administration is financing oil exploration off Brazil. The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil’s Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. Brazil’s planning minister confirmed that White House National Security Adviser James Jones met this month with Brazilian officials

It hasn’t helped a soul, those who pushed for it most are the ones being exempted, and yet the claims that it will create jobs and reduce the deficit — surreal claims on their face and of course not backed by any credible accounting — are still being pushed. But don’t worry. Our GOP leadership in the House is working tirelessly to get 2% cut from a deficit budget for

From the Blaze (h/t Pablo) and Naked Emperor News: Cloward-Piven 2.0. What we’re witnessing is an organized attempt at initiating a soft coup in the United States by way of a socialist cabal. Michael Medved might not like to hear this; Bill O’Reilly and Bernie Goldberg likely won’t, either — concerned, as they both are, about the “rightwing” “bash Obama” industry (which isn’t helping “the folks”); Jeb Bush surely doesn’t,