GOP caves: The agreement would cut $37.67 billion from the 2010 budget and keep intact funding to Planned Parenthood, sources from both parties told ABC News. “We protected the investments we need to win the future,” President Obama said after the deal was struck. “At the same time, we also made sure at the end of the day this was a debate about spending cuts — not social issues like

This just keeps getting better and better! Writes the story’s author in the comments: I posted this article and chart at 12:24 a.m. on election night, using data handed to me from the City of Brookfield clerk’s office, not from Waukesha County. Lots of confusion about this. This came straight from the city ON election night. These are the results County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus said today that she failed to

From Big Government, a little background on Moran: Moran has a history of anger issues. For example, in 2000 Moran stooped as low to accuse an 8-year boy, who was a straight-A student, of trying to steal his car. During the incident, Moran began choking and cursing at him. He later said the boy claimed he had a gun on him. He didn’t. The child also told the police he

Sent to me by an interested observer, here is David Post, writing at Volokh, in a debate with Caroline Alexander over the propriety of using an inscription from Virgil for a planned 911 memorial. Objecting to Alexander’s argument that Virgil’s line has a specific meaning, and that said meaning doesn’t quite jibe with the purposes of the memorial inscription, Post writes: Sorry, but Caroline Alexander does not get to decide

Wait, what…? … … NO WAR FOR OIL! Of course, on the plus side, if the TEA Party manages a government shutdown, at least we won’t have to pay our soldiers, the imperialist baby killers. So there’s that.

Ian Murray at CEI wants more. While praising the Ryan blueprint as “the only serious proposal out there to get America’s finances back in order,” Murray offers a few notes: […] as Margaret Thatcher found in the UK during the 1980s, spending is only half the battle. The nature of the bureaucratic beast is that it will expand again. That’s why President Reagan’s simplification of the Tax Code wore off,

The netroots are ginning up a facebook and Twitter campaign to dump trash on House Speaker John Boehner’s yard. Which, I’m pretty sure, is a crime. And just plain sad. — Not to mention that in advertising it, organizers Nolan Treadway and Jonah Goodman have made it easier for law enforcement to find at least two of the culprits! #winning!

Prosser: “That’s right. How y’all like me now? Bitches.”*

Cutting out federal funding of Planned Parenthood appears to be the sticking point of a budget compromise that would take cuts down to around $40 or so billion — though we can’t rule out resistance to checks on the EPA as the major contributing factor to Democrat recalcitrance. Both Obama and Biden have previously voted for the very “woman’s health” rider they’re now decrying as unnecessarily “ideological”. The thing is,