Feel that rush of sweet warm air, tinged with the smell of peonies? That’s the Arab Spring — and Barack Husein Obama gave that to the world!* Of course, the EPA will need to regulate the excesss greenhouse gas emissions. And somebody’s going to have to clean up all the dead Jews. But still! —

First, it’s odd when you look out of your office window during a sudden rainstorm and see a pair of wild turkeys galloping through your yard. That is, it’s odd if live in an area not traditionally associated with wild turkey foot traffic. As I do. And second, it’s odd when, having blurted out your surprise at seeing a pair of wild turkeys galloping through your yard in a sudden

Lock box! Starting in 2010, Social Security began to permanently spend more than it takes in. This is by far the most important year. From now on, Social Security will require large and growing amounts of general revenue money in order to pay all of its promised benefits. Even though this money will technically come from cashing in the special issue bonds in the trust fund, the money to repay

ALG examines the Bureau of Labor Statistics report for April and finds some troubling dissonance: […] bad news in the employment report was overshadowed by the contradictory claim in the report that 244,000 new private sector jobs were created by the economy in April. While I wish the economy had grown by almost a quarter of a million jobs, it is hard to reconcile this number with the reality of

“The IRS Gets Political,” WSJ: We’re starting to see a pattern here. Since the Supreme Court restored the First Amendment rights of businesses and unions in last year’s Citizens United ruling, Democrats have been searching for a way to claw back control over political speech. The latest bureau to get the memo is the Internal Revenue Service, which may retroactively tax top donors to political advocacy groups. In the crossroads,

WaPo: If your response to this is that it’s crazy and offensive, that all American adults are equal and so is their vote, you might want to familiarize yourself with the U.S. Senate, where a Wyoming resident’s vote is worth almost 70 times as much as a Californian’s, or the electoral college, where the presidency could be won by a candidate who loses the popular vote 4:1. All of which

VDH: We have had about a half-century of racial preferences and often unspoken but real quotas for hiring and admission based on racial identity. If the original intent was to level the playing field for African-Americans and Latinos, who had been subject to systematic and often gratuitously mean discrimination throughout much of the American South and Southwest, nonetheless the current rationale for sustaining affirmative action has become a veritable nightmare

Screw the rich! (Unless, like, they’re our rich. In which case, cater to them). “Nearly 20 percent of new Obamacare waivers are gourmet restaurants, nightclubs, fancy hotels in Nancy Pelosi’s district”: Of the 204 new Obamacare waivers President Barack Obama’s administration approved in April, 38 are for fancy eateries, hip nightclubs and decadent hotels in House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s Northern California district. That’s in addition to the 27 new

Dr Leon Friedman, professor of law, Hofstra, writing at the Huffington Post: Of course, Congress must rely on the specific words of the Constitution as a basis for any legislation, as the Republicans and the Tea Party insists. But those broad words — “general welfare” “regulate commerce” — must be read in accordance with the economic reality of our time, not the time in which the Constitution was ratified. The

Actual grass-roots opposition — as opposed to the staged optics meant to create perceptions that don’t really jibe with reality — is difficult, and requires actual widespread opposition. — Which, like allowing voters to decide shit, can get messy. Best to have the deck stacked. FOR FREEDOM! Area MoveOn members will rally inside and outside a town hall meeting Representative West is holding on May17 to protest the Representative’s recent