Keep an eye out. If Christie starts demanding that his local Taco Bell post National Guardsmen at the doors to prevent illegals from assembling bean burritos, he’s almost certainly planning on running for President. Which is great. But for my money, I’m more excited by the prospect of Sarah Palin on a Harley Fat Boy announcing that she’s getting in to take America back, Easy Rider style. (h/t Rush Limbaugh)

No growth, an ever-expanding federal Leviathan, a diminution of individual liberty, crony capitalism, high unemployment, profligate spending, and a disjointed foreign policy that seems to favor framing events after they’ve happened? All black things, I guess. Making my pointing out that the employment rate among black men is at a record low under this administration akin to donning my hood for a kind of rhetorical lynching.

Wait, you mean states are allowed to protect themselves against criminal behavior? Who knew? The Supreme Court on Thursday gave Arizona and other states more authority to take action against illegal immigrants and the companies that hire them, ruling that employers who knowingly hire illegal workers can lose their license to do business. The 5-3 decision upholds the Legal Arizona Workers Act of 2007 and its so-called business death penalty

Washington Examiner: The Peterson Foundation’s Solutions Initiative brought together six think tanks — two conservative, two liberal and two centrist — and challenged each to present a detailed plan to solve our fiscal crisis-in-waiting, using the same uniform assumptions. Because everyone had to begin with the same set of facts, and everyone had to war-game the same budget scenario over the coming decade and beyond, the typical demagoguery that surrounds

But fuck it. I didn’t become a judge to protect the status quo. Being a liberal judge means protecting the people, and in this case, it means protecting the people — who accidentally installed a conservative into the statehouse — from themselves. Or, to put it another way, THE LAW BELONGS TO ME! Now. Bow before me, bitches!

Republican Response: Ryan plan, which doesn’t affect those currently receiving Medicare benefits, and phases in a platinum plan for seniors similar to that given to members of Congress. Democrat (and Newt Gingrich) response: We got nothing. But PAUL RYAN AND THE GOP WANT TO KILL OLD PEOPLE! LIKE, DEAD! And our side can’t win the messaging battle on this issue? From the Trustees report: In past reports, and again this

Whereas Scott Brown? Can go suck a dick.

First, this: Appearing on Laura Ingrahams’s show this morning, George Will made the following observations (paraphrased): 1) Despite what the polls are saying, there are only 3 top tier Republican candidates remaining for the 2012 GOP Presidential nomination: Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, and John Huntsman (in a Gallup poll released today, Pawlenty is at 6% and Huntsman at 2%; Sarah Palin, meanwhile, gets 15% and Herman Cain 8%). Romney, you