I’m not familiar with Jim Lacey, but I can tell you this much: he gets it. NRO: If our best days truly are before us, we must release those willing to dare all and let them get to it. Government has a role in society, but it is a limited one. Over the last 50 years, American government has ignored the limits it was founded on and become a pervasive

Would it be all, like, Visigothy of me to suggest we’re living in a soft tyranny that is practicing to become a more seasoned, respectably hard tyranny…? (thanks to Entropy)

Is it doable? Who knows. It’s certainly possible, however difficult. But more importantly, it’s a goal that appeals to growth, prosperity, exceptionalism, and American industriousness and optimism. That is, a “Yes we can” that those of us who don’t favor larger government, decreased individual freedom, and the new normal of “social justice” that promises to punish the successful and “raise up” the unproductive — that is, to stoke class envy

NRD: Just one day after House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan explained to the President what his proposal to save Medicare entails, and Majority Leader Cantor urged the Democrats to quit demogoguing the issue, former Speaker Pelosi told ABC News, “What we want is to change the view that the Republicans have that it is OK to abolish Medicare [and] to make seniors pay more for less while we give

Breaking Back: Who the fuck cares? No, really, that wasn’t even a rhetorical question this time. Who the fuck actually cares? And shouldn’t we be allowed to hunt them for sport — humanely — so that they don’t become overpopulated and helpless and wind up confusedly bumping into display cases and shelving in supermarkets?

“Marin turtle’s trek has biologists amazed”: A western pond turtle appears to have made an incredible journey across Marin County in the past two years, traveling some 18 miles and making his way around large dams on a trek from Ross to near Point Reyes Station. […] Point Reyes National Seashore herpetologist Gary Fellers said it is possible for a western pond turtle to travel several miles. “It is within

…dick: It was a low-profile race, but Weiner attracted positive reviews, aggressively campaigning and using his performer’s flair to steal the show at debates and candidate forums. But as the all-important Sept. 10 Democratic primary approached, the consensus was that he’d come up short and that, as Newsday put it in an editorial endorsing one of his opponents, he should “try again next time.” * Continue reading It was at