Besides, like, you know, nobody? Washington Examiner, “Here comes more failed stimulus spending”: President Obama will deliver yet another “major speech” after he returns from his Martha’s Vineyard vacation. Among other things, he promises the speech will contain details of a new “stimulus plan” for getting America’s stagflating economy back on the right track. According to the Washington Post, “Obama also plans to announce a major push for new deficit

Here’s the thing about progressive media “truths”: seldom they can withstand direct confrontation with aggregated and rigorously parsed fact, properly and unapologetically presented. And that’s because to the left, “truths” are the product of perception and consensus — what they can create, by convincing reasonable people of the viability of their constructed claims — and this kind of will to power only works if you’re able to marginalize reason and

National Journal: “I wouldn’t necessarily trust any of my opponents right now, who were on a recent debate stage with me, when every single one of them would have allowed this country to default,” Huntsman told Jake Tapper on ABC News’s This Week. “You can imagine, even given the uncertainty of the marketplace the last several days and the last couple of weeks, if we had defaulted for the first

Surprisingly, that “worst-case 2012 scenario” doesn’t refer to gangs of Jesus-crazed redneck TEA Party zombies roaming the countryside, eating the barbecued brains of kindhearted progressives whose only crime was trying to dole out social justice. James Pethokoukis: When American presidents win reelection, they usually win by a heftier margin than the first time around. Narrower victories are rare, just three or four depending if you’re looking at the electoral or

Utopian thinking runs headlong into reality. Again. CNS News: The Obama Administration’s new fuel economy standards will cause the retail price of average motor vehicles to increase over $11,000, according to a study conducted by the Center for Automotive Research. “A fuel economy standard of 37.6 mpg is associated with a price increase of $5,244, 18.1 percent higher than the 2009 National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) average price of $28,966.

Fine. The King gave them their chance to vote on social justice and they failed. Now he’ll just have to do it himself. And if that means he risks pissing off some of the nobles, so be it. “Jan Brewer: Obama plan is ‘backdoor amnesty’”: Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer called the Obama administration’s new policy that will allow many illegal immigrants who don’t have criminal records the chance to stay

WTF! (Or, without the irony, wtf?) CNS: A proposed federal health insurance regulation set to take effect next year requires insurers to provide consumers with explanatory summaries of their plans, but the insurance industry contends this could be costly to enrollees, and offer little benefit. The new rule – part of the $1 trillion Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare – was announced Wednesday by Donald

The Washington Examiner’s Timothy Carney on Rick Perry: “I’m a pro-business governor — I don’t make any apologies about it,” Rick Perry told the crowds in Iowa this week. He’s right, but we can get more specific. Perry is pro-Merck, pro-Boeing, pro-Mesa Wind, pro-Texas Instruments, pro-Convergen, and pro-dozens of businesses that donate to his campaigns and hire his aides as lobbyists. Perry promises to “get Americans back to work,” but

Lies of Aug 17, Wyffels Hybrids Production Facility, Atkinson, Illinois. Lies told, exposed and repeated anyway are omitted. You know, this downgrade that happened, they didn’t downgrade us because America couldn’t pay its bills. They downgraded it because they felt that our political system couldn’t seem to make good decisions in order to deal with our budget the same way families deal with their budgets. This is a lie. They

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