A sop to moderation and the joys (and necessities) of compromising principles, courtesy the Hoover Institute’s Peter Berkowitz. I’m not going to spend much time on this because frankly I don’t have to. I’ll leave that to Rush Limbaugh and the rest. Instead, here’s all you need to know about Berkowitz’s argument, distilled to its kernel assertion: the end game in political engagments is winning, using moderation as a tactic

Alan Krueger, Obama’s pick for head of the Council of Economic Advisors? Wanted to unionize prisoners. Not only that, but according to Bill Wilson, President of Americans for Limited Government, Krueger “has even supported paying the minimum wage and overtime to prisoners. This is the man that is supposed to turn our broken economy around?” Allow me to answer that for you, Bill. That’s not the objective. Once you understand

An investment. By the Chinese. In American make-work jobs and extended unemployment benefits. For the People! Because let’s face it: Obama can’t be expected to Win the Future™ without first buying off the present, deploying yet more government-directed intrusions into the free market, mostly by way of confiscated private sector funds that that same government will have already spent on accrued interest on the debt within the first hundred days

Interesting bit from geoffB, in re: the “Washington Insider” update to this post. From geoff: Two new things popped up on the “Fast and Furious” investigation which lend some credibility to his idea that Holder will be gone before long. There was another operation in Indiana, “Gangwalker”, supplying guns to gangs. The apparent purpose of the operation was to lend the thinnest veneer of truth to the 90-percent lie spread

Hope and Change! The percentage of American adults who lack health insurance coverage has not only increased during the presidency of Barack Obama, but it has continued to increase since Obama signed his signature piece of legislation last year mandating that by 2014 every American carry health insurance, according to a Gallup survey released today. In 2008, when George W. Bush was president, according to Gallup, 14.9 percent of adult

protein wisdom summarizes: If you build it as a government dig some big holes, they the workers will come fill them in for a reasonable, living wage, and in so doing, become productive citizens who pay taxes and provide the government with the revenue necessary to take care of you in a way you simply aren’t capable of taking care of yourselves.* Media Matters responds: “Hey! You EDITED that unfairly,

Here’s the thing most people don’t think about when they think about eternity: It lasts. A fucking. Eternity. And as much as I don’t want to seem ungrateful for the digs, if all Heaven has to offer is 6 cable channels, every last one of them airing season 9 M*A*S*H re-runs 24/7, please, please, please give me an endless diet of Swanson Salisbury Steak frozen dinners and nighttime visits from

Obama and Wasserman Schultz, along with a good portion of the mainstream press, may want to keep silent on Hoffa Jr’s taxpayer funded assault on the American taxpayer, but that doesn’t mean Sister Sarah will: To the same degree Americans are concerned about irresponsible, greedy corporate execs who got cushy bonuses from taxpayer-funded bailouts, we should also be concerned about greedy union bosses who are willing to tank our economy

And why would they? It’s not like TEA Party types are going to vote Democrat in 2012, right? So fuck the bitterclinging hicks right in their god-fearing squeakholes. This is the new fundamentally transformed United States. We do pay for play here, bitches.

These “son of a bitches” being, of course, the Tea Partiers, who, per Jimmy Hoffa Jr, warming up the crowd for the President of (the organized labor half) of the US, Barack Obama: “We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers. And you see it everywhere, it is the Tea Party. And you know, there is only one way to beat and