It’s bad enough Hollywood remade Planet of the Apes. And The Omen. And what they did to Bad News Bears they should never, ever, ever be forgiven for. The Mechanic remake? Why? Walking Tall? Again, why? And now this, which, frankly, may just be the worst insult of all… Or, well, the second worse.

To be clear: The following statistics are all a form of archconservative Visigothery, and as such I find them invasive and unhelpful and wish they would just shut up, being fundamentally unelectable and extreme: Government dependence, which is defined as the percentage of persons receiving one or more federal benefit payments, is at a staggering 47%, its highest level in American history, while 21 million households are reliant on food

“TEBOW, TEBOW, TEBOW!”, etc.

…but these kinds of stories — of petty tyrannies and civic bullying — really chap my sack. One of the things I disagree with Mark Levin most strongly about is his knee-jerk lionization of law enforcement officers, whom he refers to as “better than the rest of us.” Some may be (and probably are). But others are not. And many are worse than the average Gap clerk or insurance salesman.

So says the National Journal. And I guess we’re going to have to take their word for it, since the actual poll isn’t linked in the piece: Despite deepening doubts about President Obama’s economic agenda, Americans generally prefer the proposals he offered last week for reviving the economy to the competing ideas advanced by congressional Republicans and the GOP’s 2012 presidential field, a United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll has