Because honestly, who needs transparent representative government when a group of lawmakers can get what they want pushed through a “Supercommittee” that is itself an abomination of the legislative process? Thanks, Speaker Boehner! We couldn’t have created such a permanent governing class without you! Now. Get your asses in line and support Romney, TEA Party pains in the ass! The GOP has tax revenues it would like to manage for

This illustrates precisely why we can’t count on politicians and bureaucrats and regulators to police themselves. It likewise shows how, once you expand government, it is nearly impossible to contract it without a complete and, dare I say, fundamental transformation, of the political culture. Which is what the TEA Party proposes. Not coincidentally. Cato: Perhaps no failure was as avoidable as that of the Bernie Madoff scheme. After all outside

Let the defensiveness and spinning begin! A teacher who took her students to see Occupy Denver said she brought her class to see what was happening. “We came to observe,” said teacher Celia Bard when questioned by a blogger in a video posted on YouTube. — And by “observe,” she means have students shout, along with the Occupy Denver group leader (himself very concerned about the precious bodily fluids of

And with this, the SCOTUS has become officially politicized, and has lost its mandate, so far as I’m concerned. We live in tyranny.

When the erstwhile establishment feminists have lost a post-feminist feminist Journalism professor willing to tell them so in the NYT, well, that can only mean one thing: CAT FIGHT! After all these years, we are again debating the definition of unwanted sexual advances and parsing the question of whether a dirty joke in the office is a crime. Conservatives have mocked the seriousness of sexual harassment; liberal and mainstream pundits

CNS News: The U.S. Department of Justice is refusing to comply with a request from the House Judiciary Committee to provide the committee with documents and witness interviews that the committee believes, as Chairman Lamar Smith (R.-Texas) put it in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, would allow the panel “to properly understand any involvement by Justice Kagan in matters relating to health care legislation or litigation while she

…here you go. I almost feel sad for these women. I mean, I thought the whole idea was to ward off unwanted attention — not to paint it up, stuff it in pumps, and drag it out in front of the cameras once a week.

Of course they do. Legitimately, too: after all, they’re being paid to advertise for the federal government and its programs, so why shouldn’t they be paid. I mean, they’re whores, not sluts. Show some respect.

Newt Gingrich Co-Sponsored the 1987 Pro-Fairness Doctrine Bill. Now sure, people evolve. And political positions change, oftentimes for reasons that have less to do with expediency than they do a very laudable intellectual reconsideration. Having said that, my concern with Newt was and continues to be that he is simply too clever by half. And his kernel argument seems always to be that, because a particular position is currently favored

Allah is already Tweeting that we’re going to lose this, having lost Judge Silberman, a staunch Reagan appointee. Me, I’m not so sure. Silberman based his ruling on Wickard, and even the Administration had, in other venues, given up the particular line of argument that runs through an already overextended Commerce Clause. Which is why it’s crucial that SCOTUS put this matter to bed — and that hopefully it does