Which means that we have to stuff a flux capacitor into a Firebird rather than a DeLorean — but that we’ll still have to stomach a lot of Yes and Chicago. I guess is the point. James Pethokoukis: […] what Obama is really saying is this: “Let’s go back to the 1970s.” It was a Golden Age of Equality, with the top 1 percent’s share of national income at its

Thompson Reuters News and Insight: A legal loophole in international brokerage regulations means that few, if any, clients of MF Global are likely to get their money back. Although details of the drama are still unfolding, it appears that MF Global and some of its Wall Street counterparts have been actively and aggressively circumventing U.S. securities rules at the expense (quite literally) of their clients. MF Global’s bankruptcy revelations concerning

As Eric Holder testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on “Fast and Furious” (CBS investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson, who helped break the story, is covering the hearings via Twitter), former chairman of the Committee Jim Sensenbrenner today suggested that impeachment of administration officials involved with Operation Fast and Furious may be the only way to bring the scandal to a close. In a heated exchange between Sensenbrenner and Holder during

Obama is busy now pitching “fairness” to the American voter — with fairness, from the perspective of the left, a kind of ideological code word for a state of being in which equality of outcome is brought about by a controlled redistribution of wealth by a benevolent (but practical!) central authority that first takes its administrative cut (allowing the rulers and bureaucrats and the enforcement apparatus to live more equal

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So interesting answers here (transcript, courtesy CNN). Clearly, Gingrich believes the conservative message is ascendant and is what will sell with GOP voters — at least, those not looking for an establishment candidate. Because the GOP already has Romney for that, and if Gingrich is going to find traction he realizes he has to change his post-Congress course and veer harder right to capture the anti-Romney vote. His debating skills

Yes, the league has tailored games to the benefit of those who throw the ball, what with the strictly enforced interference and illegal hands rules, rules against hitting “defenseless receivers,” and rules that protect the quarterback from being hit in all but a small area with all but a small area of the defenders body. And this would seem to work against a QB like Tim Tebow, who hasn’t yet

Stacy McCain takes another look at Rick Santorum, now that the Cain Train has been derailed (fittingly, by a damsel in distress tied to the tracks). Which is a good call for Stacy. And I’d certainly be happy with Santorum hitting his stride, given that I think he’s performed well in debates but has never been given much of a chance to make a splash. Still, in all honestly I’m

On the Gingrich speech at RJC2012: Jen Rubin Tweets, “sitting next to @lynnsweet at #rjc2012. room is not exactly on fire for newt,” then follows-up later with “going to solve electability concern by challenging obama to lincoln-douglas debates…. Gingrich is always the smartest man in his own mind” and “gingrich is like a bad shakespeare production.. if he talks fast he hopes we think he’s very sophisticated” Compare with Ben

Said one witness, Apparently he said he was playing a game, but he was actually talking on the phone. She [the flight attendant] was very nice. The door was closed they just announced that they were pulling away from the gate. He got up threw his papers on the floor stormed into the bathroom slammed the door closed, beat on the wall and then came back. He said ‘If you