Go, ruling class! Go Team! Who needs freedom when you can have power? **** update: Besides, as the Romney campaign lectures, the GOP primaries are “not about picking someone even with your own beliefs and principles. This is about picking a person that can beat Barack Obama, period.” Just so you know.

But no worries: should we ever really need to be engaged in two separate theaters at once, we can always just ship over all the new union enforcers and have them set up picket lines — or, in a pinch, let them pull, say, the North Korean president into an alley and truncheon him to death with a blackjack. Problem solved — and with significant savings that can then be

Bill Wilson, ALG: Since Barack Obama assumed office, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the total population over age 16 has grown by 5.845 million to 240.5 million, and yet, since then, the civilian labor force has actually shrunk by 349,000 — from about 154.2 million to 153.8 million. This is a startling contradiction, and it is at the heart of why the unemployment rate is much higher than

RS McCain asks the question: Conventional wisdom suggests that the social conservative message that fueled Santorum’s surge in the Iowa caucuses, where evangelical Protestants are an influential constituency, will not go over well in New Hampshire. Yet Santorum appears determined to try to prove the conventional wisdom wrong. During an afternoon appearance at a gathering of college students in Manchester, Santorum was challenged on his opposition to same-sex marriage, which

This latest in response to my post detailing how the left will try to smear Santorum. From Sam Seder, who writes: we’d like to invite you to call into the Hipster douche’s show any time you’d like- we’re live 11:30 AMET M-F and take calls generally after 12:10 at 646-257-3920… you can “Ask why, for instance, no one has asked Santorum to respond to this bit of truncated video. Or

Take away their cynicism, their opportunism, and their contempt for a Constitution designed to thwart their dictatorial designs (ah, if only we could be like China, right, Obama? Right, Tom Friedman? Right, Andy Stern?), all that would remain of the progressive ruling class is a pile of fat wallets and a floor full of power suits. And likely a few hairpieces. That certain Bushies — whose boss had his own

This is the same Reid who relied on the constitutionality of non-recess procedural rules to block Bush appointments, back when he needed to assert their constitutionality to get done what he wanted to get done. Constitutionality that shifts depending on the party in power, or that shifts depending upon the current context, deconstructs the very idea of a foundational, grounding document around which the rule of law derives its power.

…I offer this counter. Secular social engineering — that is, replacing God with the State, then making the State your God — is really no different in kind from the cries of “theocracy” that often ring out even among certain conservatives, save that overt expressions of those religions that believe in a higher metaphysical power than man (or his aggregation) have been carefully and methodologically removed from public discourse, while

In his speech at Shaker Heights High School, Obama proved — as Dennis Green might say — that he is who we though he was. In fact, Obama — under the guise of Champion to the Middle Class (he’s looking out for you!) — has essentially said that separation of powers, checks and balances, and, in effect, the Legislative branch itself, are mere nuisances that need to be circumvented, and

Cause a crisis, then ride to the rescue as the champion fighting it. This is the way to power. To borrow from Marx Vader (whom I’ve just now invented), “welcome to the Dark Side, Luke. What can I have other people get for ya’?”