–is the way I’m paraphrasing it. For his part, Jim Geraghty offers this response in his “Morning Jolt”: Madam Secretary, with all the respect due to your office: Shut up. Your job is to represent us, not to tell us what we can and cannot say in response to American policy and overseas events. Some of the Afghanis most likely to allegedly get inflamed by the remarks made stateside are

Courtesy Michelle Obama and the food police, who have evidently successfully entrenched themselves into the military bureaucracy: During a panel discussion Thursday on how government can promote healthy eating habits, the U.S. Army touted its mess hall labeling system that places warning on desserts and fried foods. The event, held at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, saw Lt. Col. Sonya Cable highlight the “Go for Green” program, which labels

He’s getting much grief over saying so. But then, the truth is never very popular with those who ostensibly provide us with the “objective” information we need to make informed decisions — mostly because it tends to defang progressive propaganda attempts and, nowadays, disrupt a status quo that is built almost entirely on perception rather than reality. And no, I don’t think I’m overstating the extent of our epistemic problems

My. To think, just a few years back, this kind of thing would have been immediately shouted down by the more politically savvy and sophisticated types on the right for being “unhelpful”, representing the very kind of kneejerk pushback against SCIENCE that alienates moderates and independents (who as we all know are the most wise and thoughtful among us), thus assuring the GOP its deserved place in the political wilderness,

Media Matters is just asking the tough questions, you see — questions redounding to patriotism and presumed seditious tendencies on the part of certain American Jews similar to those raised about all the Nips and the Krauts living in the US during WWII who just happened to be American citizens. Which, hey, nobody’s saying new camps are in order — at least, not yet — but at least these progressive

Andrew Malcolm, IBD: A new study released on Friday now suggests that slimmer federal tax receipts than anticipated from the sluggish Obama economy along with continued abundant spending by the Obama administration will likely move the date of the next debt deadline considerably forward so that it comes during this fall’s presidential election, with political debate beginning even earlier. The Bipartisan Policy Center previously predicted the newly-enlarged borrowing limit would

[Progressive] Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be Cowboys. Don’t let ’em pick guitars or drive them old [non-hybrid, carbon-belching, unseemly] trucks. Let ’em be [State-owned] doctors and [State-serving] lawyers and such. Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys. ‘Cos they’ll never stay home and they’re always alone. Even with [a country] they love. **** (h/t JHo)

Heh. (can’t seem to embed this video)