Amazing how a braying mob, political intimidation, and the word “racism” being thrown around, makes the evidence for guilt so much more compelling and convincing. This isn’t the country we’ve been taught to believe it is. Hell, maybe it never was.

I suspect it was the lack of berets, Burberry military jackets, and unholstered billy clubs that did them in. Denying the vote to other humans is unfair. And probably racist. And if it takes inventing prosecutorial powers and locking up some uppity honky mutherfucker to crystalize the points, than that’s something we should be prepared to live with in this, the United States of Benetton. (h/t JHo)

I’ll say it:  were the industrial revolution to try to take place today, we’d all of us still be living in log homes and crapping in ditches. CNS The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) enforced nearly $500,000 in fines and mandatory “environmental projects” on a school bus contractor for “excessive idling,” and as part of its anti-idling campaign to reduce the carbon footprint of school buses waiting to pick up children

And here I thought the “moral anus of the universe” was Newark. (via TRS; thanks to strangernfiction)

Why do I get the feeling that, could we see Karl Rove’s private whiteboard today, it would look something like this: 1. Get Romney the nomination by wiping out the conservatives, painting the small government message as extreme and fringe, and by manufacturing a sense of inevitability in his candidacy* 2. ?? 3. Profit!       4.  Snack cakes!  x3!

Not bad. But I think they should have gone with yellow Stars of David. Why mess with a classic, amiright? Jude! (h/t sdferr)

Here. Meaning, they can’t be defended.  Meaning, the conclusions he draws from the studies, etc., he cites — that is, from the evidence he uses to build his case — can’t legitimately be drawn from the studies, etc., he cites.  Meaning, one cannot use probabilities as a predictor of probability, particulary if the probability predicted isn’t a priori approved as “defensible”.  Meaning, math itself is now “indefensible” if that math

As usual, California leads the way: California has declared war on the most popular housing choice, the single family, detached home—all in the name of saving the planet. Metropolitan area governments are adopting plans that would require most new housing to be built at 20 or more to the acre, which is at least five times the traditional quarter acre per house. State and regional planners also seek to radically

2008 redux to begin again in earnest — with 2010 but a nightmare that “sane” Republicans have thankfully vanquished. And it’s for the best.  Because as far as ruling class pols are concerned, the only thing better than offering the American people a choice between a candidate who supports socialized medicine, TARP, federal minimum wage increases tied to inflation, cap-and-trade, green energy boondoggles, bureaucratic precedence over religious conscience, federal government

Hope and Change 2:  Electric Boogaloo! It will be up to Washington to save the country from what the Washington Post has dubbed “Taxmageddon” — the looming tax increase set to hit Americans on Jan. 1. Curtis Dubay, a senior analyst in Tax Policy at the Heritage Foundation, has chronicled the taxes set to hit if Congress and the administration do not make adjustments. According to Dubay, Americans will see