A: When it’s uttered by a man who hasn’t studied history, doesn’t understand the nature of man, eschews the foundational principles of the country he longs to “fundamentally tranform,” and who views the world as his to reconfigure until it at long last matches the one he envisions — a man who has been enabled in that narcissistic delusion his entire adult life by those who have groomed him and

CNS, “Call For Climate Skeptics To Be ‘Treated’ Removed From University’s Press Statement”: Back in March, environment and sociology Prof. Kari Norgaard’s press statement on the University of Oregon’s website said that skeptics of the man-made global warming theory should be “treated” for their skepticism. But, now that a story about the comment has gained nation media attention after being posted on The Drudge Report last week, the statement has

Van Jones delivers the red meat version of Obama’s frequent stump speech, the one in which the President talks about his opponents’ “narrow, cramped view of liberty” (without ever defining liberty himself) and mocs such foundational American ideals as self-reliance, personal responsibility, and individualism while promoting a kind of social collectivism camouflaged in the language of Christian charity. Only with a big beneficent central government as the Godhead promising to

Turns out this “White Hispanic” racist / neighborhood watch captain spoke publicly on behalf of a black homeless man beaten by the son of a Sanford police officer.  In between his racial profiling classes, likely. But Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the New Black Panther Party, and the NAACP’s Turner Clayton, in their rush to organize marches and bounties and “civil disobedience,” evidently missed that bit of Zimmerman’s history.  Oops! Of

So this is where we are as a country:  It’s now “judicial activism” to rule in accordance with the Constitution, while judicial restraint gets redefined as agreeing to rubber-stamp the legislative will of Democrat super majorities, even if what they rush into law is clearly unconstitutional — and creates subjects where free citizens with unalienable rights once existed. So says our would-be tyrant, who views any rebuke to his claims

Silly conservative Justices, so busy politicizing Good Public Policy and using sophomoric hypotheticals to make “arguments” that they keep letting this “Constitution” thingy get in the way of Doing What The People Want.  Don’t these dullards realize that the remedy for what concluding legitimately what is and isn’t constitutional is the people’s ability to vote out politicians they believe went too far?  Pearlstein, WaPO: Judging from their blatantly partisan bleating

Gulp. (thanks to Thomas D)

From JHo, via email: “Interesting use of “neoliberal”, although this piece is couched in technical, even passive language.  I’ve been ranting about this for years. Ben Bernanke was an academic, not a banker but sufficiently brainwashed in neoliberal, pro-Wall Street ideology to be trusted by the banks to flood the economy with credit in an attempt to re-inflate the bubble economy so as to pull real estate prices out of

But so what? Obama is gaining ground among women voters and overtaking Romney in swing states. And here you thought issues and performance mattered. Silly, politically-engaged Hobbits. If substance mattered even near as much as “polish,” predictability, hair, or a willingness to keep to the managed script written for you by the status quo political class, you think the GOP Party establishment would be pushing Mitt Romney? It is to

I was going to wait until tomorrow to put this up, but hell, it’s April Fool’s day. And some of you more religious types might view that as a sign. Besides, a few donations have already come in (thanks, all!), and I wanted to start a thread so that I can thank people individually and publicly. — And of course, because fundraisers are what Jews do. update:  Thanks to all