Meh. That just means it melted really fast because of horrific and troubling global climate change, then re-froze just as fast, because of horrific and troubling global climate change. We here at the UN Committee on Climate Science are as a result going to need lots of your money to study this sudden-melt/sudden-re-freeze phenomenon — and we’re going to require lots of changes in your behavior to prevent further occurrences

Remember, people:  to save conservatism, we have to be willing to rule like liberals.  And be largely indistinguishable from them. Michael Walsh, The Corner: I’ve been wondering why the spineless life forms known as the “GOP leadership” have been so darn quiet about the Obama administration’s increasingly lawless, in-your-face attitude toward what used to be known as the American political system, and now I know — they’re all in it

— Which of course is perfectly fine, and treats young adults with the respect their years of handjob experimentation have earned them.  It’s when these kids start drinking big sodas or eating salty foods that we need to step in and nip that shit in the bud. Priorities. Forward!  

AP: The Justice Department has set up a hotline for the public to report potential civil rights concerns regarding the Arizona law that requires police to check the immigration status of those they stop for other reasons. The hotline phone number is 1-855-353-1010. The email is: SB1070(at)usdoj.gov. The Supreme Court unanimously approved Arizona’s “show-me-your-papers” requirement on Monday but struck down provisions that created state crimes allowing local police to arrest

Think it through:  if you are an illegal and you haven’t committed a felony, the only recourse Arizona law enforcement has is to alert ICE.  And the feds have already alerted AZ law enforcement that, unless the illegal in question has committed a felony, they aren’t interested in hearing from Arizona law enforcement.  The crime of illegality is still illegal, but it is unenforceable, and therefore moot.  Pre-empted. So Arizona,

Turns out “income inequality” as proof of capitalism’s fundamental flaw is every bit as pointedly misleading as it was intended to be. Sadly, we free marketers have to come out with detailed studies proving our claims, while all the Left must do is fashion fraught descriptions and offer disingenuous intimations of some outrage to “social justice” — and even then, the detailed studies only work in a climate where people

Aaron Walker can once again write “Brett Kimberlin is a convicted bomber” online should he wish, online, to note that Brett Kimberlin is in fact a convicted bomber. Yay! And you thought our country was becoming less free. Hobbits.

“Bad Decision:  Supreme Court Strikes Down Mandatory Life Sentences Without Parole for Teenagers, But Does Not Cite “International Norms”, Hans Bader, CEI: The Supreme Court has just ruled 5-to-4 that states cannot mandate life sentences without the possibility of parole for murderers under age 18, no matter how horrible the murder, in Miller v. Alabama. The cases before it involved 14-year-old murderers from Alabama and Arkansas, but the Court, casting

Sdferr cites this part of the dissent by Justice Scalia: […] But there has come to pass, and is with us today, the specter that Arizona and the States that support it predicted: A Federal Government that does not want to enforce the immigration laws as written, and leaves the States’ borders unprotected against immigrants whom those laws would exclude. So the issue is a stark one. Are the sovereign