To borrow from the late great Dandy Don, “turn out the lights, the party’s over…” (h/t Darleen)

Good overview, addressing such things as the increase in debt as a share of GDP; an historically slow jobs recovery; a drop in US competitive status as noted by the World Economic Forum; a decline in real hourly earnings, and so on. But Mr Pethokoukis misses number 12 — and it’s a rather significant omission, in my estimation:  namely, Obama is still President. Other than that, though.  Nice work.  

This would be a big deal — particularly in the run-up to a foreign policy debate — if it wasn’t for one simple fact: RACIST! (h/t Pablo)

Just to highlight my own Visigothery — I see things, you see, that just aren’t there, like for instance Obama’s inherent embrace of Marxism — here’s a reminder from the Tuesday debate of how the President very clearly does not stand for any of those things we fringe “purists” very unhelpfully accuse him of — and in our conspiratorial zeal, push away the very kinds of moderate and undecided voters

Good lord:  is the race hustling industry becoming so hard up that they’re now reduced to trying to paint white Republicans with plantation language? Because — and I know Michael Eric Dyson could find hidden or coded racism in the color of a shadow, then insinuate that the sun is looking for way to keep the pinned down on urban streets or rural acreage, so this really is par for

It’s okay:  Mr Bean will explain it to you, using as an objective correlative current British law: [Rowan Atkinson] criticised the “new intolerance” as he called for part of it the Public Order Act to be repealed, saying it was having a “chilling effect on free expression and free protest”. Mr Atkinson said: “The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as

No answer given, just speculation, of course.  But if I had to guess?  I’d go with “their names appear magically on his teleprompter, almost as if they’d been sent him by God.  Which can’t be the case, clearly, because He is God.  So more likely, it’s some sort of Terminator time travel scenario.” Science!

Judges, as a class, are society’s very own, very privileged caste:  philosopher kings. And we should be happy to have them available to us, lest we find ourselves — in bipartisan fashion — unable to correctly and unequivocally express the consent of the governed. The other branches of government are just dressing, at this point.  Except for the imperial executive, should the court side with him. Which it does. Incidentally,

Here’s a little “tale of the tape” comparison between Clint Eastwood and Senate Majority Leader pro tem Harry Reid: Eastwood: High Plains Drifter Reid: Low-life grifter Eastwood: The man with no name Reid: The man with no shame Eastwood: Pale Rider Reid: His bills have riders that are beyond the pale Eastwood: Talked to a vacant chair Reid: Needs to vacate his chair Eastwood: Escaped from Alcatraz Reid: Belongs there