What more perfectly encapsulates the surreal state of today’s political climate than putting a wealthy tax cheat in charge of talks aimed at justifying tax increases by promoting the idea that “the rich” need to pay “their fair share”? It’s almost as if this Administration sees as its first responsibility flipping the American people the bird and letting them know they’re doing so.  Because what are going to do, vote

Sure, we’ll break our pledge. I mean, you can’t actually expect us to be purists when the FISCAL CLIFF is looming.  Some of us Care About the Country!  Don’t you, Hobbits? Besides, what are we going to do, cut our own spending, or take on big ticket entitlements?  When all we have to do instead is side with the Democrats and come out for the economic patriotism of demanding “the

Gee, and here I thought that tax on millionaires and billionaires who make $250K a year was a key component to paying down the debt.  Which it is, I guess.  Just not ours. Breitbart: Yesterday the United States, Brunei, and Indonesia formed the US-Asia Pacific Comprehensive Partnership for a Sustainable Energy Future, and President Barack Obama promised up to $6 billion for the green energy idea. “The Partnership will offer

Likely so John Roberts together with the leftwing activists can find a way to kill off religious liberty on their way to finding the entire Constitution as originally written unconstitutional. Meanwhile in other SCOTUS news, Justice Ginsburg, having already proclaimed her disdain for the Constitution she’s sworn to uphold (Ms Ginsburg would prefer a Constitution that provides positive rights, meaning that in essence she’d prefer the kind of tyrannical police

John Stossel, Reason: […] I see the future: The politicians will meet and fret and hold press conferences and predict disaster. Then they’ll reach a deal. It will just postpone the reckoning, but they’ll congratulate themselves, and the media will move on. America, however, continues to go broke. “They’re not going to admit that we’re bankrupt, and they won’t admit that we’re on the verge of a major, major change

Only in this re-imagining, which can only take place in a postmodern world of manufactured “reality” and antifoundationalist moorings that insulate tyrants from critiques that rely on hoary Enlightenment ideas like reason or logic or consistency, Woodward and Bernstein actually murder Deep Throat to protect Nixon, and the rest of the mainstream press actively celebrates the missing 18 minutes of tape, sneering at those who believe the gap to have

Which is not to be confused with dangerously surreal, another favorite of life under the American Idol presidency in these, our Benighted States of Ameritopia. But still. And here you thought the Million Muppet March was the surrealist tipping point. Shame on you for underestimating the superficiality, unseriousness, and rank ignorance of just over half the country’s voters.

The spirit of federalism lives on — even as the permanent ruling class, always busy shoring up more and more centralized power, keeps insisting it has a mandate over all the country’s newly-minted subjects. The truth, however, is that some sort of organic resistance to the march of tyranny is already taking place, and that the first post-racial, post-partisan President has fractured the country in such a way that we’re