The temptation will always exist to try procuring for free what you should instead be bartering for.  For instance, one might be tempted to drape himself in the pelt of a brown bear, say, and make a night-time raid on a rival camp with a weak perimeter, trusting that the fear his sudden counterfeit attack inspires will coax a flight instinct, leaving the disguised interloper free to gather up thermal

This crony corporatist (how much did GE pay in taxes again?) is now head of Obama’s jobs council. And, like every liberal fascist before him, he pines after authoritarian control and a police state decked out in the guise of a representative republic — while crony capitalists, working with the government, regulate away competition and consolidate power. Which, incidentally, was the bridge stage before nationalization of industry in Bellamy’s Looking

I don’t know how you feel, but this Obama foreign policy we’ve now voted twice for is like, so totally fair, you know?  No more hegemons.  No more superpowers or a military industrial complex powerful enough to keep the people down.  North Korea successfully arming for the big time?  What could be a better indication that the last vestiges of oppressive American world policing is coming to an end under

We call these pockets of resistance.  And we classical liberals / constitutional conservatives welcome them. Now we just need the kind of leadership that can point confidently to the successes of such dramatic retaking of state economies and not run away from the very changes that turn states around. Oh. And we also need a way to prevent the locusts who flee collapsing states from setting up in new states

Peter Ferrara, Forbes: President Obama seems to have a strategy to terminate all of the Bush tax cuts, not just those for “the rich,” as he has been saying since 2008.  He is offering the Republicans exactly zero concessions in the “fiscal cliff” negotiations.  No spending cuts, no entitlement reform, no compromise on the rates.  It is entirely my way or the highway, and if the Republicans refuse to do