Guess Bloomberg doesn’t yet own everyone after all. USA Today: New York City’s soft drink sellers celebrated a sweet victory Monday when Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s controversial ban on large-size sugary beverages was overturned by a New York state judge. “We’re excited. We’re happy,” said Russell Levinson, general manager of Movieworld in Queens. He is relieved, that for now at least, the theater doesn’t have to ditch the four drink sizes

It’s rather stunning to see, and like the Paul filibuster was, important to hear: it turns out that there are left lawmakers out there who will stand on principle, and have now acknowledged publicly on the floor of the CO Senate that they will “willfully” disobey this law should it pass — arguing, per Joseph Story, that they not only have the right to protect themselves, their families, and their

Begins again at 1:30 MT. The live feed for watching your fellow American citizens in CO get ass-banged by the legislature and Governor can be found here. But no worries. I plan on blowing my whistle when these lockstep petty tyrants get hard enough to penetrate me. And if that doesn’t work, I’ll fake an STD, or maybe my period. That ought to stop it.

At some point, somebody just needs to tell the freakin’ Emperor that not only are he and his enablers and defenders naked, but that the plastic surgery they’ve elected to prepare for the unlikely contingency wherein people started to point and notice, isn’t working nearly as well as they’d hoped it would…

As a counter to the “Hastert Rule,” which demands that Republicans move forward with legislation only if they have a majority of Republican support — a rule the Boehner/Cantor/McCarthy-led House has broken repeatedly (most recently with the VAWA), caucusing with Democrats to pass legislation that we conservatives and Republicans elected them, en masse, to oppose — I’d like to offer what I’ll call the “Colin Powell Rule,” whereby repeatedly voting

At some point, we need to just start recalling these people for violating their Constitutional oaths. And if that doesn’t work, we need en masse simply to refuse to comply with these illegitimate laws. It really is that simple. Fox News: If you can’t ban ’em, tax ’em. Lawmakers looking to more tightly regulate firearms in the wake of the Newtown school shooting and other massacres are moving at the