Why ban when you can just price all but the very rich out of access to abundant energy? NetRightDaily: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called upon the U.S., its largest contributor, to levy a $500 billion a year carbon tax on consumers to offset what it calls “underpriced” oil, coal, and other energy products. This “mispricing” is supposedly leading to “excessive energy consumption,” which is “accelerating the depletion of

Or, “how we here on the thinking side of liberty can take a masturbatory screed filled with near aimless and infinite projection and rebut it in in a few carefully chosen links.” To wit, this is what the 2nd Amendment as a foundational right of the free man in a constitutional republic hasn’t allowed to happen here. For the children. Oh. And I feel compelled to make this clear to

Remember, this is the same Representative who believed magazines were disposal, probably because she saw a movie or tv show where a character simply dropped one to load another in the heat of some (wildly inauthentic) exchange of fire. And yet she gets to introduce anti-gun legislation — and her Democrat colleagues will vote to impose it on people who know about guns, and have every right to protect themselves

“That isn’t true!” they’ll shout. “White liberals are the champions of the oppressed races, especially those mud peoples lacking the basic, native intelligence to act on their own behalf in any effective way.” In fact, I’ll bet many of them are so outraged right now that they could absolutely lynch this uppity, gay-hating Uncle Tom.  Who, it turns out, is being duped by conservatives.  Because for all his medical accomplishments,

Commenting on the article, progressives sneer at the policy idiocy of the hillbillies, noting that such laws are unenforceable and largely symbolic, not to mention decidedly backwoods in its thinking. — proving yet again that those who think themselves sophisticated connoisseurs of irony wouldn’t recognize it if it stripped down to its jock, put on a cowboy hat and chaps, and started humping their legs in exchange for dollar bills.

Meh, so what?  Just mentioning this singles you out as part of the black helicopter crowd. I’m sure Obama — who likes to shoot him so clay pigeons! — isn’t going to be pressing the Senate to try to go along with a surrender of national sovereignty to a far-flung collection of international bureaucrats. After all, he loves his country — and respects its sovereignty — just as much as

Jim Geraghty, The Morning Jolt: Today President Obama  travels to Colorado to “meet with law enforcement and community leaders to discuss the gun control package signed into law by Gov. John Hickenlooper.” That’s a three-hour flight, right? At  $179,750 per hour, that comes out to $1,078,500 in costs for Air Force One for the trip. That’s just about the cost of public tours of the White House for one year.

… Forgive me for pointing this out, but it looks like downhill driving is overdetermined — and perhaps even willfully so. From the Bureau of Labor Statistics: I’ll let Doug Ross break down the particulars for you: A. President Obama is inaugurated. B. President Obama signs Obamacare into law. Thousands of pages of law and tens of thousands of pages of regulations (which have yet to be completed) have thrown

Jordan Bloom at the American Conservative — who I take it is a Bioshock fan — wants to make it clear that he isn’t one of those kind of conservatives, the kind who “rhapsodize” in ways unhinged and ill-informed, who “freak out” over what is just “a video game, for Heaven’s sake.”  Writes Bloom: What’s so funny about this is that neither [the Virginian or Goldstein] actually identify the game,

It’s out in the open now.  There’s no longer any real pretense of objectivity. Each time the progressive media “report” favorably on something they characterize like this (fairly or not) — and no switch comes down to sting their hands — they grow ever more emboldened.  In the Oval Office they know they have someone who believes the very same things as they do, someone  steeped in the very same