… The Bad News: that a President following the Constitution is news.

The Nanny State will make sure to punish all dissent. ‘So this is what starting over looks like. I have a seven-by-seven space with two little desks in it.” Craig Zucker is remarkably good-humored, considering what he’s been through over the past year—and the tribulations that lie ahead. He’s referring to his office, rented month-to-month in a dilapidated building in a dusty corner of Brooklyn. There is construction all around,

Wright’s Law from Zack Conkle on Vimeo.

Reasons Carney, writing in the Washington Examiner: I think it’s pretty easy for a white person to (1) decide to treat black people equally, (2) assume he is treating black people equally, (3) if he witnesses no or very few acts of blatant racism decide that generally black people are treated equally, and then (4) conclude that the proper approach to race is total color-blindness. Preaching color-blindness often implies a

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Rogue, imperial President. And yet, suddenly the left seems less concerned about overstepping executive authority, which is what they accused Bush of doing — Bush having increased spending, bailed out banks, and secured a joint resolution for the use of military force, addressing the American people each time he determined that force was necessary. Obama?  Thinks the Constitutional checks on his power are impotent, because there’s no one available to

The DiploMad: Some years ago, more than I care to recount, I served at the US Mission to the UN. Years later, again, more than I care to count, I served at the US Mission to the OAS. Much of the work involved fighting over obscure resolutions and parsing words, trying to wring every possible definition and interpretation out of words. To some observers, this exercise struck them as silly,

I’m assuming, after Libya, this is meant as a rhetorical question. Because really, who’s going to stop him?  The anti-war left isn’t really an anti-war left, save for a few fart-dusting sixties throwbacks. Instead, they are a progressive lockstep political movement that relies on antifoundationalism to bracket its own hypocrisies and rationalize its own ends-justify-the-means policies. Here, Obama needs to save face. And to do so, he needs to lob