Color me shocked. But not orange. For the love of God. CNN: House Speaker John Boehner is mocking fellow House Republicans for saying that it’s too hard to tackle the controversial issue of immigration reform. Speaking Thursday at a meeting of the Middletown Rotary Club in his home congressional district in southwestern Ohio, an animated Boehner, talking about his colleagues on Capitol Hill, said “here’s the attitude: ‘Ohhhh, don’t make

Jim Pethokoukis offered his tack; I offered mine.  But Kevin Williamson really went out of his way to parse the chaff from the wheat — not with respect to Piketty himself, but rather to progressive economic fantasies more generally —and it turns out there’s not enough wheat left over in the progressive’s collectivist basket to make a single box of cereal: Money is a symbolic system, the purpose of which

As a follow-up to Darleen’s post below, it isn’t just states — and it isn’t just drinks — that the nannystate wants to watch. It’s you. Want some of that government health care you’ll soon be compelled, likely out of financial necessity, to take on? Well, the government wants things from you in exchange. Like, for instance, to watch what you eat, and send you messages encouraging to stop your

The state of Connecticut feels parents are too stupid to decide what their children should drink The state legislature is considering a bill that would ban day care centers from serving whole milk or 2 percent milk to children. The move, according to the bill’s sponsors, is aimed at curbing childhood obesity — but opponents say the information is outdated. […] It reads: “No child day care center, group day