Formerly, they were threatened by disappearing ice. It’s all part of the unified theory of global climate change: all weather is harmful to something, and when it isn’t, that’s just the weather telling denialist lies. Honestly. If even those environmental stewards with their hearts in the right place aren’t embarrassed by the refusal of supposed climate scientist alarmists to debate the data — not their own faulty modeling — on

I’ve recommended Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner’s Reckless Endangerment on a number of occasions. Let me take this opportunity to do so again. It consistently amazes me how the American people re-elect to office the very kinds of people who cause them so much harm, be it to liberty or property. Maybe we’re a nation of masochists. Or maybe we’ve just be successfully dumbed down to the point of irretrievability.

I don’t know how many times I have to repeat this line before it finally takes hold, but we live in time when it is the ruling class vs. the rest of us — from the open mockery by a sitting President of “teabaggers,” to a governmental attack on private citizens (Limbaugh, Bundy, the Koch brothers), to the declared war establishment Republicans, who can never bring themselves to actively reject

Back in olden times, many of you will recall, there was a great deal of sturm und drang over Bush the Younger’s use of executive orders and signing statements from the left, and I agreed in part that these short-circuitings of the legislative process in the name of efficiency set bad precedents. At the time, these abuses of process triggered much hyperventilating from leftists, who warned of the rise of