— Which, I think I made a similar argument when Jim Pethokoukis took Piketty’s — and, by extension we now know, this entire Administration’s — economic modeling seriously, and offered a sober rejoinder, correcting certain of Piketty’s mistaken assumptions or lapses in rigor. And I did so because the academic work done by the left begins with the conclusion and tries to reason backward from that conclusion, looking for clever

Andrew Malcolm, IBD: President Obama is off to West Point again today. He’ll deliver yet another speech containing Obama Pivot Number God-Knows-What to outline his latest vision for a new world order that isn’t going to happen but will get him through a few more news cycles in the 967 days remaining in his White House tenure. You can always tell when Obama feels threatened. He orders up new investigations

It’s somewhat ironic, I guess, that the left — with its obsession about “white privilege” and its sanctimonious and ostentatious attempts at self-flagellation — routinely paint the TEA Party members as ultra white, knuckle-dragging Neanderthals, whose “white privilege” extends, in the mind of these same inconsistent leftist “academics” and their gullible, needy adepts, to having dibs on the first cousin with the Daisy Duke cutoffs, or being put under special

Partisan progressive mouthpiece MSNBC — and the other political rags and propaganda arms for police state totalitarianism — should each run a day-long investigative special:  “Surviving a Hammer/Knife/Hatchet/BMW Attack:  Can Bullets from the Firearm of a Trained, Law Abiding Citizen Travel Faster than, and be More Effective from a Greater Distance than, Non-Controlled Weaponry You Can Buy at, say, the Home Depot, or a Smiling Sam’s Used Car Lot?” Let