Awesome! The bipartisan lobbying effort has yielded fruit this year in the “Marketplace Fairness Act.” Under this bill, if you buy something online, you pay a sales tax. Retailers, meanwhile, will have to collect sales taxes for every state where they have customers, even if the retailer has no physical presence there. This is often how tax legislation gets passed: powerful interests hire revolving-door lobbyists to push for taxes on

It’s working.  The private sector is doing fine. Hope, change, etc. It’s all good.  Now. Let’s see if we can’t put Christian companies out of business by casting religion per se as intolerant and hateful and a violation of the “civil rights” of those who, while not forced to adopt religious beliefs, have nonetheless to encounter religious people and their odious hateful ideas and opinions on occasion.  And being forced

Steven Hayward, Powerline, on the Ford Foundation’s charitable giving meant to prop up liberal media outlets like the LA Times and now the WaPo: I’m delighted that the Ford Foundation is stepping in to shore up the nearly bankrupt legacy news media.  (I think Dan Rather may be available cheap, by the way.)  How long until they start shoring up failing public employee union pension plans?  I doubt even Ford

Well, let’s be fair, here.  It may be “toxic” but at least it’s “green toxic.”  Which is like being pleasantly poisoned by unicorn kisses or smilingly stroking out while watching the happy ending of an Al Gore massage. Three months ago, CBS 5 caught Solyndra tossing millions of dollars worth of brand new glass tubes used to make solar panels. Now the bankrupt solar firm, once touted as a symbol

And if you do it anyway — that is, if you do your job? Well, then, goodbye to you: A veteran Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is facing suspension after he refused to release an illegal immigrant who was not considered a priority target under the Obama Administration’s new immigration enforcement policies, according to documents provided exclusively to Fox News. […] “They’re punishing law enforcement officers who are just trying

For me, this guy — a (now) former CFO and an “academic” — is the poster child for the enforced conformity and thought policing that is the hallmark of progressive activism. May he live in permanent infamy. Whereas the Chick-fil-a drive-thru employee? Was the epitome of class, grace, and professionalism. This video should be an objective correlative for the 2012 election season.

See, as a Colorado Democrat with daughters who’ve taken NRA gun courses, she’s all for gun ownership.  Only with sensible limits, you see.  Like, for instance, a ban on “assault weapons.”  Or on “high capacity” magazines.  Which, once banned from the hands of law abiding citizens with a natural right to own the kind of weapons that aid in their protection, will never again fall in the hands of a

Peter Ferrara, The American Spectator: Calculated Deception. That is the central theme of the Obama campaign. Calculated Deception is the term I use for Obama’s rhetorical practice of trying to take advantage of what he calculates the average person does not know, and his party-controlled, so-called mainstream media won’t report. And that can be seen over and over in the Obama campaign. […] In Monday’s Wall Street Journal, Edward Lazear,

Let that be a lesson to you: health care is never free. — Unless you are an illegal, of course. Or you need some rubbers or pills and there’s a war being waged on you and your vagina by misogynistic right wingers and religious nutjobs. Then it’s free. And a fundamental, universal, moral right. For those keeping score at home. (h/t Drudge via Twitter)

Ed Morrissey: I know that the term “Senate ethics” is often an oxymoron, but doesn’t accusing a political opponent from the Senate floor of a felony without offering a shred of proof violate some kind of ethics rule?  “The word’s out” refers only to Harry Reid and Harry Reid alone.  Not only is this despicable and grossly irresponsible, it should be actionable in court. One problem with dullards like Harry