The New Left is all in. Yes, the Romney response to attacks on Bain have been weak and feckless (at least, up until yesterday) — a hint of which we saw in the GOP primaries when some of Romney’s primary challengers decided to go anti-capitalist, as well. At which time I commented that Romney has trouble responding because he lacks an actual conservative world view — that his “severe conservatism”
July 17, 2012
“WI Judge Who Signed Walker Recall Petition Tosses State’s Voter ID Law”
If they can’t beat you at the ballot box they plan on disenfranchising you through political activists appointed to the courts — partisan plants suckled on illegitimate interpretative maneuvers who will declare it a “substantial impairment of the right to vote” to acquire a photo, then turn around and declare it perfectly acceptable that you be taxed for not carrying health insurance. Until we start demanding that legitimate and duly
July 17, 2012
Fish Tales, redux: Scalia’s faulty textualism [updated]
I’ve written on this before (in a series of posts about egrets and etc.), but in the NYT today, no less an anti-foundationalist icon than Stanley Fish uses an intentionalist argument to correct the faulty hermeneutical assumptions of texualism — the mode of interpretation pressed by Scalia and Garner’s Reading the Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts. One may speculate on Fish’s motives — he perhaps wishes to problematize the
July 17, 2012
“Orator Obama offers fainting crowd advice on how to stand listening to him”
Move over, Bill O’Reilly. It’s Obama who these days is looking out for you: It’s the kind of thing that would have been all over the news all weekend with a previous president. President Obama was — what else? — campaigning for reelection in a warm, muggy Roanoke, Virginia Friday. He was going on and on, as he seems to do more and more these days. Suddenly, members of the crowd of
July 16, 2012
“The Future Obama Economy”: a protein wisdom nanofiction
Bored, she asked, “So. Feel like going out, maybe getting a burger or something?” He raked her with his eyes. “A burger?” he spat. “What do I look like, a fucking Rockefeller?” ~ finis ~
July 16, 2012
JP Morgan to Dems: it ain’t working, comrades.
Via Jim Pethokoukis, this, from JP Morgan: This morning we lowered our tracking of Q2 GDP growth from 1.7% to 1.4%. For some time now we have noted that our Q3 GDP call — which was already below consensus at 2.0% — had risks that were skewed to the downside. After the latest round of data we have decided to lower our projection for Q3 to 1.5%. The strength in
July 16, 2012
Resistance to ObamaCare is futile. It’s not like you built your business yourself, anyway [Darleen Click]
Obama’s “Kill Romney” campaign sneers that Mitt never created one job, just “fired people.” Ahem In the wake of the Supreme Court’s health care decision, several companies with 50 or more full-time workers have embarked on a quest. Their aim: Get below 50 and dodge the employer mandate. […] Kari DePhillips, who co-owns the Content Factory, a public relations firm in Pittsburgh, was hoping she could just break up the
July 16, 2012
“36 Obama aides owe $833,000 in back taxes”
Well, sure, okay. But at least we know that about them. What we don’t know is, why doesn’t Mitt Romney owe back taxes? Failure to evince any evidence of impropriety is itself quite suspicious, and probably bespeaks some hidden impropriety that must be ferreted out from the mass of wealth reported. RELEASE THE RECORDS!
July 16, 2012
“Democrats open door to letting taxes rise in 2013 to reset debate with GOP” [updated]
And this is surprising why? Punishing “the rich” — in essence, justifying the plunder of the productive class to draw in revenue to redistribute to their friends and constituency leaders — is necessary to any leftist enterprise, though the “rich” who are willing to lend their support to the government class and give cover for the plunder are rewarded by decreased competition and the cronyism inherent in liberal fascism, the