As usual, California leads the way: California has declared war on the most popular housing choice, the single family, detached home—all in the name of saving the planet. Metropolitan area governments are adopting plans that would require most new housing to be built at 20 or more to the acre, which is at least five times the traditional quarter acre per house. State and regional planners also seek to radically

2008 redux to begin again in earnest — with 2010 but a nightmare that “sane” Republicans have thankfully vanquished. And it’s for the best.  Because as far as ruling class pols are concerned, the only thing better than offering the American people a choice between a candidate who supports socialized medicine, TARP, federal minimum wage increases tied to inflation, cap-and-trade, green energy boondoggles, bureaucratic precedence over religious conscience, federal government

Hope and Change 2:  Electric Boogaloo! It will be up to Washington to save the country from what the Washington Post has dubbed “Taxmageddon” — the looming tax increase set to hit Americans on Jan. 1. Curtis Dubay, a senior analyst in Tax Policy at the Heritage Foundation, has chronicled the taxes set to hit if Congress and the administration do not make adjustments. According to Dubay, Americans will see

As the Media Research Center calls on Congress to launch an investigation into Comcast/NBC News’ journalistic fraud over its reporting in the Trayvon Martin case — 911 call audio was edited to suggest a racial element that the unaltered audio did not, eg., — the UN has decided it is appropriate to weigh in as well, only it has evidently given itself leave to speak as if the facts aren’t

The article to which Derbyshire’s piece was a response. Incidentally, I should add that my comment on the Steyn article — pointing out that Derb’s article isn’t “indefensible” — never made it through moderation. Take that for what it’s worth. And this, too.

That’s not much of a surprise, really. More of a surprise is that it turns out what will reelect him is “the promise of free fish tacos and a year’s worth of HBO.” Well, if you’re talking about my vote, at least. — Which, hey, don’t judge, lest ye wish to be judged, is all’s I’m saying.

From the Independent Women’s Voice: On Friday, President Obama hosted something called the “White House Forum on Women and the Economy.” The most galling statement he made at the event was undoubtedly his proclamation that, “women are not some monolithic group, women are not an interest group,” while subsequently hosting a forum that treats women as just that. […] It’s clear that the strategy of President Obama and the progressive

Losing more slowly. Rather than standing up for its free market rights, Boeing instead chose to cut a deal with Obama’s union goons. The company’s surrender not only gave Big Labor the concessions it was seeking with regard to the company’s expansion plans — more importantly it preserved the NLRB’s ability to use such thuggish tactics in the future against other companies (which Obama signaled he was more than happy

Eric Holder once told us were were afraid to have a real dialogue on race. And he did so because he knew we were — as I think this episode is proving, particularly in the way it is dividing those “on the right,” many of whom chided Holder for those remarks at the time but who now vindicate him and his attempt at rhetorical bullying. The fact is, any real

Well, they aren’t, but that’s just because I don’t get out much. And when I do, I live in Colorado. But they could be, under the right circumstances. And that’s what matters. At any rate, seems like today’s a good day to smear that particular jot of lamb’s blood on my door jam. I hear the Angel of Death is out purging, so, you know, why risk it?