Newsmax: The Obama administration said Tuesday that a balanced-budget amendment heading for a House vote this week could impose serious risks on the economy and force cuts to essential programs such as Medicare and Social Security. The White House, in a statement, said it strongly opposed the balanced budget amendment being considered by the House. Instead, it said members of Congress should “move beyond politics as usual and find bipartisan

“Egyptian women fret as ‘modesty’ becomes election issue”. Gee. Who could have ever seen this coming? Over to you, Bill Kristol! — or are you too busy these days telling us rubes how to vote in the GOP primaries to revisit this last very public whiff of yours…? (h/t Allah)

Because honestly, who needs transparent representative government when a group of lawmakers can get what they want pushed through a “Supercommittee” that is itself an abomination of the legislative process? Thanks, Speaker Boehner! We couldn’t have created such a permanent governing class without you! Now. Get your asses in line and support Romney, TEA Party pains in the ass! The GOP has tax revenues it would like to manage for

This illustrates precisely why we can’t count on politicians and bureaucrats and regulators to police themselves. It likewise shows how, once you expand government, it is nearly impossible to contract it without a complete and, dare I say, fundamental transformation, of the political culture. Which is what the TEA Party proposes. Not coincidentally. Cato: Perhaps no failure was as avoidable as that of the Bernie Madoff scheme. After all outside

Let the defensiveness and spinning begin! A teacher who took her students to see Occupy Denver said she brought her class to see what was happening. “We came to observe,” said teacher Celia Bard when questioned by a blogger in a video posted on YouTube. — And by “observe,” she means have students shout, along with the Occupy Denver group leader (himself very concerned about the precious bodily fluids of

And with this, the SCOTUS has become officially politicized, and has lost its mandate, so far as I’m concerned. We live in tyranny.

When the erstwhile establishment feminists have lost a post-feminist feminist Journalism professor willing to tell them so in the NYT, well, that can only mean one thing: CAT FIGHT! After all these years, we are again debating the definition of unwanted sexual advances and parsing the question of whether a dirty joke in the office is a crime. Conservatives have mocked the seriousness of sexual harassment; liberal and mainstream pundits

CNS News: The U.S. Department of Justice is refusing to comply with a request from the House Judiciary Committee to provide the committee with documents and witness interviews that the committee believes, as Chairman Lamar Smith (R.-Texas) put it in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, would allow the panel “to properly understand any involvement by Justice Kagan in matters relating to health care legislation or litigation while she

…here you go. I almost feel sad for these women. I mean, I thought the whole idea was to ward off unwanted attention — not to paint it up, stuff it in pumps, and drag it out in front of the cameras once a week.

Of course they do. Legitimately, too: after all, they’re being paid to advertise for the federal government and its programs, so why shouldn’t they be paid. I mean, they’re whores, not sluts. Show some respect.