Cloward-Piven never takes a holiday. It just pretends to — even if that means forcing itself to look like it’s enjoying hot-buttered lobster rolls and afternoon aperitifs on the decks of yachts like some entitled bourgeois douche. Cloward-Piven is down for the struggle. All power to the people. Man.

Dear Leader must be reading the polls. And the polls are telling him it’s time to become the conservative, pro-business Dear Leader. WSJ: The Obama administration will release final plans Tuesday for ending or cutting back hundreds of regulations, an effort to reduce the burden on business and counter criticism that the White House is tone-deaf to business concerns. Certain railroad cars won’t have to install expensive technology, hospitals will

…Jesus Christ died for nothing / I suppose…

Some people carry pens or Kleenex or Altoids on their person. Not me.

Via Michele Malkin, here’s one candidate scorecard. I like both Bachmann and Cain, and it’s no surprise, really, that they score best. But to show how non-absolutist I am, I’d happily support Palin for President, as well. Perry I’m still a bit nervous about (sorry, Bill): I will say that I’m happy with his answers on border enforcement; I just need to be convinced he isn’t just throwing out red-meat

Besides, like, you know, nobody? Washington Examiner, “Here comes more failed stimulus spending”: President Obama will deliver yet another “major speech” after he returns from his Martha’s Vineyard vacation. Among other things, he promises the speech will contain details of a new “stimulus plan” for getting America’s stagflating economy back on the right track. According to the Washington Post, “Obama also plans to announce a major push for new deficit

Here’s the thing about progressive media “truths”: seldom they can withstand direct confrontation with aggregated and rigorously parsed fact, properly and unapologetically presented. And that’s because to the left, “truths” are the product of perception and consensus — what they can create, by convincing reasonable people of the viability of their constructed claims — and this kind of will to power only works if you’re able to marginalize reason and

National Journal: “I wouldn’t necessarily trust any of my opponents right now, who were on a recent debate stage with me, when every single one of them would have allowed this country to default,” Huntsman told Jake Tapper on ABC News’s This Week. “You can imagine, even given the uncertainty of the marketplace the last several days and the last couple of weeks, if we had defaulted for the first

Surprisingly, that “worst-case 2012 scenario” doesn’t refer to gangs of Jesus-crazed redneck TEA Party zombies roaming the countryside, eating the barbecued brains of kindhearted progressives whose only crime was trying to dole out social justice. James Pethokoukis: When American presidents win reelection, they usually win by a heftier margin than the first time around. Narrower victories are rare, just three or four depending if you’re looking at the electoral or

Utopian thinking runs headlong into reality. Again. CNS News: The Obama Administration’s new fuel economy standards will cause the retail price of average motor vehicles to increase over $11,000, according to a study conducted by the Center for Automotive Research. “A fuel economy standard of 37.6 mpg is associated with a price increase of $5,244, 18.1 percent higher than the 2009 National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) average price of $28,966.