Fine. The King gave them their chance to vote on social justice and they failed. Now he’ll just have to do it himself. And if that means he risks pissing off some of the nobles, so be it. “Jan Brewer: Obama plan is ‘backdoor amnesty’”: Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer called the Obama administration’s new policy that will allow many illegal immigrants who don’t have criminal records the chance to stay

WTF! (Or, without the irony, wtf?) CNS: A proposed federal health insurance regulation set to take effect next year requires insurers to provide consumers with explanatory summaries of their plans, but the insurance industry contends this could be costly to enrollees, and offer little benefit. The new rule – part of the $1 trillion Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare – was announced Wednesday by Donald

The Washington Examiner’s Timothy Carney on Rick Perry: “I’m a pro-business governor — I don’t make any apologies about it,” Rick Perry told the crowds in Iowa this week. He’s right, but we can get more specific. Perry is pro-Merck, pro-Boeing, pro-Mesa Wind, pro-Texas Instruments, pro-Convergen, and pro-dozens of businesses that donate to his campaigns and hire his aides as lobbyists. Perry promises to “get Americans back to work,” but

Lies of Aug 17, Wyffels Hybrids Production Facility, Atkinson, Illinois. Lies told, exposed and repeated anyway are omitted. You know, this downgrade that happened, they didn’t downgrade us because America couldn’t pay its bills. They downgraded it because they felt that our political system couldn’t seem to make good decisions in order to deal with our budget the same way families deal with their budgets. This is a lie. They

Yes we did!

Libertarian oases? Life without the left. And the establishment right. 21st century kibbutzes. A hippie movement to resist the Progressive Man. Free-roaming “families” living by their own rules, without the stabbing of movie stars and unborn children to bring the heat down on them. Sounds great at first blush. But the inevitable Ron Paul-like foreign policy — a full-circle rejoining of the far left and the paleocon right, creating a

run run northeastern anti-gun pro-mike castle let’s eat din-din with obama and the chicoms chris christie save Christmas! I guess this is what happens when the Huntsman juggernaut doesn’t gather the requisite steam. On the plus side? Palin will tear this poseur to shreds. **** update: Alter retracts. (thanks to John B)

— Which, I realize that seems a bit … tardy. But in fairness to the President, perhaps he’s planning on releasing the plan to coincide with the promised release of his former China ambassador (and Bush favorite) John Huntsman’s economic plan. Must just be a “top tier candidate” thing. We wouldn’t understand.

In response to a bit pulled from my previous post — namely, this bit: — just thought I’d highlight that bit for all the “compromise at all costs” types, some of who seem to be leading the GOP in Congress, others of whom have assumed the role of mouthpiece for the party — and vanishingly few of whom seem to be as on “our” side as they pretend to be.

Uh, what is “unbridled power and a true de facto class structure,” Alex…? Robert Romano: “We want to state our absolute will to defend the euro,” said French President Nicolas Sarkozy after meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Paris. Sarkozy called for a “true European economic government”. Uh oh. […] Thus far, the bailouts have not benefited any nation. Instead, they have helped each nation’s creditors: international financial institutions,