When Jonah Goldberg and Stanley Kurtz are pushing a David Brooks piece on Reckless Endangerment (the book I earlier pitched that traces to the Bill Clinton, the Democrats, and their Wall Street cronies the source for today’s economic crisis)…well, that famed and glorious crease in Obama’s pants can’t be feeling all that comfy with itself these days, let’s just say. Kurtz: I’ve only had a chance to give Reckless Endangerment

I ask, because it seems like it must be. And yet, clearly, some people are taking it quite seriously. There are plenty of ways to answer such nonsense — anyone who actually listens to Limbaugh, or Levin, or Beck, etc., knows who the advertisers are, while also recognizing that the advertisers tend to sync up with the show’s messaging — but frankly, I prefer mine: “You’re fucking kidding me, right?”

When it comes to mandates, at least the Obama administration is consistent. — Or then again, maybe not.

The Constitution says we have a “right” to be able to collectively bargain against taxpayers — and that state lawmakers have no right to infringe upon this unalienable right. Also, the Constitution says it is wrong to do anything that might “weaken” the draw of public-sector union membership. And if it doesn’t say that? Well, that’s because it’s totally old and it sucks. QED.

Robert Reich uses the white board to teach progressive economics, with predictable results. Now, for those of you who have more than 2:15 to spend trying to understand how and why the capitalist, free-market, de-regulation model works far better than the progressive Keynesianism of a Reich, or a Krugman, or an Obama — and you can either believe the sawed-off socialist’s white board scribblings or your own lying eyes, you

— The GOP has your back. All you need do is trust them. Because they’d never try to sell you on “electable” candidates who don’t really represent you just to regain power and re-institute the “compassionate conservative” status quo, the one in which a Republican ruling class takes over the managed growth of government (and moves much less slowly toward the big government, social democratic Utopia nearly all establishment politicians

1. SEIU Catch-22 (or, “how I learned to stop worrying and love it when they begin eating their own”). h/t a fine scotch 2. Sen DeMint: Obama “believes Americans are stupid.” (h/t Dave O’C) 3. From CNS: “Christy Romero, the acting Special Inspector General for the TARP bank bailout program, told the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday that the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory law may not end the ‘too big

Courtesy David Thompson. If you’ve already seen this, apologies. But it is absolutely astounding — and one of the reasons I tend to view public safety officials, be they police or fire fighters, with a healthy dose of suspicion. Whereas being suspicious of local government and its petty tyrants is pretty much standard fare.

This story made me wonder if some courageous Asian-Americans couldn’t kill the Asian American quota system within the University of California system. Since the university system is discriminating against Asian-Americans on the basis of their race, which requires self-identification, I suggest everyone start self-identifying as African-American. You might say, no, that’s cheating. I say it is not – is there a statuatory definition of race? Is there some blood test

It’s like Jeremiah Johnson meets The Candidate, with a pinch of Easy Rider thrown in for good measure. Or maybe not. From Jim Geraghty’s review: By far, the most eye-opening part of the film — and no doubt, most useful to the presidential hopes of Palin — is the second act, detailing Palin’s time as Alaska’s governor. Oil companies are the relentless villain of Alaskan politics; in retrospect it seems