We all buy this and “read” it together? If for no other reason than a NYT business writer is involved in what is amounts to a massive, factual fisting of credentialed frauds like Paul Krugman, and an indictment of the Democrats, big government, crony capitalism, and the power-hungry machinations of leftist governance that has weakened this country to the point of near collapse. Here’s Walter Russell Meade’s review, courtesy Rush

— that he’d bankrupt the coal industry. That energy prices would “necessarily skyrocket”. He told us he’d spread the wealth. He told us (well, those who were both willing to listen, and who didn’t think they could wring more credibility and populist respectability out of pretending otherwise) he was aiming to “transform” the country, that the Constitution was a “flawed” document, and that the end goal was “social justice” —

It’s a shame facebook doesn’t allow things like this to be published in purple ink, with hearts above all the i’s: President Obama wants to give Russia our missile defense secrets because he believes that we can buy their friendship and cooperation with this taxpayer-funded gift. But giving military secrets and technologies to a rival or competitor like Russia is just plain dumb. You can’t buy off Russia. And giving

When the going gets tough, the tough surrender, call for comity, prop up Romney and Huntsman, and come together for the kind of full-throated attack on conservatives and classical liberals that they can never seem to muster against Democrats and socialists: Members of Congress in both parties don’t believe the controversial Medicare reforms drafted by the House Republican Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan will be a part of an eventual

I’m not familiar with Jim Lacey, but I can tell you this much: he gets it. NRO: If our best days truly are before us, we must release those willing to dare all and let them get to it. Government has a role in society, but it is a limited one. Over the last 50 years, American government has ignored the limits it was founded on and become a pervasive

Would it be all, like, Visigothy of me to suggest we’re living in a soft tyranny that is practicing to become a more seasoned, respectably hard tyranny…? (thanks to Entropy)

Is it doable? Who knows. It’s certainly possible, however difficult. But more importantly, it’s a goal that appeals to growth, prosperity, exceptionalism, and American industriousness and optimism. That is, a “Yes we can” that those of us who don’t favor larger government, decreased individual freedom, and the new normal of “social justice” that promises to punish the successful and “raise up” the unproductive — that is, to stoke class envy

NRD: Just one day after House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan explained to the President what his proposal to save Medicare entails, and Majority Leader Cantor urged the Democrats to quit demogoguing the issue, former Speaker Pelosi told ABC News, “What we want is to change the view that the Republicans have that it is OK to abolish Medicare [and] to make seniors pay more for less while we give

Breaking Back: Who the fuck cares? No, really, that wasn’t even a rhetorical question this time. Who the fuck actually cares? And shouldn’t we be allowed to hunt them for sport — humanely — so that they don’t become overpopulated and helpless and wind up confusedly bumping into display cases and shelving in supermarkets?

“Marin turtle’s trek has biologists amazed”: A western pond turtle appears to have made an incredible journey across Marin County in the past two years, traveling some 18 miles and making his way around large dams on a trek from Ross to near Point Reyes Station. […] Point Reyes National Seashore herpetologist Gary Fellers said it is possible for a western pond turtle to travel several miles. “It is within