No, really. Look. Bunnies. Good lord, is this country ever fucked. (h/t Mark Steyn)

We’ve seen some of this before, most depressingly among many in the GOP ruling class who despise Sarah Palin for her (to their way of thinking) surprising successes. She doesn’t play by their rules — she isn’t, as David Brooks mewled, a “team player” (leave aside the fact that when she was, she was attacked in just the same way by the very same people, those who tend to be

Wait. Did that sound too, like, right-wing Visagothy? If so, I apologize to all the moderates and independents I’ve just now sent running back to Obama. Because I’ve learned that if there’s one thing voters hate worse than the combination of inflation, high-unemployment, plummeting home values, and an imperial leftwing president, it’s the whiff of debatable hyperbole from “extremists” who rape wikipedia entries. So. “Obama Commerce Nominee: U.S. Has ‘Obligation

— Which, unfortunately, is not only the opinion of ill-informed teens, hipster baristas, and WaPo wunderkind bloggers who refuse to drive because cars were like, invented over a hundred years ago. It is practically policy for this administration. Bill Wilson, ALG, on what he sees as progressive “trial balloons” presaging the pitch for another round of “quantitative easing” and even more “stimulus” proposals : Zillow reported last month that 28.4

Just think of it as a contribution toward cab fare for when I’m in New York later this month and I decide to swing by the UN building and urinate on the limos of delegates from those countries I just ain’t feelin’. — Or I guess you could just think of it as bail money. Either way. **** Saturday update: About half-way home, give or take a few beans. Thanks

In Obama’s America, the number of people on food stamps has jumped 39% — a percentage dwarfed by the left-liberal government’s increase in the acquisition of limousines, up 73%. Administration officials note that the increase in limos is part of an effort to better protect diplomats and other officials of government in a dangerous world; which makes sense, I guess, given the number of people now out of work who

She won’t send advance teams. She won’t provide an itinerary. She hasn’t phoned ahead to the local GOP headquarters to let them know she’s coming. She doesn’t tell the media where she’s going to be or when she’ll be there. And it’s driving the mainstream press to distraction — giving her the media coverage she needs, on her terms, because they just can’t quit her, and because they can’t help

Uh-oh: In bemoaning the pain of fiscal responsibility, the Democrats show they still haven’t learned the lessons of Europe. So writes Newsweek. Newsweek. Let me repeat that again. So writes Newsweek: To American commentators, notably New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, the lesson is clear. “In Europe,” he wrote last week, “the pain caucus has been in control for more than a year, insisting that sound money and balanced budgets

* 9. blueberry 8. (tie) poppy / stabbing Sharon Tate repeatedly with a giant knife, killing both the actress and her unborn baby, then smearing the walls with some arcane — but delightfully insouciant! — social commentary in blood. 7. climbing into a trashbag and settling down in the mud after having torn your own clothes, smeared yourself with shit, and written racist epithets all over your own body —

Double dip! Nationally, house prices are back to where they were in mid-2002, according to S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices data for March, released this morning. Prices on the national index, the 20-City Composite Index and the indices for 12 of the 20 metropolitan areas set new lows for the recession this month, and in four of the areas – Atlanta, Cleveland, Detroit and Las Vegas – house prices have retreated