Writes geoffb in an email Obama’s gift was said to be able to give a speech and have all sides believe he was with them heart and soul. With the one yesterday he has shown a new related talent. He now makes a speech and everyone hears exactly what they fully expect him to say, even when those things are diametrically opposed, or orthogonal to each other. Example Example Example

Not sure what to make of this, but listening to the radio just now, I heard “Bibi” call in and dedicate the following to “BHO”: May you always live in interesting times…

Washington Examiner: Businesses often consider government interference when they make decisions about where to locate. One instance of such interference is the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, which established a regimen of special treatment for labor during an era when nearly one in three employees were union members. Today, unions have lost relevance for more than 93 percent of American workers in the private sector, but the distortions of

— And how to fuck them. Obama: “the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines.” You know, back before the last time the Arab world attacked Israel unprovoked. I hope this finally awakens American Jews, whose unwavering commitment to voting Democrat is based on the same need to feel accepted by intellectuals as is Obama’s desire to appease Arabs and legitimize their anti-semitism as a

When you’re a leftist President and you lose both Cornel West and Peter Fonda, you’ve lost your base. That you’ve done so because you are playing chess while Fonda and West — truly, cartoons of academic and cultural leftism — are playing checkers, just reinforces how truly brilliant you are. Plus, you can now sell yourself as a centrist. So. Carry on.

Feel that rush of sweet warm air, tinged with the smell of peonies? That’s the Arab Spring — and Barack Husein Obama gave that to the world!* Of course, the EPA will need to regulate the excesss greenhouse gas emissions. And somebody’s going to have to clean up all the dead Jews. But still! —

First, it’s odd when you look out of your office window during a sudden rainstorm and see a pair of wild turkeys galloping through your yard. That is, it’s odd if live in an area not traditionally associated with wild turkey foot traffic. As I do. And second, it’s odd when, having blurted out your surprise at seeing a pair of wild turkeys galloping through your yard in a sudden

Lock box! Starting in 2010, Social Security began to permanently spend more than it takes in. This is by far the most important year. From now on, Social Security will require large and growing amounts of general revenue money in order to pay all of its promised benefits. Even though this money will technically come from cashing in the special issue bonds in the trust fund, the money to repay

ALG examines the Bureau of Labor Statistics report for April and finds some troubling dissonance: […] bad news in the employment report was overshadowed by the contradictory claim in the report that 244,000 new private sector jobs were created by the economy in April. While I wish the economy had grown by almost a quarter of a million jobs, it is hard to reconcile this number with the reality of

“The IRS Gets Political,” WSJ: We’re starting to see a pattern here. Since the Supreme Court restored the First Amendment rights of businesses and unions in last year’s Citizens United ruling, Democrats have been searching for a way to claw back control over political speech. The latest bureau to get the memo is the Internal Revenue Service, which may retroactively tax top donors to political advocacy groups. In the crossroads,