Unless and until those who people the contemporary socialist movement revert to donning berets and going full-on khaki, or carrying little red books in their tiny utilitarian shirt pockets, or referring to themselves as numbers like a cadre of high-ranking SPECTRE villains, the nuanced pragmatic conservatives of the stripe who backed McCain and mocked the TEA Party at its birth wouldn’t recognize a Marxist if several of them clenched themselves

So, Jeff, what is the rule for limiting access to the stage? There has to be a “barrier to entry” or is it come one, come all? Yeah, that’ll beat the president. Were I to be glib, I’d start my answer by suggesting that one thing we shouldn’t be doing as a “barrier to entry” is, after the fact, calling for the “exile” from future debates of the man many

But that won’t keep him from telling us who should be allowed to run for the GOP nomination and who should be, well, not: This is why the GOP needs to rethink its debate schedule and why the RNC should take over the operation of the debates and exile Cain, Johnson and Paul as well as every other candidate without a prayer of winning. (Santorum is a long shot, but

Well, then. I haven’t been this shocked since the official announcement that Clay Aiken was gay as pomegranate martini.

To the establishment pols, Cain struggled. To the Frank Luntz focus group who watched the debate, Cain was the clear winner. So now it’s the duty of the establishment pols and the establishment media to assure us that Cain can’t win: Still, no matter how bright Cain shone last night, he has little chance of winning the nomination. While he has some personal money, he doesn’t have nearly enough cash

NRD: When you filed your taxes this year, did you get a refund larger than the amount the government withheld from your paycheck? If you were one of the 23.1 million tax filers who benefitted from federal government share-the-wealth schemes like the Earned Income Tax Credit, you were effectively put on welfare according to the Congressional Joint Tax Committee. An incredible 15.5 million of these tax filers actually received more

Sorry, was out at dinner. It being Cinco de Mayo, I had the fish.

Not everybody is willing to pretend that Obama’s “gutsy” call to take out public enemy number 1 — after sleeping on it, and dithering for several months — was all that gutsy after all. And of course, with this President, you either show the proper deference, or you get the back, bitch. Ms Burlingame, of course, raises the important point our media will not: why is Eric Holder still “investigating”

Stimulus! […] home prices now sit 0.7% below their March 2009 low. Over the past nine months, they’re down 11.5%. This is ugly, to be sure. Nationally, home prices declined 5.0% over the past year. All four regions of the U.S. saw their prices decline, year-over-year: * Midwest: -6.3% * West: -6.2% * South: -5.2% * Northeast: -1.6% Clear Capital blames the rapid decline in prices on the saturation of

But don’t worry: if the media keeps telling us that the economy is recovering, and that we have Barack Obama to thank for that (when he’s not killing terrorists, or making the wetlands safe for silverfish or some such), then it really must be so! The rest is just racist TEA Party types being all divisive and extreme and whatnot. Reuters: The number of Americans filing for jobless aid rose