Even as House speaker John Boehner signals a desperate desire to take whatever crumbs the Dems will throw him to avoid a government shutdown, the Senate GOP, despite its slight minority status, is doing much of the heavy ideological lifting for fiscal conservatism. And this new BBA — which would limit government spending to 18% of GDP and call for supermajority votes to raise both taxes and the debt ceiling

Yet again, it looks as though the governmental solution to a problem is not to solve the actual problem; it is to define the problem away. CNS: Richard M. Stana, director of homeland security and justice issues at the Government Accountability Office (which is responsible for “auditing agency operations to determine whether federal funds are being spent efficiently and effectively”), told the Senate Homeland Security Committee yesterday that the federal

One of my favorite live performances of all time. I saw this the night it appeared and went and bought the CD the next day.

Kinetic Humanitarian Action = kill them all, let God sort it out. Take a good look, people. Because this is what a world run by academic postmodernists looks like: A clown college wherein Italian wingtips have replaced big floppy shoes and several dozen confused countries try stuffing themselves into the boot of a Volkswagon. Next up: Obama announces his plan to fight joblessness by rounding up the unemployed and slaughtering

“I have this one obese, nosy neighbor who keeps threatening to go before the city council to petition for a law that would make it illegal for me to call her a fat-assed busybody. But I don’t think she’ll get very far. What with the city council being comprised entirely of rutabagas. “– Which are root vegetables, by the way. And so have no thumbs. Thank Christ.”

Terence Jeffrey, CNS: Imagine that you had an average monthly income of about $170 balanced against average monthly expenses of about $940–and that you were more than $14,000 in debt. Then imagine that as of today, you had only $58.60 in cash left in your bank account and $130.50 left on your line of credit. Now multiply these numbers by 1 billion and you will have the up-to-date financial situation

Courts telling legislatures that the rules of the legislative body are subject to oversight by county judges, and that county judges know more about those rules than the civil servant whose job it is to inform and advise the legislature on following its own rules. — Which, it follows, permits county court judges to rule that published laws are not laws unless they are first agreed to by county court

“Now, let me be clear, Billy Jack –- I suffered no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He was a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchered his own people to secure his own power. He repeatedly defied U.N. resolutions, thwarted U.N. inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity. He was a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, are better off without him. But

RUN!: The U.S. government said Wednesday that traces of radiation have been found in milk in Washington state […]. The Environmental Protection Agency said a March 25 sample of milk produced in the Spokane, Wash., area contained a 0.8 pico curies per literlevel of iodine-131 […]. The EPA said it increased monitoring after radiation leaked from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. It expects more such findings in coming days […].