Freedom? Choice? High-minded claptrap. The government knows what’s best for you, and the courts agree: All or nothing. At least that is what a federal judge says about government entitlements. Judge Rosemary Collyer recently ruled that Social Security recipients must take the government’s form of health care—Medicare. […] This recent ruling is the result of a lawsuit filed in 2008 by several senior citizens challenging the federal government to allow

I mean, throw in 2012 (can we really count on John Cusack to save us?), and it’s like, hello! — you might want to stock up on canned goods, batteries, bear traps, and high-powered rifles. Maybe invest in a kayak. Squirrel away some fishing poles. And hide your hooked noses and circumcisions. Devils.*

The House GOP establishment celebrated its hard-fought $6 billion budget cut on a day in which the US government spent $72 billion. Optics and conservative-pitched rhetoric remain all that is important to these elected show ponies — and at least the GOP House leadership believes we’ll be satisfied that they are doing all they can to satisfy the mandate Americans gave them in November. When of course they are not.

Just a guy Obama knew from the neighborhood. Who also happened to write the book that so many in the political class, both left and right, swooned over on their way to helping install the least vetted — and most demonstrably leftist — “historical” President in US history. Jack Cashill: Last Thursday evening at Montclair State University, with a video camera rolling, Bill Ayers volunteered that yes indeed he had

True, Professor Brian Kiteley reacted as if I’d called for Biblehumping hicks to take up arms against their more polished and civilized betters, but what I’d actually predicted was a soft civil war that would manifest through changes in demographics, with people self-separating by geographical locale along political and public policy lines. And it looks like I may have been on to something. Michael Barone, writing in the Washington Examiner,

sales lady at Nordstrom: “Okay, well, what kind of socks are you looking for, exactly? We have traditional white athletic socks in this department, or we have a variety of colored socks –” me: “– RACIST! –” sales lady at Nordstrom: “– that we display separately –” me: “– JIM CROW! HATE!” sales lady at Nordstrom: me: sales lady at Nordstrom: me: me: “So, does this place have a lunch

RIP, Ms Ferraro: Geraldine Ferraro, who in 1984 became the first woman vice presidential candidate on a major party ticket, died Saturday in Boston, a family spokeswoman said. Ferraro died at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she was being treated for blood cancer. She died just before 10 a.m., said Amanda Fuchs Miller, a family friend who worked for Ferraro in her 1998 Senate bid and was acting as a spokeswoman

Sledgehammer deadlift: take a sledgehammer with a handle of at least 31″ (most standard hammers are 32-33″). Lay the sledgehammer on the ground, hammerhead end farthest from you with striking surfaces positioned straight up and down. Standing parallel to the hammer and facing the hammer’s head, grab the end of the hammer’s handle farthest from the head, at about 31″ up the handle. Lift the sledgehammer up so that it