Breitbart: Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the court’s oldest member and leader of its liberal bloc, says he is retiring. President Barack Obama now has his second high court opening to fill. Stevens says he will step down when the court finishes its work for the summer in late June or early July. His announcement Friday in Washington had been hinted at for months. It comes 11 days before
VAT are vee vaiting for?
I suspect we’ll start seeing more “concern” over an unsustainable economy as the progressive push begins for a VAT tax. Key to the campaign will be to pretend that the unsustainable tax-and-spend economy just kinda happened — and that a VAT tax, which is the next step toward more complete bureaucratic control of the economy — is just the fix we need to avoid economic disaster. Will any mention be
Broad brush
“If Republicans are tired of being called redneck bigots and racist yahoos every time they turn around, then there’s an easy fix: Stop acting that way.” And if that doesn’t work, the unclean bastards can always throw their support behind social policies that reinforce preference based on race. Because honestly, nothing says “end racism now!” quite like legislation that uses race as the deciding factor in determining government contracts or
Corey Haim’s “Notes from the Afterlife,” 6
One of the cooler things about Heaven is its coed intramural softball games. First off, there are no winners or losers, because we’ve made it a rule that you can’t keep score — the idea being that once you remove the element of competition, everyone can relax and not worry about striking out, or booting ground balls, or being on the wrong end of some bulked-up jock’s macho bullshit blame
Getting what you paid for
Dr Boyce Watkins, founder of the Your Black World Coalition and the initiator of the National Conversation on Race, writing for MSNBC: Obama’s race problem just got a little deeper. As the rest of the country is starting to see light at the end of the economic tunnel, the African American community just walked into a deeper, darker crawl space than the one it was in before. The Bureau of
Provocateurism, 10
So I was reading this morning about how “Violence on the border endangers Americans,” and it got me to thinking about what Nishi and happy have been obliquely arguing of late — namely, that should conservatives / classical liberals become vocal over forthcoming high-profile immigration “reform” proposals, their subsequent depiction by both the media and lawmakers (of both parties, potentially) as ravaging nativists and xenophobes will go a long way
Legal Science Fictions
Ronald Bailey, “Red Ink and Green Jobs,” Reason: In 2006, when California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a mandate for dramatic reduction of greenhouse gasses into law, the state’s economy was in a very different place. Unemployment was 4.5 percent and residents felt rich thanks to inflated home values. Today, 12.5 percent of Californians are out of work, the state is in budgetary meltdown, and Californians are re-evaluating their priorities. Economic
“Five things we learned about Obamacare after it passed”
[W]e have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.” — Nancy Pelosi Yes, she actually said that — right before she shot a man just to see if he would die. Good freakin’ lord.
The Rape of “The Rape of Liberty”
Via David Thompson, Elle Gray in The Guardian: Then, I saw a cartoon, the “creative” work of a conservative blogger, that depicted the aftermath of the rape of the Statue of Liberty by President Obama. My first thought was, oh, hello, yet another idea reinforced during reconstruction and redemption – the myth of the sexually violent black man. This “brute” was a particular danger to white women and this myth
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, abridged, 35
When you find yourself heading into a spill, the proper thing to do is relax and trust your leather. At worst, you experience a surrender of the ego; at best, you move to a new realm of consciousness, becoming one with the road — or, if things don’t go exactly as planned, with about a half-dozen giant tires on a trailing semi. Which is almost as liberating.*
