Byron York, Washington Examiner: Republican strategists have a problem. The scale of what President Barack Obama proposes to do to the American economy is so enormous, so far-reaching and so potentially disastrous that the opposition party is having a hard time describing it. “How do you translate the numbers into something that people can grasp to represent the broader problem?” a Republican pollster asked in a recent conversation. John Boehner,

Norm MacDonald — one of the edgiest and most talented comedians since Kaufman (and before Mitch Hedberg) roasts Clinton and the Dems at the 1997 Correspondents Association Dinner. Part 1: Part 2:

But if you want to witness the disgusting spectacle of Stacy McCain milking Carrie Prejean’s breasts for every precious link, feel free.

Driving back from dropping Aidan at school, I heard Peter Orszag, Director of the OMB, interviewed. Three things really stood out, for me. The first was that, in recounting his recent sit-down with health care execs, he stated that massive savings could be realized by eliminating “unnecessary tests and procedures” that add nothing to patient health. It’s true that there are probably tests and procedures that are unnecessary on occasion,

In late April, marketing professor at the University of Georgia, shot and killed three people near downtown Athens, then dropped his kids off at a neighbor’s house. Yesterday, a cadaver dog found his body in a nearby woods. One of his hobbies had been poetry, some specimens of which he posted at the website of the American Marketing Association. Here’s a sample: B-School ARC:Etc.:Arts:Marketing as Life: sailing on the accountancy

At Salon: Watching Sykes, I was so pleased. I thought: My God, there’s never been a better match for Limbaugh. He’s an entertainer and a comedian – I despise him, but every once in a while he’s funny – and he’s regularly off color; Sykes is all those things while, in my opinion, funnier and less cruel. But let’s be honest: We had comedian and entertainer v. comedian and entertainer.

I honestly hadn’t given too much thought to Wanda Sykes’ rather predictably meanspirited attempts to skewer Rush Limbaugh at the correspondent’s dinner last evening — it being de rigeur these days for the wannabe edgy to take shots at Limbaugh, and to receive at least tacit official sanction for doing so. And the President’s reaction suggested that she’d done just that. Had I more respect for Obama, I’d have expressed

For those of you who missed it, an interesting argument broke out in response to Darleen’s posting of Dennis Prager’s Prager University “American Trinity” video. To quickly summarize, Prager talks about what he’s identified as the three foundational American “values” (e pluribus unum, liberty, God), using the word “values” as a kind of colloquial synonym for “principles” — specifically, the foundational principles of the US experiment. He then differentiates the

SPOILER WARNING (I think Great Mencken’s Ghost wanted that here) It was a good thing that we arrived at the theater early for the movie, yesterday, because apparently tons of moms are Star Trek nerds, and tons of families decided to celebrate Mother’s Day the same way we did (after the brunch and church &ct.). Kirk canoodles with a green alieness. There’s an earthquake and rocks tumble. There’s lots of

Listen, chum! He’s got radioactive cum! Look out: there goes the Spider Man.