As with Putin, one has to admire the chutzpah. And expect the Left to argue that this isn’t that big a deal. That the order only applies to those who’ve been here already. That the order only applies to those who meat the “strict conditions” of deportation relief. That deportations have been up. That no… Read More His Imperial Highness Emperor Barack I, the Lightbringer, Has So Ordered
Discharged from the Naval Reserve after testing positive for cocaine? Regrettable. But to begin disbarrment hearings? That would require conviction of a crime. Prosecute him? For Cocaine? Why would we do that?
It’s not the post that Friday needs, but the post the Friday deserves: Stacy McCain Links Ray Rice and Gone With the Wind, and it’s a Full Read the Whole Thing. Ashley Wilkes becomes more manly than Rhett Butler in his formulation. I know, I know. Just go with it. At the Federalist, some lovely… Read More Friday Linkfest: This, That, and T’other
Megan McArdle gets the nature of the problem, in a very sensible article on the VA. You can’t fire government bureaucrats – especially not en masse, so matter what you do, old patterns re-emerge. Every “reform” just adds a new set of directives and rules without trimming or significantly changing the old ones. What that means… Read More Why Government Bureaucracies are Un-Fixable
I first read Ayn Rand in college, and enjoyed her insofar as she expressed things I had previously pondered but never fully articulated. Her philosophy attempted to wed Aristotle with dialectical materialism, and I’m not entirely sure how well she pulled it off. But she did hit upon some under-spoken truths in her major works,… Read More The Discreet Charms of the New Class
The true believer truly believes. Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis — how incentives influence behavior — to government. It shows how elected officials and bureaucrats pursue personal aggrandizement as much as people do in the… Read More George Will Explains it Very Slowly to Barack Obama
Vladimir Putin seized, or received, or something, power from Boris Yeltsin on the last day of the 20th century. The 1990’s had been a dreadful time for Russia, and Putin has seemed hell-bent on restoring power and strength to the Motherland. While it may be overstating matters to claim that his New York Times Op-Ed… Read More The Triumph of Vladimir Putin
Buzzfeed started it, albeit with the typically overwrought headline (3 things = Everything. Ever). Now NRO is saying, you know, Romneycare really wasn’t anything like Obamacare: The best way to think about Romneycare is on a left-right scale of 1 to 10. If 10 is a libertarian utopia, and 1 is a left-wing dystopia, Governor… Read More Rehabilitating Romney
He’s found a way to make even George Bush popular.
A few weeks ago, when it was first discovered that the White House was tapping the phone records of the House of Representatives, I threw up a bit of snark on Twitter. @rsmccain @leatherpenguin at this point, I’m expecting to turn around and see Eric Holder reading my tweetdeck. #FortheChildren — Andrew Patrick (@ajpwriter) May… Read More The Government is Watching Me Type These Words
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