And it hasn’t been warranted either.  Rasmussen Reports on whether Americans feel that America is on the right track: Democrats are now evenly divided on this question: 48% say right direction, while 48% say wrong track.  A majority of Republicans (87%) and voters not affiliated with either political party (69%) continue to believe the country […]

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I have yet to understand how the Demotards justify the idea that in order to get government spending under control, it needs to spend more and put it all on the company credit card. Luca Di Leo via The Wall Street Journal: In several congressional hearings this year, Mr. Bernanke has warned lawmakers that U.S. […]

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Naftali Bendavid, Valerie Bauerlein And Stephanie Simon of The Wall Street Journal: Ms. Lincoln avoided becoming the third senator this year to be defeated by her own party. Labor unions and liberal groups had sought to make an example of Ms. Lincoln for her deviation from liberal positions, putting millions of dollars behind Lt. Gov. […]

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Arthur Laffer via The Wall Street Journal: And it’s also simple enough for most people to understand that if the government taxes people who work and pays people not to work, fewer people will work. Incentives matter.

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Apparently, the advisory board whose single task is to find creative ways to cut the federal deficit wants needs more money.

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Though I doubt that the residents of hell are seeing ice crystals form, it’s fair odds that they felt a chilly breeze when the The New York Times lamented that a Federal Court recently upheld unprecedented amounts of executive power.  An anonymous editorialist: One of the most vital jobs of the federal courts is to […]

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Though it certainly shouldn’t be taken as an indication that the war on drugs will be coming to a close, this new memo from Attorney General Holder is a step in the right direction.  Mike Scarcella via The National Law Journal: Sentencing Commission Vice Chairman William Carr Jr. said the Holder memo “clearly” gives more […]

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Julian Sanchez via Newsweek: we now take for granted that the interstate-commerce power constitutes a blank check, not just when Congress seeks to rectify gross historical iniquity, but for such purposes as overriding state decisions to permit local cultivation of medical marijuana. I wonder how quickly the classic Libertard argument that states rights is a […]

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Randall C. Archibold via The New York Times: President Obama will send up to 1,200 National Guard troops to the Southwest border and increase spending on law enforcement, yielding to demands from both Republican and Democratic lawmakers there that border security be tightened, administration officials said. I don’t want to argue that we don’t need […]

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Michael M. Grynbaum via The New York Times: And the encounters [being spat on], while distressing, appeared to take a surprisingly severe toll: the 51 drivers who went on paid leave after a spitting incident took, on average, 64 days off work — the equivalent of three months with pay. One driver, who was not […]

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