If you haven’t gotten enough of Barack Obama lecturing on constitutional law, just wait until you get a chance to read the White House’s take on presidential history. Rory Cooper at the Heritage Foundation was the first to notice that the Obama administration edited the official presidential histories on the White House website to include a blurb about Obama on the page dedicated to Ronald Reagan. Commentary’s Seth Mandel followed up and found numerous other examples:

Every President since Coolidge has a blurb connecting them to Obama, except for Ford. Hot Air has the whole list. This is typical:

President Herbert Hoover signed the bill founding the Department of Veterans Affairs July 21, 1930. President Obama is committed to making sure that the VA, the second-largest cabinet department, serves the needs of all veterans and provides a seamless transition from active duty to civilian life, and has directed his Administration to modernize the way health care is delivered and benefits are administered for our nation’s veterans. First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden launched Joining Forces to mobilize all sectors of society to give our service members and their families the opportunities and support they have earned.

Now this isn’t an outrage or anything. And perhaps other Presidents did this too. But … really, it’s so petty and egotistical and so typical. They’re really having someone go through Presidential biographies and do this?

I think the proper response to this is mockery. Viz, National Review:

In the 12th Century B.C., Moses the Lawgiver delivered the Ten Commandments to the Israelites. President Obama the Lawgiver has added significantly to them, overseeing the enactment of a record number of new regulations.

Use the comments for your suggestions. I’ll start with Gerald Ford, since they skipped him. In 1976, Gerald Ford said, “There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford Administration.” Today, President Obama is working hard to make sure that there is Soviet — or at least Russian — Domination of Eastern Europe.

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On Monday, the U.S. Navy will officially announce the ships for its demonstration of the “Great Green Fleet” — an entire aircraft carrier strike group powered by biofuels and other eco-friendly energy sources. If a powerful congressional panel has its way, it could be the last time the Navy ever uses biofuels to run its ships and jets.

In its report on next year’s Pentagon budget, the House Armed Services Committee banned the Defense Department from making or buying an alternative fuel that costs more than a “traditional fossil fuel.” It’s a standard that may be almost impossible to meet, energy experts believe; there’s almost no way the tiny, experimental biofuel industry can hope to compete on price with the massive, century-old fossil fuels business.

The greens are up in arms about this but the shouldn’t be. Biofuels cost anywhere from four to ten times as much as fossil fuels. And as I keep saying, price communicates information. In this case, the information that biofuels are inefficient, dirty and environmentally unsound (read Rolling Stone’s article on ethanol here). Moreover, many of the fuels they are using — such as waste grease — are unlikely to be sustainable on a large scales.

There is one thing to complain about: the bill removes the restrictions on alternative fuels that pollute more than traditional fuels, which could open up the dirty methods like Fischer-Tropsch (which Wired, in a remarkable display of journalistic objectivity, reminds us was used by Nazi Germany and Apartheid South Africa).

But biofuels are simply not ready for prime time. This isn’t “stimulating” an industry to develop. This is corporate welfare designed to prop up dirty inefficiency fuels that can not compete with fossil fuels — let alone nuclear — in efficiency, price or environmental impact.

There are some energy efficiencies the military is finding — using solar power in Aghanistan or software that runs ships more efficiently. But this is simply playing politics and wasting money. End it.

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These people really are shameless.

(And while I’m up … it’s still disgusting how insurance companies charging women more because they use more healthcare is seen as some evil plot needing government intrusion. It shows that the Left really don’t understand what insurance is. Insurance is risk management. I just had a $20,000 surgery, which would have been a devastating cost, but was manageable because it was effectively spread out over the insurance payments I make every month. Seen that way, I should be charged more if I am likely to use more healthcare.

To the Obamaites, health insurance is redistribution. It’s about getting other people to pay for your healthcare. This is why they see charging women more as evil: we’re all supposed to be equal — except the politicians, of course, who are more equal than others.)

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There was no Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or sexting when several fellow students at a posh Detroit-area prep school say 18-year-old Romney led a boy posse to hold down one among them perceived as different and snip off his bleached blond hair.

The victim, John Lauber, is dead now, but The Washington Post reported when it broke the story that he was “perpetually teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality” and screamed for help. Though he eventually left the school — kicked out for smoking a cigarette while Romney was not punished — indications are Lauber simply endured, as many of today’s victims are forced to do despite the flood of anti-bullying campaigns in schools and out, advocates said.

The response to this has been, to say the least, interesting. Romney first denied it, then expressed regret. Breitbart, continuing its descent since its founders’ death, is claiming the story is “disintegrating” since one of the victim’s sisters doesn’t remember it and WaPo’s initial report had an error. The Left has shifted focus onto Romney’s response.

But these discussions keep inevitably coming back to the salient point of this issue: Mitt Romney was 16 years old when it happened. 16-year-olds are — and I say this a former 16-year-old myself — assholes. Neurologically, they are assholes. The prefrontal lobe that governs impulse control is not fully developed. And research has shown that teenagers are less empathic to their fellows than even infants. Teenagers are assholes. And anyone who thinks they weren’t an asshole in their teen years is looking into their past through rose-tinted glasses.

I sure was an asshole teen. I could talk about my parents or siblings, but there is one incident in particular that stands out. Back in Hebrew School, we had a kid who was different and he was made fun of relentlessly. I don’t recall how much I participated, but I certainly never stopped it. The only way it was stopped was when the Rabbi sat us down and really laid into us, telling us the young man had already attempted suicide and that we were doing was vicious, sinful and a disgrace to our faith and God (the Torah actually contains more laws governing cruel words than just about any other crime). We backed off but only after we were raked over the coals.

(I was bullied a lot in elementary school. But by high school, I’d basically become invisible to everyone, which suited me fine.)

The continual hounding of a kid is awful. This was not an isolated incident. But … Mitt Romney did not invent bullying. He did invent homophobia. He did not originate the idea of forcefully cutting long hair. He was born into a culture that tolerated and encouraged such things.

This is a non story. And Romney’s response is another non-story. He denies, backpedals and obfuscates about everything. This is who he is and this is what he does. Now we’re noticing this?

What I find particularly bothersome is the attention paid to this story when there are real-life, deadly bullying incidents going on all the time. And they are going under official government approval. And both candidates support the vast majority of it as they vie to become, given their policies, Bully in Chief.

You want to talk about bullies? How about Barack Obama’s Justice Department, harassing legal marijuana clinics, threatening them with tax audits and terrifying their landlords with threats of asset forfeiture? How about eminent domain seizures that strip poor people of their property in favor of the rich — theft upheld by the God damned Supreme Court? How about the War on Drugs, with its violent no-knock raids, unconstitutional urine tests, and puppycides. How about New York City, which is frisking more black men every year than there are black men in New York City?

And it goes deeper than that. The Institute for Justice just published a report on how licensing bullies business owners. The EPA was only last month told they could not bully homeowners with compliance orders that force them to do the EPA’s bidding under threats of bankrupting fines. Every new titan of industry, from Amazon to Yahoo, quickly finds that they will be bullied like hell if they don’t play the Washington game.

You want to talk about bullying? Video was just released showing the brutal and fatal police beating of Kelly Thomas. Have you seen this video on the national news? Has it gotten a hundredth of the coverage that something Mitt Romney did half a century ago has gotten?

What the government does on a daily basis — what it will continue to do under either of the Presidential candidates — is far more of a concern to me than what Mitt Romney did when he was an arrogant jerk-ass teenager. And it is encourage, carried out and sanctioned by adults who continually insist that all this is for our own good.

This is bullshit. This is a distraction. This is one of the stupidest stories to emerge in the election. I can only imagine what ridiculous idiocy will surface next week.

Post Scriptum: You want to talk about Presidential bullies? Read up on the Left’s much-beloved Lyndon Johnson sometime.

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House Democrats received training this week on how to raise the issue of race to defend government programs, according to training materials obtained by The Washington Examiner.

The prepared content of a Tuesday presentation to the House Democratic Caucus and staff indicates that Democrats will seek to portray apparently neutral free-market rhetoric as being charged with racial bias, conscious or unconscious.

In her distributed remarks, Maya Wiley of the Center for Social Inclusion criticized “conservative messages [that are] racially ‘coded’ and had images of people of color that we commonly see used” and proposed tactics for countering the Republicans’ (presumably) racially-coded rhetoric.

Collectivism 101: since you know you can not use logic, facts, or the truth to win, make up ridiculous shit that makes the other side evil and uncaring. This is just like CM’s constant attempts to get us to engage him in discussing income disparity. The argument gets framed and conducted in such a way that it allows him to then say we are uncaring, because we do not want to allow the left to do even more social engineer – to address an injustice that really is more about envy and jealousy than anything else, because their solution isn’t to free people so they can make more, but to punish those that do and do not pay homage to the left’s crusade – and completely misses the point that this social engineering always fails and causes misery, as over 100 years of collectivist history, and more importantly, the world wide economic depression we find ourselves in as the home ownership lending social engineering experiment brought us all low 4 1/2 years ago. I need to mention that the problems behind the latest crisis still remain. The social engineers simply piled on even more social engineering, and pretended this time people would suddenly start behaving like angels.

Anyway, back to the race baiters getting training so they can more effectively lie about their opposition and make the LSM’s job of propagating those lies easier. If you doubt that the envy driven collectivist social engineers aren’t planning a campaign of lies, just read this:

According to Wiley’s group’s website, “right-wing rhetoric has dominated debates of racial justice – undermining efforts to create a more equal society, and tearing apart the social safety net in the process” for over 25 years. Wiley had been invited to run the Democrats “through their strategy and how they message and talk about stuff” pertaining to race and fiscal policy, a staffer for Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., explained.

Check that web site out. Holy freaking insane bullshit! These class warriors have no shame at all. In fact, they feel superior and more moral by pushing this garbage. It’s as if the USSR never happened, and North Korea is a paradise. But it gets better.

As samples of race-coded rhetoric, Wiley reminded the Democrats of statements by Republican presidential candidates Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich. Of Gingrich’s famous comment about President Obama, her distributed remarks note, “Calling a Black man ‘the food stamp president’ is not a race-neutral statement, even if Newt Gingrich did not intend racism.”

This is akin to making the ludicrous and deceptive argument that pointing out that a male pedophile that preys on little boys is and evil being that destroyed the lives of those poor kids, is an attack on all gay people. It’s nonsense. Nobody in their right mind should take it seriously. In fact, gay people should be offended by anyone that makes this sort of overreach, because basically it is the people making the argument that the pedophile should not be called out that are making the connection.

Basically what we have here is the democrats trying to shut down any and all criticism of Obama because nobody can have any legitimate reason to criticize him unless they are racists. Fuck them and the horse they rode in on. If Obama was green I would still point out how stupid he, the democrats, the vile nonsense they believe in, and the destructive policies they have put in place and continue to pile on, are.

The last 3 ½ years have been disastrous for us. The people that decried Bush for a $250 billion annual budget deficit in 2006 took power and then proceeded to jack that number up to $1.25 trillion per annum. Even worse, Bush was, correctly I add, excoriated for allowing nearly $5 trillion in new debt to be tacked on in 8 years. Obama has tacked more than that in 3 ½ measly fucking years, with thrice that number projected a decade after Team Blue took over the budget responsibility. Speaking of budgets, I should point out that Reid’s Team Blue controlled senate has now avoided passing a spending bill for almost than 3 years now.

We also have the EPA making its own laws and enforcing them with disastrous economic consequences after the cowards that held majority positions and all power in both houses failed to pass the “Cap & Tax” bill. Barney and Chris wrote some 2000+ pages of new regulations. To prevent another mortgage lending meltdown, like the last one that was indubitably of their making, they told us. But all those dead trees covered with more bullshit left the fundamental and underlying problem – the left’s need to social engineer home ownership – intact. Who wants to bet this works out well?

And then there is Obamacare. They told us we needed to wait until it was passed to find out what would be in it. Rigged the CBO scoring so they could lie to us and pretend that it would have a both a positive economic and medical impact. They had to bribe their own tribe members, be it in politics or in the field, with hundreds of billions in favors, exceptions, and exclusions. And most importantly, they exempted themselves and their biggest donors from it all. Now we are discovering this thing is going to control 1/6 of our economy and only get bigger, will cost us probably at least twice what they projected, and if we go by other liberal dream programs like Social Security, will cost multiple times more than the worst case projections, and that the medical care quality will suffer and suffer drastically. Let’s not forget the plethora of job killing efforts by these bastards either. From the XL Pipeline, which seems more about protecting Warren Buffet’s profits and hence his donations to Team Blue than anything else, to the war against coal, which resulted in a convicted WW inmate scoring 40% of the democrat vote in a runoff against Obama, they tell us they want their vision of renewable and clean energy. That vision is companies like Solyndra, of course. Inflate your tires, or better yet, buy an expensive hybrid, and stop complaining about high gas prices you stupid serfs!

The list of other failure is long: unemployment numbers that are staggering, ridiculous gas prices, inflation gone wild, recovery always being just around the corner for over three years now, and a slew of other depressingly bad things. Not to mention the criminal stuff the DOJ pulls regularly. Yeah, we got bin Laden, but that was the military, and while Obama whom deserved props for the decision, the fool decided to milk it for political purposes, and thus made it all a joke. Seriously, it has been solid campaign mode since 2007, very little of substance or value, unless that is, you are part of the circle that made itself stinking rich at the tax payers expense by fooling everyone into letting them blow close to a trillion dollars and call it a stimulus.

The fact is that the left simply has absolutely nothing to sell themselves on. Even their political attacks backfire. They tried to make headway with dog lovers by making Romney a monster, only they forgot Barak ate dog. They tried, real hard, to convince people republicans hate women, because they don’t want to give them “free contraceptives”, that’s in quotes because what it really means is contraceptives paid by other people, of all things, and that blew up in their faces when we found out how well Team Blue and Obama’s own WH treat women all the time. Zimmerman was made out as a racist honkey that killed the poor and innocent Trayvon, out for a night stroll, because he was black. Only when we got the facts Zimmerman was neither white, nor the story as black and white – pardon the pun – and indicative of racism, as the LSM tried to make it out to be. Those evil rich people Obama always talks about? They are his biggest donors. Buffet’s secretary, paid more taxes than him too! Only the left forgot to mention, conveniently, that she likely makes more money than most small business owners do, and that’s why she manages to pay more taxes than Warren.

So when you have nothing to sell you are reduced to demonizing your opponent. Hence the need for race-baiter training, at the tax payer’s expense no less, for Team Blue. But hey, the problem is with people like me. If you do not like collectivism and tyrannical government you are a racist!

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But it seems to me that if you’re going to claim we dodged a bullet with Sarah Palin, you’re going to have to admit we dodged a bazooka shell with John Edwards:

A delusional, two-timing Sen. John Edwards dreamed of a Supreme Court appointment, even as his political career crumbled under the weight of a seedy sex scandal, according to testimony today.

Leo Hindery — Edwards’ economic policy adviser in his failed 2008 White House bid — was one of the government’s final witnesses before prosecutors rested, capping a sensational 14-day narrative of sex, money and deception.

…

Edwards had been Sen. John Kerry’s running mate in 2004. If not the White House, Edwards’ ultimate goal was to someday reach America’s highest court, according to Hindery.

If I’m reading this right, he was hoping that throwing his support behind Obama would get him a SCOTUS seat. It’s unclear whether he conveyed this information to the Obama campaign.

I’m with Gene Healey on the Edwards trial itself. I do think it is prosecutorial overreach, trying to use campaign finance laws to punish sleazy behavior.

However, the trial sure is a lot of fun in an appalling car wreck way. The John Edwards who is emerging from this is a sleazy, boorish, delusional scumbag. Rachel Mellon donated $6 million to his campaign, including the $900,000 thrown at his pregnant mistress. Her only request was that he attend her daughter’s funeral. Edwards couldn’t make it. Must have been out humiliating his wife or something.

Say what you want about Mitt Romney, but if some 100-year-old lady gave him $6 million to be at a funeral, you can bet that Mitt would fucking be there.

This jackass came within 35 electoral votes and 3 million popular votes of being Vice President. Had he done so, he would have, at best, exploded the Kerry Administration in a scandal that would make the Monica Lewinsky business look like a picnic of puritans. At worst, he might have become President and done God knows what damage to the nation.

And it was obvious at the time. Edwards’ career as a litigator was based at least partially on bogus science claiming caesareans could prevent cerebral palsy — the impact of which is still visible in the high number of Caesareans performed in this country. He ran vacuous campaigns based almost entirely on his looks and class warfare. He was a first class hypocrite on issues of wealth and climate. In Bob Shrum’s book, he noted that Kerry knew Edwards was a sleaze and was appalled when Edwards told him a story he’d “told very few people” about how, after his son died, he climbed onto the slab and hugged his body — a story he’d previously told Kerry with the same “told very few people” caveat.

So where are the, “Whew, did we dodge a bullet!” stories that circulate every time Sarah Palin says something stupid? I don’t want Palin anywhere near public office. But if it ever came down to her and John Edwards … well, I’d probably move to Australia to be honest. But at least she’s no John Edwards.

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It does show a measure of political courage to say this. And it’s important to do so after yesterday’s shameful vote in North Carolina. However, that courage pales in comparison to the political courage of the handful of Republicans who have supported gay marriage. A Democrat who supports gay marriage faces few consequences. A Republican who does so faces primary challenges, accusations of RINOism, pillorying by NOM and other Religious right bastions and, sometimes, big losses in campaign support.

So good on Obama. But not, you know, that good on him.

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House Democrats said Tuesday they will offer an amendment to push to overturn stand-your-ground self-defense laws in states like Florida.

The amendment, which would withhold some grants from states that have such laws, will come as part of the House’s debate on the Commerce Department spending bill.

Well, apart from the Trayvon case having nothing to do with “Stand Your Ground”, apart from SYG being in no way a “shoot first” law, apart from the utter bogosity of the claim that self-defense killings have tripled in the last decade … apart from all that … this is the sort of federalist blackmail I despise. The Democrats point out that this has been done before. Indeed, it has — it’s how we got the nationwide 21-year drinking age. And thanks a lot for that piece of shit, fuckwads.

Glad to see the tradition of useless, stupid and doomed legislation is alive and well in the Democratic Party. It almost gives me a sense of comfort and stability in these troubled times.

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Bake sales, the calorie-laden standby cash-strapped classrooms, PTAs and booster clubs rely on, will be outlawed from public schools as of Aug. 1 as part of new no-nonsense nutrition standards, forcing fundraisers back to the blackboard to cook up alternative ways to raise money for kids.

At a minimum, the nosh clampdown targets so-called “competitive” foods — those sold or served during the school day in hallways, cafeterias, stores and vending machines outside the regular lunch program, including bake sales, holiday parties and treats dished out to reward academic achievement. But state officials are pushing schools to expand the ban 24/7 to include evening, weekend and community events such as banquets, door-to-door candy sales and football games.

Everyone but the bureaucrats and the schools pushed by those bureaucrats thinks the rule is dumb. Basically the schools are using a SCOTUS decision about allowing schools to regulate or punish behavior outside of school, some guy that held up a “Bongs for Jesus” sign was basically told in one of the most ridiculous rulings that his out of school activity impacted students, and hence the school could punish em, to justify this nonsense.

The angle nobody pushes is that schools are all under tremendous pressure from the MA politicians to change eating habits. And that drive is primarily because the MA politicians are first and foremost concerned with controlling healthcare costs. Obesity and medical complications caused by obesity, seems to be one of the primary drivers of medical costs these days.

Whether you believe obesity is a problem or not, the bigger issue this brings to the forefront is whether we have freedom to determine what we eat or not. The big government controlled healthcare types tell us constantly they wouldn’t do shit like this, but have no doubt they are behind this effort, be it directly or indirectly, to control what people eat, because they see that as a critical step towards controlling government run healthcare costs. Sooner than later, for our own good they will tell us too, of course, they will start controlling not just what we eat, but everything else we do. Of course big nanny state lovers will see very little wrong with that until they tell them they can’t do something they want to do, or have to do something they don’t, death panels come to mind, but by then it will already be too late.

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Investigators were studying an explosive device Tuesday that they say terrorists in Yemen crafted to slip past airport metal detectors and onto an airplane bound for the United States.

U.S. intelligence agents thwarted the plot two weeks ago after receiving a tip from Saudi Arabia, a source familiar with the operation said Tuesday. Authorities have said airline passengers were never in danger and that the would-be bomber no longer poses a threat.

Even so, the plot highlights the resolve of terrorists to attack the United States a year after the U.S. military killed Osama bin Laden in a stunning raid inside Pakistan.

The good news is that this wasn’t even close to happening. We’ve had them in our sites for a few weeks at least, based on a tip from someone in Saudi Arabia. The bad news is that this shows we still have an enemy out there and they are working hard on evading our security procedures.

This also confirms that Yemen is the main source of Al Quaeda, not Afghanistan. I mean, we knew that because of the drone strikes. But now we’re seeing it in even clearer focus.

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A bit more about that last point, since it’s relavent to the “spend yourself to prosperity” policies that Krugman and the Left are embracing for America and the Euro Zone. Inflating economies can give the illusion of prosperity. But it always end the same way — with a massive hangover. In the 1960′s and 70′s, the US deliberately inflated its currency because of a Keynsian piece of bullshit called the Phillips curve. It blew up in our face under Carter and we had to endure a brutal hangover once Volker got things under control. Argentina’s economy is already cracking: I noted earlier their nationalization of a Spanish oil company and their saber-rattling on what Obama calls “the Maldives”. These are not the actions of a country experiencing real economic growth.

Back to Krugman. This is not an isolated incident. He is frequently factually challenged. He asserts the Euro-zone is “slashing spending” when spending is flat (and rising outside the PIIGS). He claims Hoover slashed spending when Hoover increase spending 80% in response to the Depression and was denounced by FDR for being a socialist. As we saw in the debate with Ron Paul, he ignores the post-War prosperity that followed Truman’s massive spending cuts.

And he’s one of the most influential liberals in the country. It just goes to show that fact don’t matter when you’re telling people what they want to hear.

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There was a rare gem in this tragedy however:

Cheryl Bormann, a lawyer for Mr. bin Attash, was dressed in an abaya, a loosefitting garment worn by observant Muslim women, leaving only her face exposed, and suggested that women on the prosecution team follow her example. They should dress modestly “so that our clients are not forced to not look at the prosecution for fear of committing a sin under their faith,” Ms. Bormann said.

Oh, the irony! The prosecution shouldn’t just decline to follow this idiotic example, they should have as many women dressed as cheap hookers as possible at hand to insult these people. This stupid woman probably thinks these guys like her and they are playing her for all she is worth.

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Sunday’s election capped a stunning comeback for Hollande, whose career appeared to be all but over after he left the leadership of the Socialist Party in 2008.

It also marked the end of a year-long campaign for the veteran politician, who won his party’s internal primaries in October of last year, establishing himself from the start as a moderate left-winger with the best chances of appealing to centrists and beating Sarkozy.

In an often bitter presidential campaign, Hollande promised to hire more staff to boost France’s state education system and to reduce the retirement age from 62 to 60 for people who have completed a minimum 41 years of work.

He also pledged to raise taxes on the wealthy and balance the country’s budget by 2017.

And while both the far right and Sarkozy adopted an anti-immigration stance during the campaign, the Socialist candidate stood by a promise to give foreigners the right to vote in local elections.

Short explanation: fuck reality, give us more free shit. I guess as a true collectivist he doesn’t even feel obligated to pretend otherwise when he points out that the only way for him to address the massive unemployment in France is to create more government jobs. If you are one of these idiots that believe government is the center of the world expanding the already bloated bureaucracy makes sense, I guess. The people that voted for more pork they can not afford sure as hell seem to feel that work is for idiots. While some might find that minimum 41 years of work requirement clever considering France’s unemployment amongst those 26 and younger is close to 25%, the fact remains that the retirement age of 62 itself was already draining the system. Just like the left in the has been pushing to give the ability to vote to people they know depend on their handouts, making a special effort to target illegal immigrants, it looks like Hollande believes the key to perpetual power resides with letting these moochers vote.

The problem that the moochers face however is that the real world doesn’t tolerate stupid and plans to ignore reality have a cost. But don’t you worry: the collectivists know whom the enemy is!

A Robert A. Heinlein quote that’s, if you will pardon my French, apropos for the situation is:

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as “bad luck.”

Why bother? Gimme what I want and let the other people pay for it! That’s social justice in a nut shell. C’Est la vie.

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For obvious reasons, I see this is a critical election. State employee benefits are the bomb hovering over the fiscal futures of many states. And it matters who is making the decisions. Steven Malanga explains why:

Indiana’s debt for unfunded retiree health-care benefits, for example, amounts to just $81 per person. Neighboring Illinois’s accumulated obligations for the same benefit average $3,399 per person.

Illinois is an object lesson in why firms are starting to pay more attention to the long-term fiscal prospects of communities. Early last year, the state imposed $7 billion in new taxes on residents and business, pledging to use the money to eliminate its deficit and pay down a backlog of unpaid bills (to Medicaid providers, state vendors and delayed tax refunds to businesses). But more than a year later, the state is in worse fiscal shape, with its total deficit expected to increase to $5 billion from $4.6 billion, according to an estimate by the Civic Federation of Chicago.

The reason is because Illinois employees get extremely generous healthcare benefits and pensions, funded entirely by the state. Even Rahm Emmanuel is beginning to notice businesses fleeing for Indiana and Wisconsin. Illinois is the disaster Walker wanted to avoid.

But there is a political price to pay for that. Or … maybe not. The funny thing is that the Democrats aren’t running on the issue that sparked the recall.

Since last summer, unions have been throwing millions at defeating the man who reformed collective bargaining for government workers and required union members to pay 5.8% of their paychecks toward pensions and 12.6% of their health insurance premiums, modest contributions compared to the average in private business. As the May 8 Democratic recall primary nears to determine who will run against Mr. Walker on June 5, this should be their rhetorical moment ne plus ultra.

So, let’s see. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, the front-runner, has focused his campaigns on jobs, education, the environment and “making communities safer.” One of Mr. Barrett’s ads singles out “Walker’s War on Women,” with nary a mention of collective bargaining. Former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk is heavily supported by union groups, but even her issues list makes only passing reference to collective bargaining.

There’s a very good reason they aren’t running against Walker’s reforms: because they’re working. Wisconsin property taxes fell for the first time in two decades and their business environment is now ranked as top 20. The state has already saved a billion dollar, mostly by allowing governments to shop for health insurance rather than forcing them to buy it through the union. And, in fact, the changes saved union jobs, allowing costs to be cut without firing teachers. Thousands of union employees still have their jobs today — albeit with lesser benefits — thanks to Walker and the Republicans.

The Democratic refusal to run on this issue is an acknowledgement that Walker was right.

The unions can see how dangerous this is. The only way we are supposed to deal with these problems is by raising taxes. If Walker is re-elected, it will not only vindicate his reforms but show that politicians can take on the unions and still win re-election. And so they are pulling out the stops.

(Of course, this stop out-pulling is coming without the media terror that would ensue if this were a Right Wing recall. If Sarah Palin talked about “taking out” a governor, she’d be forced to apologize, unlike Richard Trumka. If outside money were pouring in, we’d hear about Koch Brothers and Citizens United. And I’m sure the unions will try to re-ignite the protests — only without the hand-wringing that accompanies Tea Party rallies. The fight in this election is on many fronts, the media being one.)

Keep an eye on this election. And if you live in Wisconsin or know those who do, encourage them to vote like hell. This may end up being more important than the November election.

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History is replete with Peoples’ movements that, claiming weight of numbers and well-meaning intentions for others, have changed the course of society–but not necessarily for the better. In other words, pathologically altruistic movements.

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The Occupy movement seeks to make things fair for everyone, not by allowing people to flourish with their natural talents, but rather by focusing on and tearing down anyone who has more—more talent, more industriousness, more intelligence and, often as a consequence of these natural qualities, more possessions.

As the author points out, the OWS movement shares the same genus with the French and the Communist Revolutions, both of which where tyrannical and bloody endeavors, the communists one killing some 100 million of their own people, and focuses not on actually any kind of real justice, but on tearing down anyone that has more than they do. That’s because “popular movements” like OWS and like the democrat’s class warfare bread & butter tactic, are predicated on the basest and vilest of emotions – jealousy and envy – despite the argument that what they really want is justice.

How does that old saying go again? With friends like these, who needs enemies? Envy and jealousy, even when hidden behind a mantle of seeking justice, means blood. It’s not a coincidence that we find OWSers resorting to violence and the movement excusing it. Their goal isn’t justice: its to tear down & punish those they are envious of, and they do a great job by blaming those everyone has an innate dislike of already, like bankers. Of course, the marxist politicians get a pass, because the OWS movement is controlled and run for the benefit of marxist playing at being otherwise. But hey, the reason that why the democrats empathize and support the OWS movement and despise the Tea Partiers is because want to be left alone to seek their own prosperity makes you the unjust and bad guys. After all, where is the erm, “justice!” (TM) in wanting to be left alone?

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(Reuters) – The U.S. Congress should pass a law to give investigators freer access to certain cellphone records, an Obama administration official said on Thursday, in remarks that raised concern among advocates of civil liberties and privacy.

Jason Weinstein, a deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s criminal division, argued that requirements for warrants at early stages of investigations would “cripple” prosecutors and law enforcement.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this year that a warrant was needed to put a GPS satellite tracking device on a suspect’s vehicle, prompting questions about other instances where probable-cause warrants should be needed to obtain information in the rapidly changing world of mobile devices.

Besides, it is not like these assholes that want to avoid warrants, after spending about 8 years accusing the last administration of wanting to do that on the flimsiest of contrived conspiratorial bullshit, because they firmly believed that former administration wanted to violate people’s basic rights, would ever abuse any power it got itself, right? We have nothing crazy like that ever going down. Using the IRS to investigate Tea Party opponents? NEVAH! It’s not like this administration seems to believe or imply that these Tea Partiers are terrorists or something. Biden certainly doesn’t speak for them. And it’s not as if this administration has an enemies list or would resort to using the power of big government to target those supporting their opposition.

Note that not a single of the links I used to illustrate how corrupt and vile Team Obama is, ready to abuse their power and office at the drop of a hat for political and power gain, comes from the LSM. That’s not a coincidence. The LSM has mostly ignored, or actually when forced to report on them, defended these practices. Can you imagine them doing the same if the guy being discussed was GWB? Me neither. But hey, Bush was the guy that wanted to steal our freedoms because he, like this new asshole Romney trying to steal the emperor’s crown, do not want to give people free shit paid by other people.

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You can not parody these idiots and their stupidity. They do it all on their own. America, the land of the free and brave government cheese for women, because the bitches are just too stupid and weak to do anything on their own. If I was a women I wouldn’t just be insulted, I would be f-ing furious at this condescending nonsense, intended to intimidate me into voting for these crooks. That there are so many women living lives like this Julia should shame us as a nation- not lead us to believe Obama and the people that share his vision of what this country needs more of, are good people and mean well. I thought we ended slavery a long time ago, and here are the democrats right back at it and creating a whole new class of dependent serfs. But hey, conservatives that want people to be responsible for their choices and actions and to be left alone to succeed are the bad guys.

UPDATE: Forget Julia: check out Bryan!

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At issue is that Warren is reputed to be, depending on how you break it down, 1/32 American Indian. Keep in mind that while some point out that this claim is based on a number that assumes that the ancestor she claims this minority status from had to be 100% Native, or the possibility that the Native-American was a second wife, a practice that was common back then, this is still not the focus discussion, even when this is exactly what the left hopes to make it. That argument they can win or use to distract from the bigger issue.

But Warren being Native-American or Native-American enough, is not what is at issue here: what is, is the thing that paints the whole Affirmative Action movement in a dark light, and that is the fact that Warren identified herself as Native-American while that served her career advancement purpose, but quickly dropped that once she got the Harvard hire. The story has morphed from the ludicrous “it was done by others, and not me” line off defense her campaign first tried to hide behind, to the even more insane and disgusting “I used it to make friends” meme, with the usual suspects in the LSM and academia working double time to make the absolutely unbelievable and stupid case that universities, the most diversity driven cesspools of affirmative action, in this classic affirmative action case did none of that, and that she was hired because she was just that awesome. That claim by Harvard and the many others is easily debunked by just looking at the facts.

What we have here is a case of a true believer, a collectivist twit of the highest order, gaming the affirmative action system, and who cares if she was doing it within the boundaries of what was allowed or not, and then pretending that the system isn’t a huge scam. That’s the big story. Warren got tenure at Harvard because she was a double whammy for their affirmative action compliance program, a woman and a Native-American collectivist to boot, and there is no argument the left can make to deny that. Then, when she had arrived, she conveniently dropped her Native-American bonafides because she didn’t need them out there anymore. After all, someone could then use those to point out she was an affirmative action hire. Of course, the admission that the system is rigged and totally abused isn’t something the left wants highlighted. I expect that amongst the intelligentsia in leftist politics and the LSM some will keep pretending, to the bitter end, that the mean right is just picking on this innocent woman – War on women! – while others, once the heat gets too close for comfort and endangers the whole AA scam by making people question how often this practice happens, will throw her under the bus, pretending to be offended that she gamed the system, as if the system isn’t constantly gamed and totally arbitrary, anyway.

We shouldn’t let the left’s credentialed elite get away with this and hammer home how stupid and worthless the whole AA scheme really is. Even in blue MA, I think, the revelation that the elite are abusing the system that’s supposed to provide social justice, thus providing nothing of the sort, will have consequences. If it causes this pseudo-marxist’s campaign to implode that’s good, but if it finally provides enough people with the knowledge of how insanely stupid and illogic the vile AA scheme is, and then undermines it’s credibility and helps us do away with the whole leftist scheme, it is even better. I wonder how many better qualified people, some even other Native-Americans got shafted because of Warren. No wonder Native-Americans are pissed at her while the LSM and the left, if you will pardon the expression, are circling the wagons.

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