Republicans can’t extend unemployment because it costs $33 billion.

But happily approve $33 billion in addition war spending without such concerns.

To quote:

Republicans in Congress still were strongly behind the boost in war spending [emphasis added], but there was unusually strong opposition from members of Obama’s own Democratic Party. All but 12 of the “no” votes in [...]

Michelle Obama wants you to sign Barack’s birthday card:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/barackbirthday

to “let him know you’re ready to take on the year ahead alongside him”.

Honestly I would be happy to “take on the year ahead alongside him” if he lived up to his campaign promises. Thus I put a little something “extra” in the card:

Happy Birthday [...]

But only as far:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/39851.html

Yet another piece of evidence to explain why the Village (aka D.C.) doesn’t get what the rest of the country gets.

More and more on the left and the right (but particularly the later, specifically Libertarians) one hears the idea that the economic end is nigh – soon it’ll be time to break out the guns, ammo, and survival skills. It has gone from mildly paranoid to explicitly wishful.

Here’s my responses for this wistful desire:

Yes, the [...]

The SCOTUS has upheld a law that limits aid, even non-violent to “terrorist” organisations. It was challenged on “free speech” grounds in that it limits donations to political organizations (they may be “terrorist”, but they are by definition also political). Thus like the recent Citizens United case, it hinges on the equation of “money = [...]

Here’s a typical blog comment on the subject of guns:

“The constitution can’t be much clearer – you have a right to bear arms”

Honestly I don’t argue that position – our forefathers were concerned about the fact that the British were confiscating their arms and they wanted to encode the right to overthrow a corrupt government.

However [...]