Maggie's Farm

Robin Hanson: Words Show Lies

Deneen: Social Justice, Rightly Understood

Excitement accompanies news Thaddeus McCotter will run for president

McCotter's White House bid launching at Michigan festival

Maggie's Farm likes McCotter's personality

Anchoress: When True Evil Rises Before Us

Teachers' pensions in Illinois.

Good grief.

Kling: The New Commanding Heights (my bolds):

We are accustomed to thinking that our country is in the midst of a long transition from an industrial economy to a "service" economy, and these figures would seem to confirm that perception. But the service economy is not what we often think it is. The images that most readily come to mind when we think of these sectors might involve retail sales, information-technology consulting, and financial services. But Spence and Hlatshwayo's work shows that, within the non-tradable sector, health care was easily the growth leader — increasing from 10 million to 16.3 million jobs, and accounting for almost 25% of total job growth in the past two decades. Government was second, growing from 18.4 million to 22.5 million jobs, and accounting for about 15% of total job growth. Of this expansion in government employment, nearly 70% was attributable to jobs in education. Today, the drivers of the American labor market are therefore clearly health, education, and government work; these sectors form the backbone of our post-industrial economy.

Obama Admin Lists Israel as a Terror Sponsor

Rubio: “America does not have a tradition of class warfare”

Shameless… In Weekly Address Obama Says “Government Has to Start Living Within Its Means”

Human Events: Top 10 Obama Attacks on Capitalism

Fox News: Best places to be an illegal alien

Via AVI, who gives how much to political causes?

Am Thinker: In Government, First, Do No Harm!

VDH's The Philosophies of Illegal Immigration:

...illegal immigration has transmogrified into one of the most illiberal, reactionary phenomena on the current American scene, an ossified concept of racial solidarity and tribalism that attempts to privilege one group, solely on the basis of race or ethnic fides, in its exemption from federal law, and in a manner that would never be extended to other immigrant lobbies, with less numbers, influence, and potential electoral power. We have come full circle back to the 1920s when immigration was likewise largely seen through racial lenses — when one’s race determined how one navigated immigration law.

Should there now be 6 million Korean nationals — and more on their way — inside California without legality, would the proverbial Hispanic community in large part be calling for stricter border enforcement? Would it be amnesty or deportation? English-only or Korean-language interpreters?

'The first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created people in the history of the world.':

Adams thought the day of independence should be commemorated by “Acts of Devotion to God Almighty,” and further “solemnized” (as he confided in a letter to his wife, Abigail) “with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one end of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.”

Mickey Mouse runs afoul of the Islamists in Egypt

Chavez health scare leaves dependent Cuba on edge

Is Obama taking a Reagan approach to the budget?

Am Thinker: The New York Times' agenda is showing

Is reverse racism Constitutional?

Top pic from Driscoll's Quote of the Day

Delicious Deviled Egg pic from neoneo's The Atkins diet and me

Toon below from Theo: