Maggie's Farm

Church Ordered to Stop Giving Away Free Water

LBJ and Vietnam: The Day It Became the Longest War

Spain is the new Greece:

The most obviously predictable fiscal train-wreck in the world continues on, seemingly unabated by trillions of dollars of Keynesian-inspired “stimulus” spending whose proponents insist is the only way out of the current crisis, even as they insist that austerity programs are anathema to recovery. They are half-right, yet it is precisely that half-rightness that reveals the insidious nature of socialism: it is the expansion of the state, and the overwhelming number of people thoroughly accustomed to the dependency mindset, that has destroyed the kind of entrepreneurial spirit among those who desperately need private enterprise growth to rescue them. This spiritual debasement, courtesy of state-sponsored self-entitlement, is the dark underbelly of an ideology that can only survive until it runs out of other people’s money to spend. How do those “other people” acquire that money?

The comments here are quite amusing, in a typically crude Wall St. trader sort of way

Infinite Affirmative Action? In Eric Holder’s world, the need for racial preferences will never end.

Obama’s Energy Plan: Costs Rise, Jobs Decline

Obama Seeks Disability Quotas

Romney's Best Defense: The Truth About Romneycare

ObamaCare – why you should care and work for its repeal

Reagan Was A Sure Loser Too - Conventional wisdom about Republican presidential prospects sounds mighty familiar.

Krauthammer: Romney’s luck

Ted Turner saves the planet

Electric cars and liberals’ refusal to accept science

I'll never forget the greenie who informed me, after I claimed that electric cars basically run on coal, that the electricity "comes from the wall."

Coyote:

Apparently electric vehicle maker — and recipient of lots of your and my money — Fisker Automotive is struggling. Who would have thought that a company that could not fully fund itself privately and had to rely on political connections to use the coercive power of government to take money from taxpayers might be a bad investment?

For 99 percent of Americans, the Obama recovery has been no recovery at all

Al Qaeda in Iraq mounts comeback - Claims a string of fatal bombings

Few military options for U.S. in Syria, general says

Should Defense begin cutting from the top?

CBO: How Much Does the Federal Government Support the Development and Production of Fuels and Energy Technologies?

Vietnam: Systematic Crackdown on Human Rights - No Country for Rights Defenders and Activists

Democrats In California Declare War On Farmers

Harvard Law Students have started a shooting club.

Meanwhile, at Georgetown Law... "do the math and find that this means Fluke and her fellow law students have sex two or three times daily"

Ah, youth

"Over at The New Republic, Timothy Noah explains why it's like totally different when Bill Maher calls Sarah Palin "a twat" and "a cunt," or when Keith Olbermann calls Michelle Malkin a "mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it."