JOHN BOEHNER: There will be no earmarks.



I hope he stands firm; he's going to face significant pressure, even within his own party.

SURPRISE! The Koch brothers bought the Supreme Court. At worst, they outbid the Democrats.

DOT INSPECTOR GENERAL finds FAA won’t meet its own deadline for integrating UAVs into U.S. airspace.

HERE WE GO AGAIN: Obama decides to 'act on my own' on immigration.

[T]he president said he's directed a team to "identify additional actions my administration can take on our own within my existing legal authorities to do what Congress refuses to do and fix as much of our immigration system as we can."

He's reacting, not acting ... if he were acting (as opposed to 'reacting') he would have already instructed his team to come up with executive actions and would be announcing those actions. This is just another case of red-line drawing in the sand.

AT RISK: your tax dollars: Government watchdog finds millions of ObamaCare policies in jeopardy.

What the hell, it's just other peoples' money, right? Never mind that $17 trillion in debt behind the curtain....

POLITICS PAYS, and crony capitalism pays even better.

Instapundit adds "[I]n the short-run, the opportunities for graft are amazing."

And since it's other people's money we're stealing, it's not criminal....

BLOOMBERG VIEW: Libertarians Are the New Communists. If there is anything anywhere in this post that is even remotely coherent, I missed it.

[Added} PowerLine takes them down. Hard.

THE SUPREME COURT agrees with Mitt Romney: "Corporations are people."

JUST A COINCIDENCE:

From my email.

BUT, WAIT: The science is settled. President Obama said so.

The Bible Obama said it, I believe it, and that's all there is to it....

WHERE HAVE ALL THE JOBS GONE? "Shockingly, when you jack up taxes and flood the economy with new regulations, employment and growth suffer. Bad luck, I guess." Many years ago, Robert A. Heinlein offered this reminder:

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.”

In a mature society, “civil servant” is semantically equal to “civil master.”

Heinlein understood reality; Liberals don't.

[Added] A number of commenters at Instapundit also pointed out the Heinlein reminder.

MICHAEL BARONE: "How did this democratic nation come to be saddled with ... 'a government run by clerks and jerks'?"