YOUR TAX DOLLARS: Destination Unknown. Why am I not surprised?

NO. HE'S WITH VOX.COM: Does Matt Yglesias ever tire of being embarrassingly wrong about everything?

Liberalism is the state of feeling, not thinking.

POWERLINE: Ammo Grrrll has thoughts on dieting.

WASHINGTON DC COUNCIL mulling a 'virtue tax' on gyms and yoga studios.

Absolutely; let's discourage healthy lifestyles by taxing them just like we do booze, cigarettes, and sugary foods....

PUNCHING BACK TWICE AS HARD: (White) Male Privilege, June 6, 1944.

My post on the subject is here.

NO SHIT, SHERLOCK: [Credentialed] scientists say IPCC puts politics before science.

EAT YOUR HEART OUT, HARRY REID: First Nation official Lauds Koch engagement with Canadian tribe.

How dare those evil Koch brothers engage our voters! (It's Canada, Harry. They're not your voters. - Ed.)

OBAMA WILL WAIT until after the mid-term election to impose his vision of how we should live in little boxes made of ticky-tacky, only piled high in inner cities.

WHO REGULATES OBAMACARE? Why, the IRS, of course.

This is interesting. The Obama administration wants single-payer (i.e., government run) healthcare but knows it can't afford it, so for all practical purposes it's having the IRS rewrite the rules to prevent employers from sending their employees to the subsidized federal exchanges.

MICHELLE MALKIN provides a history refresher about Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. I remember seeing the Rose Garden ceremony and thinking "something's really wrong here" immediately upon hearing his father speak...

Subsequent events have clearly shown that I wasn't nearly cynical enough. Bergdahl is merely a coward and deserter; Obama has clearly shown himself to be a thug and a liar who will do anything -- anything, including releasing terrorists, to distract, dissuade, deter, and maintain his political office.

UPDATE: On Fox News' Justice tonight, Judge Jeanine Pirro called for Obama to be impeached. I believe that after the 2014 mid-terms, impeachment is a real possibility.

THANK AN ENVIRONMENTALIST: Scooters are more toxic than trucks.

RAMESH PONNURU: The World According to Obama: Since I know I'm right, just shut up and do as you're told.

JIM CROW IS ALIVE AND WELL, and living in paradise. Racism is okay, as long as it disenfranchises only whites....

POLITICO: The Veterans' Administration is a socialist paradise.

A SIGN THAT THE ECONOMY MAY BE BEGINNING TO IMPROVE? Cities slowing; suburbs growing.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES, arms for hostages edition. This week I couldn't pick just one favorite, so here are two:

Go, and see the rest.

WHAT THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA has missed about the Tea Party movement. I think this is correct; the major impact of the Tea Party has not been the candidates it has fielded (although I believe it should continue to field them), it has been to drive the establishment Republicans back to foundational principles.

WHY 'COMMON CORE' IS DOOMED: 'social justice is not a core value.

UPDATE: I told you so.

I CHECKED MY PRIVILEGE, and it’s doing just fine thank-you-very-much. Now get your sorry ass to work and earn some 'privilege' for yourself.

Equally offensive, to me at least, is the "now it's time to give back" trope. based at least in part on Obama's "at some point you've earned enough" bull... nonsense. I'm the earner; I'm the one who gets to decide how much is enough, and whether or not to part with some of my earnings.

I do find it at least somewhat amusing that those who believe that "at some point I've earned enough" are several rungs above me on the ladder of success and busily lopping off the steps beneath them while those who want me to 'give back' are at the bottom of the ladder not willing to take the first step up.

Here's the article in the Princeton Tory that started this discussion. And here's more from a liberal who shows at least a glimmer of realism in her writing.

YES, Let's have a conversation about racism.

Be sure to read the update to see how the conversation ended.