Liberals seem depressed by the studies showing that conservatives have the edge when it comes to being happy:
An explanation for the happiness gap more congenial to liberals is that conservatives are simply inattentive to the misery of others. If they recognized the injustice in the world, they wouldn’t be so cheerful.
When a buffoon like Thomas Friedman prattles on with China envy, it's up-to-a-point amusing. When when it comes from a Cabinet secretary, it's just a little bit scary:
The essence of chutzpah
Senior Obama strategist David Axelrod stood by his comments likening Mitt Romney to Richard Nixon, charging on Friday that the former Massachusetts governor was “trying to turn the clock back 50 years on transparency and disclosure” and that the media should call him out for it.
Rich Lowry says we should just get over our silly panic about drones spying on us all the time:
With the Supreme Court giving President Obama’s new health care law a green light, federal and state officials are turning to implementation of the law — a lengthy and massive undertaking still in its early stages, but already costing money and expanding the government.
Alanis Morissette, please pay attention:
When Long Beach, Indiana, native John G. Roberts was up for confirmation to become U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, he did not get the vote of then U.S. Sen. Barack Obama.
A July the Fourth appreciation of the genius ofthe Declaration of Independence:
Oh, come on, Rand. Don't you know what an utter waste of time this would be for the members of our rushed and overburdened ruling class?
After blasting the Senate last week for passing a 600-page bill no one had time to read, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) introduced legislation that would force the Senate to give its members one day to read bills for every 20 pages they contain.
I'll let anyone else who cares to comment on the gender-identity basis of this story, but I couldn't help noting this observation by Argentine President Christina Fernandez:
Argentina is showing the world that equality is just as important as liberty, she said.
