Politics and other nightmares

It's not just wacky, Tea Party conservatives who think Common Core might not be the magic solution for the education system:

President Obama tells "immigration activists" (i.e. those who want to erase our borders) that "no force on earth can stop us," then says, as a preface to a bunch of "this country is its people" gobbledygook,

 People who love this country can change it. America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington.

If this isn't the perfect metaphor for what the federal government has become, I don't know what is:

A world gone mad:

A transgender teenager, who was born male but identifies as a female, can continue to use a women’s restroom and locker room at a Jefferson County Public School.

Most of the criticisms I hear about President Obama's foreign policy generally fall either into the "he is disengaged" category or represent some version of  "he wants to be friends with the world instead of accepting the U.S. superpwer status as a good thing." Those are pretty general, tough. It's possible to think a little more specifically.

Hmmm:

No, jerkwad, they join to protect the interests of this country and serve unworthy idiots like you:

ESPN’s Colin Cowherd went off on a rant today about Americans who do and do not, in his view, deserve his “sympathies.”

Matt Yglesias of the increasingly silly Vox "explanatory journalism" site, has "7 reasons Mike Pence will be the GOP nominee in 2016." Of course, being a good liberal disguised as an objective observer, he isn't really too thrilled about the prospect. In fact, the whole article seems like nothing more than an excuse to be snottily dismissive of conservative ideas.

Oh, gag me. President Obama says "we know what to do" to increase incomes of working-class Americans:

Is the culture war really over?