Politics and other nightmares

Saaay, are they trying to sneak this one by us?

The Obama White House, everyone: Attacking the symptoms instead of the underlying disease, one ultra-lame rehashed progressive ploy at a time.

Yeah, well, how about first you put down your copy of "Das Kapital"?

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air headlines this post "Are the parties over?" but he realizes what occurred to me to, that this is worse for Republicans than it is for Democrats:

Ah, journalistic geniuses at work:

Time magazine, 1974: "Clobal Cooling" Causes "Circumpolar Vortex."

Time magazine, 2014: "Global Warming" Causes "Polar Vortex."

When politics and science mix to form a new religion, the press is there to preach the gospel and curse the heretics.

The New York Times is dismayed -- downtirght shocked, I tell you! -- that a gun magazine would be so absolutist about gun rights and so uniformly hostile to gun control. Then it trots out the familiar leftist argument that "all constitutional rights are regulated," managing to count a lot of trees while missing the forest. James Taranto reacts:

Sad but true, I think:

Say goodbye to the regular light bulb this New Year.

For more than a century, the traditional incandescent bulb was the symbol of American innovation. Starting Jan. 1, the famous bulb is illegal to manufacture in the U.S., and it has become a fitting symbol for the collusion of big business and big government.

Michael Barone on why we ought to keep an eye on China:

Probably shouldn't read too much into this, but it is interesting: When President Obama settles in for a little TV watching, he prefers "anything edgy, with hints of reality":

By his own accounts, Mr. Obama is drawn in his spare time to shows like HBO’s “Game of Thrones” and “Boardwalk Empire,” the kind of heavy, darkly rendered television that echoes the sadness and strife that make up so much of his workday.

This seems a little harsh: