Dan Calabrese

Crestfallen New York Times blubbers: Rising CEO pay is ‘unstoppable’

They're fit to be tied at the New York Times, where they've discovered to their horror that successful CEOs are still quite handsomely compensated. The whole thing is just so upsetting:

A (very) tiny step toward a new tax code

I don't imagine anyone really believes the likes of Orrin Hatch and Max Baucus will give us the type of new tax code the country needs, despite what they say they're going to do. The Wall Street Journal:

Washington Post: All ObamaCare’s problems are the fault of those rascally Republicans

The story is ostensibly about the refusal of the National Football League to carry ObamaCare's water by treating it like it's the United Way, but you'd never know it as you read through the piece and discover that nothing matters more than the political motivations of mean and nasty Republicans who just refuse to help out in herding Americans into the ObamaCare pen.

Feds: Oh, hey, 1Q GDP was way worse than we first told you

Remember when the government told us that first quarter GDP growth was 2.4 percent, which is pretty weak but at least it's something? About that . . .

Obama to jobless Americans: Pound sand, suckers, I’ve got a planet to save

Just in case you're one of the 12 million Americans still struggling to find a job in the New Normal, Barack Obama has a message that will clarify the situation:

Chaos, histrionics defeat Texas abortion bill

The story should have been the substance of the bill, which would have required every abortion clinic in Texas to upgrade to an ambulatory care center - the practical result of which would have been to shut down every single one of them.

Supremes to Congress: Update the Voting Rights Act

To go by some of the headlines today, you'd think the Supreme Court had thrown out the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. They didn't. What they did do, however, is significant and needs to be understood in its larger context.

ObamaCare logic: What’s the big deal if we don’t let doctors make so much money?

In fairness to National Journal writer Margot Sanger-Katz, she is not completely in the tank for ObamaCare. She has been honest in writing about what a bureaucratic nightmare its implementation is going to be, and somewhat honest about Kathleen Sebelius's ridiculous hunt for implementation cash. But Sanger-Katz has trouble grasping the basic problems with the theories behind the law, which is why she doesn't see the problem with what it's about to do to the income of physicians.

Global warming fraud: Obama expected to end traditional coal-fired power

It can't be said often enough. There has been no global warming for the past 15 years, and now even the New York Times can no longer pretend otherwise. But just because "climate scientists" swung and missed on that hanging curveball doesn't mean Barack Obama is about to be deterred. He's got a socialist agenda, and global warming is the excuse for why it must be implemented urgently right now, Congress and the truth be damned.

Obama in Berlin: Self-indulgent mush masquerades as leadership

The Obama presidency has always depended heavily on one bedrock notion - that Barack Obama's oratory brilliance is so exceptional that he can essentially govern the people just by giving great speeches. It seems his answer to every significant issue is a "major speech," promoted with much fanfare and usually covered with fawning admiration by the adoring media.

AFL-CIO gets $1 million to build ObamaCare ‘awareness’ in California

To be honest, this is just a drop in the bucket. The California ObamaCare exchange gets a whopping $90 million just for administrative costs - executive salaries, things of that nature. And $37 million is going to 48 different groups for the purpose of "building awareness."

Beltway insider heartbroken over news Americans don’t trust anyone in Washington

Because, of course, nothing is more important than what's good for politics. Isn't the fact that these people think that way sort of the root of the problem?

Obama tells Germans: I’ll use executive orders to tackle global warming

I wonder if the Germans gave any thought as they were listening to this to what can happen when an elected executive consolidates too much power for himself under the guise of some sort of emergency or crucial imperative. Obama's friends at the AP, when they're not mad at him for snooping on their phone calls, report:

Reuters spins abortion ban story to be about everything but abortion

If you're looking for the part of the story where they describe a baby being sucked out of a woman's womb after having its skull crushed, quit wasting your time. If you're looking for an interview with a doctor who explains exactly how the baby is killed and disposed of, you can stop now.

The Founders didn’t quite anticipate the imperial bureaucracy

First of all, I wish someone could explain to me how Beltway conventional wisdom declares a shallow hack like Ezra Klein "bright," but doesn't recognize the real brainpower in Jay Cost. If you read the Weekly Standard at all, you know Cost for being thorough, analytical and always honest in his assessments. And as we see here, he does his homework and knows his history. Cost has done a really excellent piece that spells out one of the biggest problems facing the citizens of this nation - the fact that a gigantic bureaucracy the Founders could never have anticipated, and really designed no mechanism for reining in, has become such a power unto itself.

They needed a study? Apparently media quite pro-gay marriage

Some things are patently obvious to those of us with eyes to see and ears to hear, but for those of you who insist on imperical data, here you go, excuses included:

Discussion: What is the right balance between privacy and security?

This seems like a good discussion for a Friday, and I'd like to ask everyone to weigh in here on CainTV instead of on Facebook (soon all comments will appear in both places, but we're not quite there yet).

Illegal aliens invade Rep. Steve King’s office

They were wearing caps and gowns and carrying signs saying "future teacher," "future lawyer" and so forth, which I guess is supposed to mean it shouldn't matter that they entered the country illegally. Yahoo reports:

Gore was elected president, Biden says; No he wasn’t, says . . . the New York Times?

We all know Joe Biden will say pretty much anything, and smart people know enough not to take his advice on everything from the use of firearms to whether you should stand up (especially if you're in a wheelchair). So it's not that big a surprise that he would peddle total fiction about something like the 2000 presidential election. But he is the vice president of the United States, and this is an important topic, so this is worth taking him to task on.

Lefty journalist Greenwald: Just wait, we’re going to break more surveillance scandals

Left-wing journalist Glenn Greenwald appears to be feeling his oats these days, and I guess you can't really blame him. He's been denouncing pretty much every surveillance aspect of the War on Terror since the early Bush days, and you have to give him credit for not letting up - unlike most of his left-wing fellow travelers - after Obama took office. Greenwald is the one breaking a lot of the news we're reading today about just how extensively the government mines data, and whether your personally agree with his take on the issue or not, you can kind of understand the fist-pump impulse from a guy who's been pushing a point for a decade and is finally getting his day in the sun.