If Texas gets to leave, then Utah, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and Idaho should be allowed to accompany ya'll.  Obama got 25%, 28%, 33%, and 33% respectively.  I think we've proven our conservative bona fides.  

They can make 46 stars look good, and our five would look good in a circular pattern (maybe we could join Israel and go with a six-pointed star). With Israel, the population of our new country would be about 42-43 million.  I think we'd be able to punch well above our weight.

If it were my restaurant, it would be fresh:  because I have the greatest incentive to (1) get customers to come back and (2) to not make them sick.  This is not a problem that requires EU regulations to solve.

I also trust that cooks in good restaurants won't spit in the soup.  That too is a "problem" that doesn't require government intervention.

Remember John Dean's comment to Nixon?:  "a cancer is growing on the presidency." (I paraphrase).

Watergate was a true scandal and the cover-up demonstrated the existence of a cancer.  

I think the cancer on the Obama presidency is just as profound for the reasons KC has articulated.  Obama likely didn't order any of this, but he allowed a cancerous environment to grow in his administration.

I hope the Republicans don't move on impeachment unless the evidence is overwhelming.  That lacking, they shouldn't do it because it will give Obama the power to condemn those insane Republicans, thus making the Republican overreach the issue instead of the administration's sins.

If the result of all this is (1) neutering the Obama administration's ability to get bad legislation through Congress and (2) destroying a Clinton run in 2016, you can color me ecstatic.

You've not heard to the thousands and thousands of olive oil poisonings all over Europe?  Public health crisis.  People are hurting--government must move.

Judith's story could just as easily run in the Onion, and everyone would have laughed at the irony of making fun of silly and useless regulation and bureaucracy.

My great-uncle taught history in my little rural high school (he was on the cusp of retirement) .  At this point, I don't actually remember what was taught (I think we mostly shot the bull a lot), but I do know that no history was taught.

In his case, there was nothing ideological about it.  He was just plain lazy and did not want to bother with teaching or grading exams.  He wanted a smooth glide path to actual retirement.  If there was ever a case for testing to assure some teaching is taking place, he is the poster teacher.

But at least he subscribed to the "first do no harm" rule.  He didn't cause me to hate history.

A worthy recipient.

Melanie Phillips:

“Progressive opinion interpreted the concept of liberty at the heart of liberalism to mean license—thus destroying the moral rules that make freedom a virtue within constraints that prevent harm to others.  Onto license it then spliced the doctrine of equality.  The result was a toxic combination of egalitarianism and permissiveness:  a marriage between the old left and the new nihilism.” (The World Turned Upside Down)

I agree.  It's a beautiful piece of music.  You know it's overexposed when genius becomes trite.l

A+ post.

The cancellation of Miami Vice may have given a break to our overworked ears, but think of the other tragedy:  my entire wardrobe of pastel muscle shirts  and white pants immediately became obsolete.

This is a fact that the leftist mind seems unable to grasp.  Those government jobs they have are funded by taxes paid by businesses like yours that struggled and made it, or the little lefties are now working for you, resenting your success, but don't ask them to stay five minutes longer.

Here's a relatively modern invention that has had a profound positive effect on mankind: eyeglasses.  At about age 15, I had to get glasses for nearsightedness.  I'm now of a certain age and have bifocals.

Were it not for these inventions, I would have viewed life for over forty years as though I were in fog.  They seem so simple, but they've dramatically improved people's lives.

Ditto to both.  My parents always called it Decoration Day.  We still visit four different cemeteries.

I own a Kindle and use it, but--if we're talking about a book that's more than just mind candy--I like real books.  Kindles are good when you travel (so you don't have to take your whole library).

Real courage takes place all the time in houses on your street. We don't know about it because courageous people don't complain.

I've said this many times on Ricochet, but my Dad spent 64 years with a shattered arm caused by German shrapnel.  Not once did he ever complain. When I hear myself whining about something, my Dad's image often crosses my mind, and I usually stop, feeling a bit of shame.

Mrs. Tabula is a Mary Ann kind of person:  loves kids and grandkids; she's pretty, but unpretentious; she's the adult in the room; and, best of all, she puts up with me.

They're very, very good.  Second the motion.