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[W]e find that the Captain’s plan is to send the black man into a redneck bar to pretend to be a black man working for the IRS and to get everyone all mad… because… well, you know that every white person is a racist that hates black civil servants, right?

Marvel may deny that the protesters represented in this new issue are "tea party" protests. Decide for yourself:

h/t Tabitha Hale

Ultimately, the only source for this money will be more tax burdens imposed on those who work in the private sector. Government jobs never pay for themselves, since it’s not government’s purpose to make a profit or to break even, so taxes from the shrinking private economy must support the swelling public economy.

Since the beginning of the recession in 2008, the federal work force has already expanded by nearly 10 percent, while private sector jobs went down by more than 6 percent. In other words, fewer people are employed privately, but are forced to pay for more and more people who are employed publicly.

This means more government expenses but less potential revenue, and less productive private sector activity—a surefire formula for national bankruptcy.

At a time of declared war, the ACLU has filed a case seeking to reveal in public the details of the use of un-manned drones that seek and kill US enemies in several nations. This is one of the most effective tactics the US has. And the ACLU wants a court to reveal it, and then kill it. Somewhere on the Other Side, King George III is saying, "If I only knew about that attack across the Delaware in 1776, I would have crushed those upstarts."

Some of the facts for this article, but none of the legal conclusions, come from a transcript posted on line of a TV news program featuring editors from the Wall Street Journal. As the third item, Paul Gigot mentioned that the ACLU has filed a Freedom of Information (FOIA) case concerning the use of attack drones in the war on terrorism.

In the more than three years that this writer has been writing and filing these ACLU Outrages, this is the most absurd of the lot.

The ACLU is asking the US government to reveal, in a time of declared war, the details of an apparently successful tactic now being used by the US military to defeat the enemy. If FOIA had existed at the time of WW II, would any court have tolerated for a single minute...
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U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today announced the intent to create a [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]  Climate Service line office dedicated to bringing together the agency’s strong climate science and service delivery capabilities.

“By providing critical planning information that our businesses and our communities need, NOAA Climate Service will help tackle head-on the challenges of mitigating and adapting to climate change,” said Secretary Locke. “In the process, we'll discover new technologies, build new businesses and create new jobs.”

Lewis was a founding co-chair of the Party. According to Working Families spokesman Dan Levitan, Lewis stopped serving as co-chair “about a year ago,” though many people familiar with the Party were unaware of that change and Lewis was identified as a current co-chair in an interview on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show as recently as September.

The change in leadership comes as the Working Families Party and many of its endorsed candidates are providing extensive email and other documentation in response to December subpoenas from the United States Attorney’s office in New York. Lawyers are also preparing to return to Staten Island Supreme Court on Feb. 23 for the lawsuit being brought against the WFP’s company, Data & Field Services, and the campaign of now-Council Member Debi Rose by Randy Mastro on behalf of five Republican-connected residents of her Staten Island district.

what we are seeing is good times for the public sector and the growing prospect of a continuing and perhaps even deepening recession for everybody else.

Right before the Super Bowl, President Barack Obama spoke about health care reform with CBS News’ Katie Couric: “I want to come back and have a large meeting, Republicans and Democrats, to go through systematically all the best ideas that are out there and move it forward.”

According to aides, the President envisions a half-day meeting on February 25th held in Blair House (a building across the street from the White House) presumably televised by C-SPAN. President Obama’s conciliatory rhetoric aside, everyone knows this publicity stunt has nothing to do with actually considering conservative health care reform ideas and everything to do with the appearance of transparency and bipartisanship. The New York Times reports: “In making the gesture on Sunday, Mr. Obama is in effect calling the hand of Republicans who had chastised him for not honoring a campaign pledge to hold health care deliberations in the open, broadcast by C-Span, and for not allowing Republicans at the bargaining table.”

And the reality is that...
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What I want to do is to ask them to put their ideas on the table... I want to come back and have a large meeting, Republicans and Democrats to go through, systematically, all the best ideas that are out there and move it forward.