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As bad as the recession was (is), can we please admit now that it is preposterous to compare today to the Great Depression?

Why Democrats shouldn't toy with Lindsey Graham

The title alone provide some comic relief, if Borger's analysis weren't book-ended by these truffle quotes:

Sen. Lindsey Graham is the new John McCain. Scratch that. Actually, he's the old John McCain.

and

[T]he White House needs to keep Lindsey Graham in the game, not sulking on the sidelines.

Presidential commision to address rising national debt

Just what we needed: another blue-ribbon panel. This seems like sending that one legged man at the butt-kicking contest over to kick the barn door shut now that the horses are gone.

If VAT, ditch the income tax

As morally appealing a notion as taxing consumption, rather than income, is to many on the right, the conditional for this argument will not be tied to the consequence any time soon.

Subsidizing bad behavior: the injustice of tort reform

Are frivolous law suits the price we must pay for genuine cases for justice? ... Really?

Bernanke confident in recovery; warns on deficit

While the Fed Chair does his customary straddle, Krauthammer is more certain where we are headed.

Carlsberg workers end strike over cut beer rations

I cannot decide whether this is has been a righteous fight to preserve access to one of God's graces, or just one more example of rights creep.

Vatican blasts anti-Catholic 'hate' campaign

With George W. Bush out of office for over a year, the hate has to go somewhere.

Why batters get hit

George Will's discussion of Jason Turbow's "The Baseball Codes" about the game's unwritten rules in honor of Opening Day.

Delany calls larger tournament 'probable'

The Big Ten commissioner indicates the NCAA cannot leave well enough alone. Doug Gottlieb (former 'Poke) gets it right on not expanding the basketball tournament, with a point that is not limited to a great tournament:

The thing that is kind of going under the radar is how we don't understand the law of unintended consequences.

'RapeLay' video game goes viral amid outrage

Whether the result of moral confusion, or a necessary evil of the freedoms of the internet, or both, dehumanizing women still plays.

How the Left fakes the hate

Did happiness on the left die with Paul Wellstone? What was once worth a chuckle when it lived as Bush Derangement Syndrome, has now become tiresome with its manufactured state of projection.

More Greenland ice melts faster

If the president is as successful with delivering his health care promises as he was to have been with the recovery from glacial melting the instant he was elected, presumably because Nature (capital "N") would sense that he had been elected, then we may be doomed.

The future of politics lies with women

It is hard to refute the increasing influence of women on politics given the demographic trends in the West alone. However, to assume there is a monolithic leftist bloc waiting to tapped as described here would be to commit the same error that people make about Catholics.

The health bill's collateral damage

The first of many such stories as to how Obamacare falls short of the hype, now that we get to find what was in the bill because it was passed.

Twins agree to terms with Joe Mauer

Making good on their implicit promise to build a winner now that they have their new stadium,  the Twins quelled a slowly building anxiety and got a little bit of a hometown discount to boot. Now if we can find a closer...

Acorn on brink of bankruptcy, officials say

We can only hope this is the end for Acorn. Professional activists have a way of surviving, so some form of reincarnation is likely.

Is food the new sex?

That there is a relationship between the human experiences of food and sex is a common sense statement. What is curious, as both have come into abundance in the West and the progressive view on both subjects has come to dominate, is how little recognition is being given in the culture to the transfer of restrictive mores from sex to food (and smoking for that matter). What is not curious is the failure of imagination to recognize that lust is every bit as deadly a sin as gluttony. Rest assured that what goes around will come around.

US credit rating at risk, Moody's warns

Here is a way Obamacare could get aborted: All that pre-collection goes to cover escalating debt payments, if the rosy recovery scenarios don't play out. How long then until the executive branch takes over the ratings agencies to "correct" the risk valuation? And that might be a best case solution.

Solar sector's long-term outlook is far from sunny

With solar being a low-density energy source, the need for innovation in not in the novelty of the technology, but in the reduction in cost and increase in scalability. This means that the industry will struggle for the foreseeable future unless government subsidizes the installation of solar on a massive scale, bringing the financial and cultural dislocations that would go with it.