Readers were greeted this morning by news that President Obama, the Democratic president, sometimes called the first liberal US president in almost half a century, is proposing cuts to Social Security in this years budget. This shouldn’t come as a great surprise. These are the ‘chained CPI’ cuts we’ve heard about for a while as what the president would be willing to put on the table in a so-called ‘grand bargain.’ So what’s going on here? Read More

Republican super donor Sheldon Adelson appeared in a Las Vegas court to testify about his Chinese casino deals.

It looks like we have a verdict on the wisdom of massive cuts in spending in the middle of an economic recovery.

After interceding to try to save the state’s anti-sodomy law earlier this week, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said his push had nothing to do with homosexuality. But back in 2009 he explained that “homosexual acts” are wrong, violate “natural law” and “should not be accommodated in government policy.”

James Holmes’ psychiatrist warned campus police about his homicidal thoughts a month before his Aurora theater rampage.

Texas A&M sees drive to let students opt out of having their fees going to the school’s ‘GLBT’ center.

Best part of story may be the slight hat tip to patriarchy in the local acronym.

Taking over at Heritage, ex-Sen. DeMint echoes agenda against ‘the 47%.’

Unlike gays and immigrants, why guns are the one wedge issue that will not go away. Fascinating stuff. And what gun control advocates are trying to do about it.

Lots of prison terms are way to long. There are too many people in prison. And Eric Holder seems to agree.

GOP voter suppression tactics got a decent if not overwhelming amount of coverage during the 2012 election, as did the general consensus that it ended up backfiring on Republicans in a big way. But most of the MSM narrative comes through the prism of white people, on both sides of the issue, talking to each other. Hunter Walker went to a panel on vote suppression and GOP ‘outreach’ at the annual National Action Network (the group founded by Al Sharpton) yesterday and filed this report. The headliners were Charlie Rangel and freshman Rep. Hakeem Jeffries. Really worth reading.