LAWS ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Democratic candidate accused of unequal pay demands equal pay. “In a new campaign ad, New Mexico Attorney General Gary King claims he will demand equal pay for women in the state. The thing is, three years ago King was accused of pay discrimination by female lawyers in his office. Not only that, but King’s opponent, Republican Gov. Susana Martinez, signed an equal pay bill into law last year.”

Well, no worse than the Obama White House going on about equal pay while paying women less.

WELL, TO BE FAIR, NEITHER CAN ANYONE ELSE: Hillary Can’t Name Top Accomplishment As Secretary of State.

FEET OF CLAY: ABC’s Jonathan Karl Casts Doubt on Obama’s Supposed Top Foreign-Policy Achievements.

Related: Remember When Obama Was Boasting about His Iraq Policy? Expiration Date: Reached.

It's gonna be a long primary: Hillary Avoids the Press: I Have 'Deal' Not to Answer Questions

Which one?  Pick one.  But my favorite would bed the epidemic of useless government. A. Barton Hinkle on the Growing Epidemic of Useless Government

Exhibit No. 3,487,912: Last week, the state's congressional delegation—both senators and every congressman except Bobby Scott—wrote a letter to Gov. Terry McAuliffe urging him to set up a task force to address the "growing heroin epidemic in Virginia." Many localities, they note, "are on track to see double the number of heroin overdose deaths over last year."

Let's stipulate that any heroin overdose is horribly tragic and the ideal number of heroin users would be zero. That said, terms like "epidemic" and "double the number" obscure as much as they clarify. It's true that heroin deaths in Virginia have nearly doubled. They have risen from 101 (in 2011) to 197 (in 2013).

That's less than the number who died in 2012, the most recent year available, from intestinal infections (212); septicemia, or blood poisoning (1,305); pneumonia (1,275); kidney failure (1,501); or falling (646). Are these "epidemics" that require special task forces? If not, does heroin?

I enjoyed the premise of this article but have been a little dissapointed in the posted resuts.  At least the first half.  My liberal friends have been quite enraged when I've posited the suggestions in conversation, esp. my athiest FiL who advised would be ordered to becomvbe Lutheran and tythe once we get rid of the "Freedom of Religeon" he dispises.

Saved some stuff on my Nook that I wanted to share.  Finally got around to filtering it!

 More on Picketty.

On Oligarchical Collectives in 21st Century America

If I was still teaching, THIS  would find my way into a lot of lectures.  Red Pill Economics

And finally - this one is WAY too long, but the economics discussion starting on page 68 are a hoot! See Appendix B

WHY DO ENVIRONMENTALISTS WANT CHILDREN TO GO BLIND AND DIE?

Victoria Times Colonist promotes hatred against skeptics

JAMES TARANTO: Springtime for Warmists: A Beltway commentator endorses “dictatorial” government.

Picketty is getting roasted.  See ... folks don't much like it when you make stuff up and then they really like it and praise it and then it's found out that you made it up and they look stupid.

With all the brouhaha going around regarding income and wealth inequality, the question that is rarely asked is why inequality is something to abhor.  Here's the start of an answer: End Central Banking, End “Unearned” Wealth Inequality

THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED: Blue State Policies Increase Income Inequality. “The income gap between rich and poor tends to be wider in blue states than in red states. Our state-by-state analysis finds that the more liberal states whose policies are supposed to promote fairness have a bigger gap between higher and lower incomes than do states that have more conservative, pro-growth policies. . . . According to 2012 Census Bureau data (the latest available figures), the District of Columbia, New York, Connecticut, Mississippi and Louisiana have the highest measure of income inequality of all the states; Wyoming, Alaska, Utah, Hawaii and New Hampshire have the lowest Gini coefficients. The three places that are most unequal—Washington, D.C., New York and Connecticut—are dominated by liberal policies and politicians. Four of the five states with the lowest Gini coefficients—Wyoming, Alaska, Utah and New Hampshire—are generally red states.”

You don’t want to be a science-denier, do you?

I discussed this in class and the faculty lounge onseveral occasions.  Glad I'm not the only one to notice.  The Solicitor General’s Foolish and Feeble Excuse

and, on OTHER legal issues: Turley: ‘Obama Is Really the President Richard Nixon Always Wanted to Be’

ANDREW MALCOLM: A Clueless President That Wears His Incompetence With Pride.

and coming soon to a White House near you: Hillary Clinton Dodges Responsibility for Benghazi Security: 'That's Why We Hire People'

First came PMSNBC's Ann B Davis snafu.

Then ABC's D-Day Stumble on Omaha Beach: Mistakenly Shows Photo of British Troops Landing

Maybe this one belongs under "Law" but I'm putting it here.  For one of the iconic cases in US Jurisprudence, he certainly gets a LOT wrong in a small amount of space.  RATHER A LOT, REALLY: How many errors can William Greider make in two sentences describing Lochner v. New York?

Then there are the headlines that write themselves: THERE CERTAINLY IS: There’s An Intelligence Crisis At The White House.

and we'll finihs up today with another easy one from MSNBC, Whining About Dems' Loss of State Senate Control in Virginia, Shows a Map of North Carolina

 Meh.  Ten times.  A bajillion times.  None.  It's all the same

Four Pinocchios for Obama’s claim that Republicans have ‘filibustered about 500 pieces of legislation’

A tale of two recoveries

 More on (or is it moron?) Picketty's falacies

Kevin Durant (yes, THAT Kevin Durant) on inequality

Ed Driscoll on two theories of the pedagogy of History

And this MUST READ on the theory of ....several things