MAKE THEM EAT CAKE

"Let them eat cake" was attributed to Marie Antoinette, when learning that French peasants could not afford to buy bread. To her credit, at least Marie Antoinette didn't understand that cake was more expensive than bread.

Now it's "Make them eat cake," as a new crop of social critics beg to inform us that we're actually spending too little for the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the furniture we sit on and the gasoline that runs our automobiles.

Charlotte Allen responds: "Keep your self-righteous fingers off my processed food!"

FROM NIMBY TO NUMBY

Not under my back yard: “[Science and technology] research group Battelle is pulling out of a $92.8 million project to test carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Ohio -- one of seven regional sequestration tests underpinning the U.S. Department of Energy's program to kick the wheels on CCS. “ ... “[S]imilar concerns are blocking European power giant Vattenfall's plan to sequester CO2 from its innovative oxyfuel coal-fired power plant in Schwarze Pumpe, Germany.”

Fear of subterranean climate change, perhaps?

LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE OBAMA ERA

Victor Davis Hansen comments on what he's learned in the first 7 months of the Obama era -

[D]o not vote in any national election for any politician from Chicago — the odds are you will be getting the “Chicago Way,” like it or not.

Do not believe there is really anything much left to “race.” Just as feminism has descended into abortion rights, so too “minority” means nothing much at all.

There is no more media. The New York Times, the Washington Post, NBC, CNBC, NPR, etc. are ministries of truth for Obama.

The good life. Privilege is the proper compensation for having the “correct” ideology.

There's much more, so be sure and read his whole commentary and the comments that follow.

Hansen also notes that he's learned that America is a center-right country (which I'm sure he already knew) by following Obama's decline in popularity. My question is "Can Obama ram his agenda through Congress before his inevitable downfall?"