MARIJUANA USE causes mental illness. I had always assumed it to be the other way around.

OUR PRESIDENT’S DOCTOR recommended “moderation of alcohol intake” to The Won.

I can understand why ....

YES, VIRGINIA, there is a hockey stick.

PAIN KILLERS accelerate hearing loss with age.

From the comments: “[I]t doesn't matter. The only person I talk to is my wife, and I have already heard everything she has to say. The TV, I can just turn up the volume.”

Heh.

OBAMA CONSULTS WITH THE REPUBLICANS ON HEALTH CARE. A Nate Beeler cartoon.

I love the shovel.

WHOSE BODY IS IT? “People suffer and die because the government 'protects' us. It should protect us less and respect our liberty more.”

And I’ve noticed that the more I deal with healthcare providers – and insurance – the more I feel like they believe that they own the body part that they specialize in, and that I’m only “leasing it” with their permission.

But it’s for my own good ....

A GOOD QUESTION: Given this history, what reason is there to suppose that Obamacare is a good idea?

AH, MEMORIES. Scroll down memory lane with me. The fifth car from the top [pictured here] was my very first car, a 1953 Studebaker Starliner for which I paid the princely sum of $25 (and my father made me get a bank loan to purchase it).



Rescued from the junkyard in 1960, it lasted until I managed to acquire my second Studebaker, the red convertible at the very bottom of the linked column.

MEDICAL ADVICE for the president.

OOPS! Look at the caption beneath the picture.

Via Hot Air.

OBAMACARE LIVE ON CSPAN3

It’s the (evil) insurance companies.

How dare they try to earn a living.

Congress owes the American people a “final vote” on health care reform.

We’re going for reconciliation.

Make your voice heard.

Well, OK ... not only no, but Hell no!

A MUST-READ if you’re interested in the reconciliation process.

Link from Hot Air.

DENIAL ISN’T A JUST RIVER IN AFRICA. “The administration is perfused with a narcissistic belief that everything they want to do is what the American people want. It doesn’t matter that a national tea party movement has formed and that demonstrations against higher spending, higher taxes, and increased federal intervention in the private sector (banks, automobiles, housing, etc.) have been increasing on almost a weekly basis.”

A SUCCESSFUL PRESIDENCY requires more than the confidence conferred by a high IQ and fancy degrees. "[P]residents must rely on something else, something intangible and unquantifiable, in determining what is within the realm of possibility and what is a bridge too far: intuition."

Which is why the Obama presidency will ultimately be an unsuccessful one.

WHAT IF IT ISN’T TRUE that the politically correct will inherit the universe?

Heh.

FROM THE RADIO: Say “no” to global warming climate change and reduce our dependence on foreign oil by driving plug-in hybrid automobiles powered by clean electricity ... (left unsaid) ... produced from a CO2-belching power plant fueled by dirty coal produced by blowing the tops off West Virginia mountains.

Jeez.

HISTORY'S OLDEST HATRED. On reading this column on anti-semitism, one could reasonably conclude that history's second-oldest hatred is of conservatives.

Or more generally, perhaps, the statists hatred of capitalists.

WASTED TIME: Republicans, hesitant to accept President Obama's invitation to participate in Thursday's White House health-care summit, turned out to be justified.

Though advertised as a consensus-building opportunity, the summit served more as a moment for the president to tell Republicans, with the cameras rolling, why they're wrong and he's right.

The president may soon regret lecturing in lieu of listening.