THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT: the citizen class is reasserting its power over the ruling class. “Participants have emerged for one reason only: They know in their hearts and they feel in their souls the unalienable rights endowed by their Creator - life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. At the same time, Tea Partiers sense that our present government seems increasingly antithetical toward these natural rights, and a threatening enmity exists.”

ADMINISTRATIVE BLOAT: The real reason for high costs in higher education.

My only quibble is that the article is too narrow. The same can be said for almost any publicly-funded (read Government) entity.

NEVER MIND THE POLAR BEARS, I’m having a little trouble with having a “Center for Health and Global Environment” at a medical school.

DISENGAGEMENT:a lesson for today.

THERE ARE DEATH PANELS. “The solution ... is to undermine the pharmaceutical companies' profitability and eventually put them out of business, so they can't keep inventing cures society can't afford (in the comments).

GROUND ZERO MOSQUE reality check by Bill Whittle.

OBAMA’S ENDGAME: a look at the national debt.



And you can vote on this weeks cuts from the Republicans’ YouCut Project here.

I HOPE SHE INVESTIGATES HARRY REID: Pelosi calls for investigation of WTC mosque opposition.

DISMANTLING AMERICA: Thomas Sowell comments: “The Constitution was not only a challenge to the despotic governments of its time, it has been a continuing challenge-- to this day-- to all those who think that ordinary people should be ruled by their betters, whether an elite of blood, or of books or of whatever else gives people a puffed-up sense of importance.”

JOIN ‘TEAM PELOSI:’ Make it ‘Team Anyone-But-Pelosi' and I’ll consider it.

COMMON SENSE: cops, crime, and the economy.

HAS THE WHITE HOUSE used the government's power to propagandize for political gain?

I’m not sure how seriously to take this report as I’m certain that it has happened in previous administrations. However, it is certainly much more brazen under the Obama administration, and I have to wonder if that brazenness isn’t a significant contributing factor to the plunge in popularity in the polls.

LIBERAL discovers economics. There may be hope yet.