WOMEN’S ISSUES and the glass ceiling. “For decades now we have talked about the glass ceiling women once faced, and to a certain extent still do. But I am more worried about the glass box that liberal feminists have placed women and ‘women’s issues’ in, all tied up with a pretty pink bow. That glass box is all about keeping women and ‘women’s issues’ firmly in their place on the left side of the political spectrum.”

WHERE DO STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS get their tax revenue?

On the average, about 45% from individual income and sales taxes. Adding in property taxes, close to 80%.

UNFORTUNATELY they still don’t get it.

In November, they will.

HOORAY FOR government regulation.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON. “You get the picture: our parents and grandparents left us a wonderful infrastructure, methodology, and constitutional system. So it is hard for our generation (I was born in 1953) to screw things entirely up, although we have done our best, within a mere twenty years of coming into the responsibility of governance.”

Read it all, and as a bonus Hanson fisks a self-proclaimed nuanced expert on Islam.

MEDICINE IS NOT ONE SIZE FITS ALL. True, but the solution implied in this article has frightening implications.

THE CHURCH OF PERPETUAL OFFENSE. First talk radio’s Laura Schlessenger, then former Senator and co-chairman of the President’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform Alan Simpson, and now a Colorado high school student have been brought up by the perpetually offended on charges of speaking plainly.

Sarah Palin has it partly correct: it’s past time to throw off the “shackles” of politically correct whining. I differ only in that I think it’s past time to publicly - and loudly - express our disgust at their chronic bellyaching.

Assuming for the moment that there’s a Constitutional right to not be offended, then we have the right - no, the obligation - to demand the perpetually hypersensitive to sit down, shut up, and quit infringing on our right not to be offended by their whining.

“MORAL HAZARD” isn’t moral - when the taxpayers foot the bill.

People change their behavior when the government pays with the taxpayers' money, either directly, as a mandate, or indirectly, as a tax. What infuriates me is that the moral hazard induced by the liberals’ politicians’ government-mandated and subsidized safety net is used as an excuse to further regulate - control - the very behaviors that the “safety net” was originally put in place to mitigate.

“I’M BEGINNING TO THINK Obama was right in his assessment of bitter clingers. He just had it wrong as to location (big cities, not small towns) and the cause (loss of political power, not fear of foreigners).”

Linked from Instapundit.

TAKING HIS CUE from the ‘Cash for Clunkers’ program, Bill Sweet suggests that we (meaning you and me, the taxpayers) simply pay owners of dirty coal plants to shut them down: “Paying ... could ... give the economy an added boost, the same way bribing people to buy new cars did.”

And ‘Cash for Clunkers’ was a resounding success, right?

TURNING THE CORNER: I applied for Social Security today.


Original here.

AMEN: The GOP is in danger of becoming the Sore Loser Party and destroying its credibility with grass-roots activists in the process.

Read it all.

THROW THE BUMS OUT. Just because they’re “establishment” doesn’t mean they aren’t bums.

OUCH! “The New York Times still has big advertisers?”

HEH. New Republican Party logo leaked!

THE MEANING OF "RECOVERY SUMMER: "The banks are recovering all those buildings from all those deadbeats they should not have loaned money to."