MORE PROOF THAT THE NANNY STATE HAS RUN AMOK: Feds Consider Limiting Potatoes Offered to Kids.

NAACP ACCUSES THE TEA PARTY of being "permeated with concerns about race." From the comments: "Ummm, this is coming from the organization solely permeated with concerns about race?"

MULTICULTURALISM "has created problems so obvious that only the intelligentsia could fail to see them. It takes a high IQ to evade the obvious."

MAMA GRIZZLY versus mama grizzly.

WASHINGTON POST COLUMNIST DANA MILBANK (A Tea Party of populist posers) appears to believe that "elitism" consists of having a net worth in the hundreds of millions; the notion that elitism is a state of mind eludes him.

Dana, if you want to find out what Tea Partiers mean by the phrase "self-appointed elite", read this - or go in the bathroom and look in the mirror.

Jeez. Every time I think the guy can't possibly be any stupider, he surprises me.

I'LL GO WITH "The Great Refudiation."

PART-TIME WORKERS' INCOME PLUMMENTS. The Washington Post isn't very strong in the common sense department; income usually plummets when the economy tanks.

WHY REPUBLICANS WILL WIN IN NOVEMBER: they only kinda suck. Read it all; you'll understand.

THE DEMOCRATS' QUANDRY: "If you’re the party of big government it’s in your long-term interest to deliver big government services as effectively and inexpensively as possible. The public employee unions tend to be your adversary, not your ally, up and down the line: their incentives are to increase costs and reduce accountability."

Democrats are not warriors; they tend to forget that the enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.

THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT ... "has brought many new people into politics --- and many with sharper political instincts than their detractors in the press have been able to understand."

THE 2010 IG NOBEL AWARDS have been presented. The Ig Nobel Awards honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative—and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology.

My personal favorites are the engineering prize, for perfecting a method to collect whale snot using a remote-control helicopter, and the management prize, for demonstrating mathematically that organizations would become more efficient if they promoted people at random.

BARNEY FRANK'S POPULARITY in Massachusetts is on the wane. It's about time.

More here.

U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE VIRGINIA PHILLIPS declares "don't ask don't tell unconstitutional; the Obama administration - correctly in my view - appeals the decision, asking that it be held until the military completes its review in December.

Here's why: gay activists and lawyers.

Linked from Commentary Magazine.

WHY THE LEFT SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED LOADED WEAPONS: they're too likely to shoot themselves in the foot.

And be sure to check out the storyboard and Iowahawk links ....

AMBER ALERT issued for "by our Creator." Once might accidental; twice, concidential; but three times? That's a pattern.