EPA REGULATIONS force nuclear power plant out of business.

If protecting the environment is so damned important, it should also force closure of the 600,000 homes depending on it for power.

OBAMACARE KILLS DISCOUNT DRUG DEALS to childrens hospitals. "[T]his is precisely the kind of rationing that Congress intended to impose on the American health-care system. And it’s the children who get to pay for it first."

"It's for the children" rings a bit hollow, doesn't it?

CLINTON - TRIANGULATION; Obama - triangrylation!

OBAMA RISKS BECOMING CARTER? According to Instapundit, it should be an aspiration ....

EXTREME CHINOOK HELICOPTER EXTRACTION



That's one helluva pilot.

Linked from Neal Boortz.

EXACTLY! "The alarmists have an excuse for everything but yet not one ounce of evidence to back anything."

From the comments following this post.

CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT ATTENDEES sign petition to ban “dihydrogen monoxide”.

SINCE WHAT WE'RE DOING DOESN'T WORK, we should redouble our efforts!

Remind me of the definition of insanity again.

UNANIMOUS: Al Sharpton is a pinhead. From the comments: "I would only add, 'a freeloading pinhead' ".

WIKILEAKS: espionage or journalism? For the terminal clueless, it ain't journalism.

ANNE APPLEBAUM on the 'ordinary' elite:

The backlash against graduates of "elite" universities seems particularly odd given that the most elite American universities have in the past two decades made the greatest effort to broaden their student bodies. Because they can offer full scholarships, the wealthier Ivy League schools in particular are far more diverse, racially and economically, than they were a few decades ago.

Unfortunately, they are not more diverse intellectually - and that's the problem.

I suspect the "anti-elite-educationism" that Bell predicted is growing now not despite the rise of meritocracy but because of it.

No, it's a result of the lockstep smugness of these "new elites."

GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE revises its report critical of practices at for-profit schools. Apparently helping people qualify for jobs isn't so bad after all.

I'd like to see the post-graduation employment statistics for 'Department of Victimization' graduates at traditional "non-profit" institutions.

NORTH AMERICA: The New Energy Kingdom? Only if the Obama administration can be prevented from stopping it.

ANOTHER LOOK BACK. The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank on the Tea Party and President Obama’s Commission of Fiscal Responsibility and Reform [deficit commission]: “Paradoxically, the Tea Party may be the obstacle blocking the way toward a shrunken government and reduced debt.”

Hmm. Of the seven members of the deficit commission who voted against the Commission's proposal, 4 were Democrats. The three Republicans (Ryan, Hensarling, and Camp) who voted against did so because the recommendations didn't go far enough to reduce spending, especially with respect to healthcare. All three, however, found elements of the recommendations appealing, and all three believed that the Commission recommendations should go to Congress for study.

On the other side, Democrat Representative Jan Schakowsky, also voting no, offered a (Democrat) alternative proposal that included more taxes, more spending.

I don't think the Tea Party is the obstacle.

IF THE U.S. PASSES A LAW that then requires the government to issue over two hundred waivers in the first few months to avoid disastrous consequences for enforcement, doesn’t that indicate a problem in the law itself? ObamaCare waivers now up to 222.

And the waiver recipients are ... surprise ... Obama(care) supporters!

FICA INCREASINGLY IS BEING TREATED AS JUST ANOTHER TAX, and social security benefits as just another government entitlement, to be toyed with as political necessity requires.

All the more reason to privatize Social Security.

SO OBAMA thinks he’s done a good job of keeping his promises.

THINGS I DIDN'T KNOW I NEEDED TO KNOW: how to kill a zombie.

Linked from Instapundit.

ARE ALIENS AMONG US? "After a two-year study at California's Mono Lake, near Yosemite National Park, [U.S. Geological Survey biochemist Dr. Felsia] Wolfe-Simon found that a bug will grow in the presence of the toxic chemical arsenic when only slight traces of phosphorous are present."

Well, arsenic is poisonous to nearly all forms of life on earth, so I guess that an arsenic-based lifeform is alien. But I think we already have aliens among us - we just call them "progressives."

THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF GOOD INTENTIONS



Linked from Instapundit.

NANCY PELOSI INFAMOUSLY SAID that we would have to pass ObamaCare to find out what’s in it. The results are in.

LANGUAGE MATTERS: Thomas Sowell on the rhetoric of the tax debate.

ABOUT TIME: Wis. Governor-Elect raises prospect of union decertification to balance budget. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie should be thinking along the same lines.

THANK THE RICH: the pushback continues.

THE DEMOCRATIC BASE "seems more interested in expanding government than in stimulating the economy. They are bellowing with rage not so much at Obama but at the reality that he is grudgingly acknowledging. They had their time and now it's gone."