A COMPREHENSIVE LIST of tax hikes in ObamaCare.

THE MORTGAGE DEDUCTION heavily favors blue states. The conclusion is controversial - read the comments.

EVEN IN TEXAS, higher ed fatcats get fatter.

FOX NEWS has a poll on their Special Report web page asking if Michele Bachmann's "Tea Party" response to the SOTU will detract from the Republican response. Right now the votes are about 70% "no." Personally, I think the Tea Party response is more important than the Republican response.

NEXT, a 'Federal Pedestrian Management' agency?

Look, Mom, I'm exercisi-AIEEEEEEE!!

Instead of “Let’s Move,” perhaps the First Lady should have called her youth exercise program the “Let’s Move Out of the Way” campaign: “The Governors Highway Safety Association says pedestrian deaths increased in the first half of 2010 and the First Lady’s program to get Americans to be more active could be partly responsible."

Sure, Michelle Obama is cutting down on American kids eating pizza . . . only to watch them become street pizza. She’s getting them to go on expeditions, it is it worth it if they’re getting mowed down by Ford Expeditions? American kids are taking up golf, only to get knocked off the road by VW Golfs. Just as America’s kids can fit in their Wrangler jeans, they’re getting hit by Jeep Wranglers. They’re picking up the pace, only to get hit by an AMC Pacer . . . eh, that joke doesn’t work; if a Pacer hits you, the car ends up getting damaged.

Read it all.

MY WIFE, an elementary school teacher, received in the mail today this ‘Notification of Violation’ from the BUREAU OF CORRECT SPEECH & THINKING, Enforcement Division, Washington, DC.


It was, in fact, a solicitation to subscribe to Human Events magazine. While I doubt we’ll take them up on the offer, I must admit that it is a very clever piece of advertising.

THOSE LAZY, HAZY, CRAZY DAYS OF SUMMER: Andrew Klavan, on the culture.

CAT NAPS

OBAMA’S COMEBACK: PowerLine agrees with my conclusion.

WHY AREN’T more people moving to Massachusetts?

IT’S THE TAXPAYER’S FAULT: In Philadelphia abortion clinic murders, liberals blame stingy American taxpayers.

ARE YOU READY for Senator Olbermann? Well, we’ve already got one loon Senator Franken in the Senate. And let’s face it - a rematch with Linda McMahon (of WWE fame) would be a sportscaster’s dream match.

BARREL FISHING: Ann Althouse is devastating.

Best comment: “Outside of subjects like engineering and the hard sciences, academia has outlived its usefulness in the US. The liberal arts (no coincidence in that nomenclature , is there?) are run by a closed community of ideologues who detest dialogue. I am advising my kids not to go to college unless they wish to study something that is demonstrably useful to the world.”

Linked from Instapundit - more there.

THE RUSH IS ON to make food traceable. And the regulations will soon make food so expensive that there will be no need for traceability -- no one will be able to buy any.

25 YEARS AGO TODAY, Voyager 2 made its close pass of the planet Uranus.


Voyager 2 launched on August 20, 1977. In 1973-74, I was a member of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory design team for Voyager’s communication system. The work I did there eventually led to my doctoral dissertation, Concatenated Convolutional Codes: Applications to Deep Space Telecommunication.

TOWING COMPARISON: "Just remember: If your truck ever had a tough time pulling its gross combined weight up a hill, the Delta IV Heavy generates more than 100,000 times the Ram's power output to lift the near-equivalent weight into space. And it does so with zero emissions."

DUH! ”Environmentalists may not know what they're talking about.”

DR. MANNY ALVAREZ: Will Obama’s State of the Union Make Doctors Happy?

Hmmm . . . I have a headache, let me go to a neurologist to get a CAT scan and get my brain checked out. Then I’ll get the newest, strongest pain reliever. Never mind going to my primary care physician to check my blood pressure and tell me to take a couple of aspirin and relax. But wait – what if he misses something? Oh that’s right, I’ll just sue.

I guess not.

A MODEST PROPOSAL for SOTU seating: alphabetically, like in kindergarten.

PALIN ON REAGAN: he was ‘America’s lifeguard.’

NOTE: it’s not February yet; so Dana Milbank and the Washington Post can still comment.