MADE IN THE USA?


The issue isn’t manufacturing; it’s that Americans are so damned productive.

BUMPER STICKER OF THE DAY. Hey, I like Volvos.


[Added] from the comments: “Buy a Prius; I need your gas” on the back of a 4x4 pickup.

WHO’S THE BOSS? You, or your gadget? Gadgets have an ‘off’ switch. [Random thought: in a socialist society, are people people or gadgets?]

NAVY’S X-47B DRONE makes its first flight.

MORE ON SARAH PALIN’S address to the Young America’s Foundation.

ON TO MARS -- but not back to Earth. I predict there will be plenty of volunteers.

TRANSLATING LIBERAL-SPEAK

Arsenal of Weapons - Gun Collection
Delicate Wetlands - Swamp
Undocumented Worker - Illegal Alien
Cruelty-Free Materials - Synthetic Fiber
Taxes or Your Fair Share - Coerced Theft
Commonsense Gun Control - Gun Confiscation
Multicultural Community - High Crime Area
Social Progress - Marxism
"The Rich" - Self-Employed
Investment For the Future - Higher Taxes
Healthcare Reform - Socialized Medicine
Extremist, Judgmental, or Hater - Conservative
Truants - Homeschoolers
Fair Trade Coffee - Overpriced Yuppie Coffee
Exploiters - Employed or Land Owner
The Gun Lobby - NRA Members
Assault Weapon Grandpa's M1 Carbine
Fiscal Stimulus - New and Higher Taxes
Eco-Friendly Lighting - Mercury-Laden Light Bulbs

As the snow melts, my yard has been transformed into a "delicate wetlands."

BIG BUSINESS/BIG GOVERNMENT COLLUSION: Chrysler releases $9M Super Bowl ad while requesting more taxpayer dollars.

I’M REMINDED of Ronald Reagan’s 1964 “A Time for Choosing” speech "whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves." Some of us, I fear, have and this is the result: "Green-energy plant sucks up subsidies, then goes bust."

A NOTE FROM PAJAMAS MEDIA.

The threat of a nuclear Iran is looming over America and the world. Despite being party to the international nuclear non-proliferation treaty implemented more than 30 years ago, Iran's leaders are adamant about continuing their pursuit of nuclear weapons.

Iranium, a new documentary film by Clarion Productions, depicts the danger behind the threat. The documentary will be available for free on Tuesday, Feb. 8, on its website. Please tell your friends about this important film.

To really understand the severity of this issue, we must know the ideology of Iran's leaders. The 60-minute film uses rarely seen footage of them and interviews with 25 leading experts on Middle East policy, terrorism and nuclear proliferation -- including former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton and PJM writer Michael Ledeen. The film, which also features Iranian dissidents, visually demonstrates the hatred and violence exhibited by Iran's brutal leadership.

The experts interviewed in the film also explain how Iran could use its nuclear arsenal to exert leverage in the Middle East, and it sketches various potential scenarios of an Iran with nuclear weapons. For example, a nuclear Iran would trigger an arms race in the Middle East and have a huge impact on the cost and availability of oil, which would reverberate across the world.

As the film explains: "What happens when a regime that openly desires the destruction of nations obtains nuclear weapons? The world may suffer unthinkable consequences."

Watch the trailer (YouTube here), and be sure to visit the site on Tuesday, Feb. 8, to watch the full documentary.

LICENSING: “It’s win-win ... for everyone but taxpayers and small operators in licensed markets.”

The same is true for the Professional Engineer (PE) license. More here and here.

I WAS going to ask the same question.

DICK CHENEY: I opposed Reagan - and learned from him.

I’D LET MINE FLUSH if I could be sure they used it first.

LOOPHOLES BEHIND DEMOCRAT PLEDGE not to take corporate or lobbyist money for their 2012 convention. But they're just little loopholes. Tiny. No, really.