JUST ANOTHER WEDNESDAY: Iowahawk on Congressional ethics.

Linked from Instapundit.

SINCE WE CAN’T DRILL FOR DOMESTIC OIL, here is where your gas money is going.


It's a Mercedes Benz owned by an Abu Dhabi oil billionaire (naturally). Featuring the newly developed V10 quad turbo with 1,600 horsepower and 2800nm of torque, it goes 0-100km/hr in less than 2 seconds, a 1/4 mile in 6.89 seconds, and runs on biofuel.

That is not stainless steel, people, it’s white gold.

I'm sure you'll sleep better tonight, knowing that the exorbitant dollars you're paying for gas these days are at least going to a 'good' cause....

“TRYING TO BE MORE CONSCIOUS OF ONE’S OWN BIAS, and even to attempt to work against it, should not be such a hard task for people as brilliant, open-minded, and committed to equality and social justice as I keep hearing that liberal academics are.“

Veronique de Rugy has more.

And the answer is ... three.

GLOBAL WARMING CLIMATE CHANGE SKEPTICS send letter urging Congress not to give into climate alarmists. The letter - with signatories - is here.

MORE BAD THAN GOOD: I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.

FEDERAL TAXES are lowest since 1950. Well, yes, I will pay less in state and federal taxes in 2010 (and did in 2009 for that matter) than I did under the Bush Admininstration.

Under the Bush Administration, I was employed.

SARAH PALIN: Obama can pretend to move to the center, but has no desire to.

The video is here (scroll to bottom).

RUSH LIMBAUGH on Keith Olbermann and Current TV: “They’re paying Olbermann in carbon credits,” Limbaugh said. “They don’t have any money to pay [him].”

And with all the hot air Olbermann emits, he’ll need the credits.

DC HANDGUN BAN: It’s been 2-1/2 years since the Supreme Court ended D.C.’s handgun ban. Where are the mass killings?

OBAMA’S ANTI-LOOPHOLE CALL gets a clean-energy exception. But it’s just a little loophole. Tiny, really.

PUNCHING BACK: The Tea Party takes on Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar. It’s gratifying to see the Tea Party take on “establishmentarians” of whatever stripe.

IT’S NOT JUST NEW JERSEY: Legislators offer nothing but hot air on pension, civil service reform.

SUPER BOWL versus science fair. “Most science-fair winners will never be as instantly celebrated as the winners of the Super Bowl, and that's probably as it should be.” Read it all.

POLITIFACT: Obama is making false claims about healthcare and taxes.

What's sad is that he probably believes himself.

‘USEFUL IDIOTS’ SOLD DOWN THE RIVER. Tough luck, progressives.

HEH: Speaking truth to (whiney liberal) power.

SENATE KEEPS aeronautics research within NASA. Good. It is, after all, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The FAA is - and should be - limited to operating the national airspace safely. Period.

BIG GOVERNMENT hurts the economy.



Linked from Hot Air.

ONE DOWN, ONE TO GO: Virginia Senator Jim Webb won’t seek reelection.

GOOD: Republicans move to block health care funding.

HOGWASH! NASA’s mission has always been undertake, promote, and institutionalize aeronautical research. Astronautics (space) was added to the portfolio in 1958, when the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) became the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), but the mission remained the same -- exploration. Manned space is a component - but only a component - of NASA’s mission.

ON MY INCOME, Obama’s “tough budget cuts” are equivalent to cutting out one senior breakfast for two - including the tip - at IHOP over the course of a year.

Linked from Michelle Malkin.

AIN’T IT THE TRUTH? “Half the nation are eternal adolescents who expect others to be the adults."

A DEFINITION OF HIGH-SPEED RAIL: trains that will carry people almost as fast as cars, though less conveniently.