GOV. WALKER wins the Battle of First Wisconsin.

WELL, SO MUCH FOR EUROPEAN FLYING. The inclusion of aviation in the [European Union] cap-and-trade system may push up fares.

Or reduce the number of flights ....

DEMOCRAT STAFF engineered mob’s unlawful invasion of Wisconsin Capitol Building. Link and comment rich; take your time and read carefully.

DO YOU WANTto give greater economic opportunities to more Americans? Then education is not the way to do it, Paul Krugman writes in the New York Times. It's one of the more incredible and demonstrably untrue assertions he has made so far this year, and that's saying something.

Follow the link. I'm convinced by the data, but I suspect there's a nugget of truth to Krugman's basic claim. The "educrats" have so cheapened a college degree that it has about the same worth as my 1962 high school diploma.

For a contrary view, see here.

HARRY REID: Republican budget cuts will mean the end of cowboy poetry. "If Democrats are unwilling to abide belt-tightening on federal subsidies for regional cowboy poetry festivals, that tells you everything you need to know about their seriousness on spending."

SENATE REJECTS BUDGET PLANS nine days before deadline. This time the Republicans must hang tough and refuse to settle for less even if it risks a government shutdown (which no one beyond the chattering class will ever notice). As Rahm Emanuel once said, “Never let a crisis go to waste.”

OBAMCARE WAIVERS: On Wednesday, I suggested that it would be sompler just to count the number of waivers that have not yet been granted. Today there are only 56 left to grant.

CHARLIE SHEEN: I'm losing my mind. That presupposes he had one to begin with.

AN OPEN LETTER TO LARDBUTT:

You want war? Bring it, Lardbutt. You are the biggest talking, good for nothing little piece of Communist filth this country has produced in decades. You suck up to backward brutes and thugs like Castro while you castigate the American engines of the world’s economy. You trash this country and our people and belittle our values every chance you get, you cynical black hole of a human being. The worst words I can think of are too good to use to describe you. You are a buffoon, a hypocrite, and really of no use to civilization whatsoever.

Brian Preston is not thrilled with Michael Moore.

"IT'S CLEAR that Obamacare was seriously botched. We need to repeal the damned thing and start over with a more modest, incremental, and carefully vetted alternative."

HMM. Ice sheets melting, sea level rising faster than previously thought.

51% IS 'UNDEMOCRATIC'.

TANSTAAFL (there ain't no such thing as a free lunch). Thomas Sowell explains.

Read it all.

PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME how several thousand Democratic and union thugs (but I repeat myself) can take time off from work to occupy the Wisconsin Capitol building. Could it be because they’re on the dole?

LAUGHTER is the only medicine. "In these absurd times, when both parties quibble over crumbs while the layer cake of debt rises higher and higher, laughter is a mark of fiscal seriousness.”

NO, PROHIBITION AND THE 55 MPH SPEED LIMIT were sensible by comparison.

JUAN WILLIAMS MUST BE HAPPY: NPR CEO Vivian Schiller has resigned.

WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, the 'tough' get going - on the road.

WE'RE NOT LAUGHING WITH YOU, we're laughing at you, clowns.

IS IT TIME to defund public broadcasting? Fox News poll says yes (94%).

WISCONSIN votes to strip union rights. It's not over by a long shot, especially given the unions' propensity for mob rule, but I'm certainly pleased to find that Gov. Walker and the Republican legislators have cojones. With similar happenings in other states, it may be that the tide is finally turning.

FORGET $5 GAS; we're shooting for $10.

IF YOU DON'T LIKE PAYING UNION DUES that are used to support Democratic candidates, you can always get another job.

SOCIALIZED MEDICINE in theory and in practice. If you like theory, you'll love socialized medicine.