SIR BARACK THE VALIANT Ed Morrissey is not as kind as Nate Beeler.

CONSERVATIVES should no longer be happy about budget deal.

[I]it now appears that the new Republican majority has done what it attacked Democrats for doing when they controlled the House. They negotiated a back room deal, didn't release the details until 2 a.m., and the more we have of the details, the more we find out that the actual deal is filled with accounting gimmicks. Not a good way to earn back the trust of conservatives ....

"Trust, but verify" needs less trust and more verify.

ORBITING DUST STORM could remove space junk. It could also remove satellites, space stations, and other living things. It is an interesting proposal, though - the unintended consequences will be a wonder to behold - and I've seen similar proposals in my normal line of work.

WASHINGTON POST columnist E.J. Dionne gets the Tea Party - and everything else - wrong again. At his core, Dionne believes government is essential in making the United States more competitive. Tea Partiers disagree, and to Dionne, disagreement is somehow evil.

ONLY YOU CAN STOP HIM!

OBAMA'S DEFICIT SPEECH.

From the left: "the man America elected president has re-emerged."

From the center left: "kicking the can down the road ... is not leadership."

From the center: "pitiful."

From the center right: "was he serious?"

From the right: "rather than building bridges, he's poisoning wells."

SIXTEEN TONS (OF DEBT). Sleep well.



From IowaHawk, via Instapundit.

MICKEY KAUS on the real healthcare divide: treatment vs. rationing.

Sometimes it’s better – politically and morally – to have decentralized decisions, made by doctors and patients on all sorts of varied grounds. Even if it looks irrational, it will respect both life and individual autonomy (and the equality thereof).

The quote appears to put me in the “treatment” category, but I’m rather of the category that believes the decision is best left to those most intimately involved - the patient, family, and those they deem necessary for support.

LAHOOD "OUTRAGED" by sleeping air traffic controllers. No, he isn't. He's outraged because he got caught with his pants down with his incompetence on full display.

IF YOU'RE SO DAMN PATRIOTIC, write the Treasury a check!

OBAMA’S CHARITY STATE: “Nearly half of American households — 47 percent — pay no federal income tax whatsoever. Raising that number to over 50 percent by increasing the number of poor and getting them to vote appears to be the Democrats’ election strategy.”

A RETURN TO COLONIALISM? Recent history in the Middle East suggests that this may become necessary (and on the bright side would necessitate the dissolution of the United Nations). Linked from Instapundit.

LOOKING BACK TO THE HOOVER ADMINISTRATION for answers: "If stimulus is the solution to high unemployment," remarks Santa Clara University economist and law professor David Friedman, "the Great Depression should have ended almost before it began."

SUPPORT TEEN DRINKING - and earn the youth vote.

THE LEMMINGS ARE BEATING US TO THE CLIFF’S EDGE; we have to catch up!