HEH. "Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., is an officer and a gentleman, a career soldier elected to Congress in the 2010 midterms. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., is a shrew and a feminist (perhaps we repeat ourselves), and also a demagogue, fond of blaming her foes for wanting to starve little children."

OBAMA — Huey Long with a better tailor.

TO SOLVE THE DEBT CRISIS, my wife suggested selling the White House furniture. Unfortunately I think China has already bought the White House and everything in it.

THE WHITE HOUSE: expensive, inefficient, and highly toxic. Chris Muir (Day by Day) summed it up very well.

IS MICHELLE OBAMA trying to kill me? Uh, yes.

ANDREW KLAVAN EXPLAINS where money comes from.


Hat tip Instapundit.

THOMAS SOWELL: Obama's 'Balanced' Approach.

WHY DEMOCRATS are not so enamored of the Fair Tax. "[I]t doesn’t offer much in the way of opportunities for graft."

OOPSIE! NASA Satellite Data Blows Big Hole in Global Warming Models. How long will it take Democrats to press to defund NASA as part of their deficit-reduction plan?

HOUSE HEADS FOR BOEHNER VOTE: strictly along party lines.

I'm leaning toward believing that the debt relief bill will eventually pass for the simple reason that with an execution looming, even a 6-month reprieve looks good.

DOJ IS PROBING if state voter ID laws are racially discriminatory. Of course they are; the pictures are in color.

WE SCREWED UP; but it's your problem.

INSTAPUNDIT PREDICTS that his cat - if he had a cat - could beat President Obama in the next election. Well, since Democrats seem to have an obsession with "fat cats," I thought Diamond might be willing to run. She's a fat cat, female, mixed race, comes from a broken home, is willing to live on a salary of milk and (tuna) cookies, and has read Atlas Shrugged. In short, she is a perfect Republican candidate.


When I asked her, her reply was "Nyah." But she might be susceptible to a "Draft Diamond" movement.

INSTALANCHE: Thanks, everyone. Please stay and look around. In the meantime, Diamond promises she will look for her birth certificate.

THE OBAMA DOCTRINE: Apologize.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: the man without a plan. Oh, hell, he has a plan: the "Robbing Hood" plan. Spend whatever he wants, on whatever he chooses, and steal whatever he needs. Robbing Hood doesn't need a budget.

SHARED BY WHOM? "It is clear we must enter an era of austerity; to reduce the deficit through shared sacrifice."

WALTER E. WILLIAMS: Job Destruction Makes Us Richer.

I agree with Williams, but ... what is happening to all those entry-level jobs that are the 'first rung' on the success ladder? When I was a kid, there were jobs, like pumping gas and cleaning windshields at the local gas station, that could lead further - say auto mechanic or station owner - without further formal education. Now, though, it seems to me that that path is slowly disappearing. Formal education is a de facto must. And let's face it: our educational system stinks and every dollar the government pours in makes it worse.

OBAMANOMICS and the race to poverty.

ENCELADUS is raining on Saturn.


Enceladus spews some 4,000 gallons/minute by way of huge water jets emanating from its southern polar region. A few percent of that makes its way to a "water ring" around the planet.