AND YOU WONDER why we need (much) smaller (much) less intrusive government?

AND THE IDIOT LETTER WRITER OF THE WEEK AWARD goes to A.L. Cynton of Laguna Beach, CA. Look, I don't care if the Congressional "supercommittee" is made up of little furry purple trisexuals from Neptune. All I care about is getting spending under control and the national debt reduced.

BRITISH AUTOMAKER to build ultra-luxury SUV: "Pricing has not been announced, but given the nature of the vehicle your Ford Explorer trade-in probably won't cover more than the sales tax."

HEY, YOU GET 99 WEEKS OF VACATION. I only get 10 days.

LOOK HERE: Are aliens trying to show us something on the surface of Titan?

BUT ONLY THE LITTLE PEOPLE WERE HARMED: Firearms from ATF sting linked to 11 more violent crimes.

KIRSTEN POWERS: Stop Attacking Evangelicals! There's a lot of misinformation out there.

IS CALIFORNIA'S HIGH-SPEED RAIL a boondoggle? Well, yes.

REPUBLICANS ARE RACISTS, and we'll manufacture whatever evidence we need to prove it.

THEY CAN'T WAIT to make idiots of themselves, can they?

TOBACCO FIRMS SUE FDA over new graphic warnings. They ought to take a page from the Left's playbook and sue on the basis of the Left's most fundamental right -- the right not to be offended. I'd also suggest that the warnings constitute "hate speech" against an (un)protected class: smokers.

HISTORY REPEATS: cartoon from 1934.


From my email. And no, I'm not saying the current administration is communist; I'm saying the same dumb ideas keep repeating themselves.

OBAMA: I have a plan.

AS EXPECTED: Seattle's 'green jobs' program a bust.

THE POWER of the debt side.

IN A COMMENTARY damming Gov. Rick Perry with faint praise, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen must have hurt to write this: "Perry may turn out to be no Ronald Reagan. But then he doesn’t have to be. After all, Barack Obama has turned out to be no Barack Obama."