MICHAEL BARONE: "Barack Obama has shown that lack of leadership leaves pretty much everyone dissatisfied."

FROM MY SCAM SPAM FOLDER: 'Stimulus' Grants.

THAT'S RIGHT. "We look like a bunch of dirty kids hanging out!"

THE NEW HOCKEY STICK? I know correlation doesn't imply causation, but ....

ELIZABETH WARREN: a pyromaniac in a field of straw men.

DEBIT FEES. Lemons, lemonade, unintended or intended consequences, I'm struck by the fact that the real question is being ignored. Why is it that price-fixing is illegal unless the government does it?

KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON on Steve Jobs and philanthropy. Jobs' model is superior.

WARNING: this post contains words. Since consumers can't -- or won't read -- the next logical step is for the government to issue 'rationing cards' specifying what products a consumer is authorized to buy depending on his/her medical history.

MORE GOVERNMENT WASTE: no syrup on pancakes. Guess where the dry pancakes go?

THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY, by the numbers.

"AN ARROGANT ELITE'S condescension toward the people -- treating them as children who have to be jollied along -- is one of the poisonous problems of our time. It is at the heart of the nanny state and the promotion of a debilitating dependency that wins votes for politicians while weakening a society."

Read it all.

TIME MAGAZINE: Who's Bankrolling the Climate-Change Deniers? Alternate question: Who's bankrolling the climate-change activists? I'd suggest the correct answer is the taxpayers.

NOT BAD for a 'global warming' advocate. With that kind of income, why does he need a day job?

THE BIGGEST OBSTACLE in deflecting a killer asteroid away from Earth may be humanity's inability to get along. No worries, mate. By the time that asteroid comes along, the current economic crisis will have already killed off humanity.

UNEXPECTEDLY: "Business types really hate Barack Obama. Everybody sort of knows that, but it’s hard to get a sense of it if you’re not in the room listening to them laugh bitterly at questions like, 'Does Obama understand the damage regulations are doing to business?'”

OCCUPY WALL STREET, explained.

LIGHTS ON, nobody home.

COMMON SENSE is in short supply in government: New Jersey girl, 10, told to get rid of her 4-H chickens.