AMERICA'S MOMENT OF TRUTH: Only tough leadership can save the economy.

HEY, I'M UNEMPLOYED TOO! Rep. Jesse Jackson Calls on Government to Hire All Unemployed Americans for $40,000 Each.

Just how stupid do you have to be to be a U.S. Congressman? Reps. Steny Hoyer and Mike Pence must be embarrassed to be in the same picture as Rep. Jackson.

WELL, JOBLESS CLAIMS should grow by one -- but they won't.

THE HUFFINGTON POST'S Amanda Terkel notes that Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan looks an awful lot like the default tax settings in the SimCity video game. So the solution is to elect more gamers to Congress?

PAYBACK TIME: President Obama travels to Michigan today, where he will subtly [?] remind residents they owe him their votes after he bailed out their state with other people’s money.

PLEASE DO: Liberals should embrace Occupy Wall Street. It'll give Tea Partiers a chance to remind America that "spitting on Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (still unproven)" is not on a par with assaulting Kenneth Gladney and "heckling gay congressman Barney Frank" is not on a par with defecating on a police car.

A BAD SIGN OF THE TIMES: On television last night I noticed both Sears and WalMart advertising layaway purchases -- something I haven't seen in a number of years.

MICHELLE MALKIN: Costs of the Occupiers.

Obviously government doesn't feel any obligation to protect the taxpayers.

JONAH GOLDBERG: The Diminishing Returns of Reasonableness. Too bad President Obama was never a Boy Scout; he might then understand their motto 'Be Prepared'.

THE ANSWER: "How come pro-life folks don't care enough to adopt and/or support by taxation those children they insist be born?" I would only add that in reference to the "support by taxation" phrase, the strings attached make care damn near impossible.

A MINOR OBSERVATION: now that I'm mostly home and in charge of household maintenance, pet food should be renamed "pre-litter".

BOB GOLDMAN on how to become a millionaire.

A LIBERTARIAN camps out with Wall Street occupiers. I can agree with the point about big business and big government being too close, but as Timothy Carney observes: "They ... don't seem to understand that getting government more involved in the economy always gets business more involved in government."

GOOD FOR JAPAN: Apology not acceptable.

LISTENING TO THE MARKET: Wal-Mart Ends “Green” Products and Sees Customers Return.

SCRUBDOWN to avert Wall Street showdown. I don't recall any Tea Party protests where the 'protestors' were forced to clean up after themselves.

HARRISBURG (PA) files for bankruptcy. If I had my way, every elected official in Harrisburg should be fired immediately, prevented from running again for any city elected office, and new elections held to replace those who were fired.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Predator in Chief. As useful as the Predator has been in the War on Terror, it's a double-edged weapon. We should all keep in mind that machines have no morals; people with a strong moral sense need to be in charge of them.

NEXT THEY'LL WANT Meals on Wheels to deliver to them. Limiting Meals on Wheels to poor seniors is obviously discriminatory.