"IN OTHER WORDS, the state decides how much health insurance you can afford -- not you. Not exactly. The state will decide how much health care you must have; then fine you if you can't afford it.

HOME SWEET HOME.


Taken from the back 40.

WINNER: Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, released an economic plan yesterday, that would cut $1 trillion in spending and eliminate five cabinet-level departments, including Education, Energy, Commerce, Interior and Housing and Urban Development. The plan also cuts corporate and individual taxes.

On Fox's Special Report tonight, Charles Krauthammer said he thought it was a plan most Republicans (and presidential candidates) could support, but that it would be two-term plan. OK, fine; let's plan on giving our next President two full terms to implement the plan ....

POLITICAL CALCULATIONS: "Our analysis also confirms that it is the amount of federal spending, and not changes in federal tax rates, that is primarily responsible for the current unsustainable fiscal situation of the United States."

Here's the post. It's rich in information, so study it carefully.

BOB GOLDMAN: Happiness is now a job requirement.

BEING A CELEBRITY is not a license to be a jackass. No, it's a requirement.

OWL?


Nope. just a stump.

SOME PEOPLE HAVE GUARD DOGS; I have a guard cat.

WHAT MAKES A GREAT TEACHER? First, you have to love the children.

A BRIDGE TO NOWHERE: The American Prospect‘s Harold Meyerson hopes that Occupy Wall Street will help bridge the cultural differences between unions and “the long-haired kids on Wall Street.”

THE AUSTERITY MYTH: Federal spending is up 5% this year.

HIPPIE-CRITICAL: what a perfect description of the progressive wing of the Democrat party (aka Occupy Wall Street aka the 'buy me more' generation).

JOHN RANSOM: "The only fill-in-the blank we have to fill right now is J-O-B-S, jobs, jobs, jobs. And the biggest blank we have to fill ... is the job of President of the United States."

HEH. Fleas plagued with thieves.

PRESIDENT OBAMA'S APPROVAL INDEX isn't looking very good.


The dashed lines are best-fit second-order polynomial trend lines.

RANDOM THOUGHTS from Thomas Sowell:

Politicians can solve almost any problem -- usually by creating a bigger problem. But, so long as the voters are aware of the problem that the politicians have solved, and unaware of the bigger problems they have created, political "solutions" are a political success.

Read them all.

COLUMBUS WAS AN ENVIRONMENTALIST: he caused the Little Ice Age to prevent global warming.