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"As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given The Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, because America gave him the White House based on the same credentials."

~ Newt Gingrich

OCCUPY WALL STREET: November 11, 2011

HYPOCRISY ABOUNDS: We’ll Show You Ours If You Show Us Yours.

SO IF YOU ARE A CAREGIVER for a Medicaid recipient you are a defacto SEIU employee?

AMERICANS like Netanyahu better that Obama. I doubt Israel would consider a swap.

MEET THE GROWING NUMBER of Americans who want to move abroad. The only two things keeping me here are language and family. And language is the lesser of the two.

STUDY: Conservatives far more likely to exhibit antisocial personality traits.

Translation: Conservatives far more likely to be independent.

HELL HATH NO FURY like a nanny-stater scorned. What amuses me about nanny-staters is that cigarette smoking is bad; marijuana smoking is good. Consistency is not their forte.

Jeff Jacoby has more here.

WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL? All the apparatchiks have nice dachas in the country, where they can recover from their ceaseless labors on behalf of the workers and peasants.

THINNING THE HERD: OWS has its own lung disease (among others).

WAR ON TCHOTCHKES: Mark Steyn on Obama's and the SuperCommittee's deficit reduction fever.

Democrats on the supercommittee have proposed that the savings from the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan be used to pay for a new stimulus package, according to a summary of the $2.3 trillion plan obtained by The Hill.

Great! Now Obama can start/end more wars and save us zillions.

BERZERKELEY BERKELEY STUDENTS have a tantrum on finding out that they're 1%-ers.

THOMAS SOWELL on numbers games. I'm reminded of the folk wisdom that "statistics never lie, but liars use statistics."

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Obama Unbound. An unstable President for an unstable world. How reassuring ... especially given the signs of the time.

MOON STILL FOCUS FOR SCIENCE, BUSINESS. Maybe humans will colonize the moon yet.

THE LEAGUE OF ORDINARY GENTLEMEN on tribalism. The conclusion isn't pleasant for either side of the political divide.

BREWSTER ROCKIT joins the Presidential debates. Start here and click forward to here.