PART-TIME CONGRESS: Rep. Tim Johnson (R-IL) will introduce the Citizen Legislators Act next week. I'd be willing to grant them full-time pay, requiring them to spend at least 5 business days each month meeting with their constituents and requiring them to stay out of Washington except on days the Legislature is in session.

INSTAPUNDIT: John Galt was unavailable for comment.

John Galt replies: I am indeed one of the one million 'vanished workers' who has given up all hope of returning to the workplace. Fortunately I can afford to be non-employed, though it was neither by intention or desire that I became so.

TWITTER WAR: RNC Chairman Reince Priebus wins. Not that it was particularly difficult.

JOE HICKS: Playing the race card again (registration required; it's free).

PAUL GREENBERG: Occupy Everything!

AND YOU THOUGHT voter fraud couldn't happen. Want to rethink your objections to requiring photo ID to vote?

ANOTHER IRANIAN NUCLEAR SCIENTIST goes "boom."

"Witness the firepower of a fully armed and operational blog!”

MARIJUANA, YES; cigarettes, no.

FAR OUT! New Deep Space Mission Ideas Draw NASA's Eye.

MARYBETH HICKS: New Hampshire Learns Lesson in Parental Rights. Parents can now object to material being taught in school and are further empowered them to find and pay for suitable, educationally acceptable alternatives to the curricula being foisted on their children. In objecting to the law, Gov. John Lynch is reported to have said:

For example, under this bill, parents could object to a teacher’s plan to teach the history of France or the history of the civil or women’s rights movements. The intrinsic value of education is exposing students to new ideas and critical thinking. This legislation encourages teachers to go the lowest common denominator in selecting material, in order to avoid ‘objections’ and the disruption it may cause their classrooms.

I might be more supportive of Lynch's position if the education establishment could convince me that 'critical thinking' meant something other than 'critical of everything traditional thinking'.

JOBS FOR ADULTS ONLY. If you're a teen or young adult, plan on keeping your room in your parents' house.

A WEALTH TAX? So now if I scrimp and save over a lifetime of working and just happen to find myself "wealthy" I get taxed again? This is nothing more than a death tax without the prerequisite of death.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY proposes offering a class in Occupy Wall Street. "I suppose the class will teach people how to camp out in a city park. Under a continuation of the Obama administration, this might actually become a good life skill."

Read the rest.

IRAN: they can threaten us, but cannot -- or will not -- protect their own citizens.

IS HE FINALLY DOING SOMETHING RIGHT? President Obama will reveal a new proposal to consolidate federal agencies.

JOHN RANSOM: Obama Can’t See Unemployed from Martha’s Vineyard.

IN D.C. NO LESS: Occupy protesters no longer welcome.

THE FIRST REAL SPACEPLANE: an airplane mission for Titan.

HISTORY LESSON FOR THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: "If you want redistribution, you'd better first produce growth."

BLIND TO THEIR LIBERAL BIASES:

Indeed, many liberals don't even view themselves as liberals. Rather, they are reality- and fact-based creatures. Only conservatives allow their biases to taint their objectivity. Liberals will admit that some conservatives are rational, but to be both rational and conservative, they must be evil. They know the policies they support are wrong, objectively, but they choose to do so anyway -- or something like that.

Liberal dogma: if you're rational and conservative, you must be evil.