FROM HOPE & CHANGE TO HATE & FEAR: "Barack Obama came to Washington promising hope and change, but he’s worked to spread hate and fear. I can think of no greater bipartisan effort that all Americans should undertake this fall, than voting Obama and his administration out of office. For the sake of our country, and our freedom, we must do better."

BREAKING THE GOP cycle of capitulation. Voters must make it absolutely clear that the 'capitulators' will be gone from Congress in 2013.

WHO IS ANTI-SCIENCE? The skeptics or the believers?

"WHATEVER YOU MIGHT THINK is the purpose of higher education, there is a case to be made that public funding of college-level studies should bear some relation to the requirements of the national economy. In mainland China, where most higher education is paid for by the state, the government has found this case persuasive. They have recently announced that funding of college majors will in the future be determined by the graduate employment rates. Fields in which the employment rate for graduates falls below 60 percent for two consecutive years will have their state subsidies cut back or eliminated. It pains us to find ourselves in agreement with the Chinese Communist party on anything at all, but this new policy is surely a sound one. If applied in the U.S. , it would have two highly desirable side effects: one, there would be fewer unemployable graduates available to populate the "Occupy" movement, and two, the liberal professoriate would be furious."

From the dead tree edition of National Review (Dec. 31, 2011).

THE GRECIAN COLUMNS wouldn't fit in the convention center: Democrats move last night of convention to Charlotte stadium.

REX MURPHY: Thou must not question Big Environment. They don't want you to know who they're blackmailing ....

Linked from Instapundit.

YES, INDEED. Let's spread the wealth!

HOW ABOUT we try redistributing the ability to create wealth?

DIVORCE AGREEMENT. This has been floating around the interweb for a year or so now, but with the election fast approaching, it seems to get more and more relevant in describing the disconnect between liberals and conservatives.
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Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters, et al:

We have stuck together since the late 1950's for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course.

Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all, so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.

Here is a model separation agreement:

Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.

We don't like redistributive taxes so you can keep them.

You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.

Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military.

We'll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and you can go with wind, solar and biodiesel.

You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell. You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them.

We'll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart and Wall Street.

You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless, homeboys, hippies, druggies and illegal aliens.

We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO's and rednecks.

We'll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood

You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us.

You can have the peaceniks and war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help provide them security.

We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values.

You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness and Shirley McClain. You can also have the U.N. but we will no longer be paying the bill.

We'll keep the SUV's, pickup trucks and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Volt and Leaf you can find.

You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors.

We'll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a right.

We'll keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "The National Anthem."

I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute "Imagine", "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing", "Kum Ba Ya" or "We Are the World".

We'll practice trickle down economics and you can continue to give trickle up poverty your best shot.

Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name and our flag.

Would you agree to this?

CALIFORNIA COMMISSION approves regulations on … battery chargers. Pay $2 for the charger and save $1.19 in electricity -- makes sense to me.

GOOD IDEA: Putting Medical Records Into Patients' Hands. Patients should have more than access; we should have ownership.

BRIAN PRESTON summarizes the Republican debate in South Carolina.

IT TAKES A VILLAGE to fund the rich.

PUT 'EM ON HOLD.

ONE MAN RULE: Obama thumbs his nose at the Founders.