PRESIDENT OBAMA: 'The state of our Union is getting stronger'.

THE IDEA that our universe is embedded in a broader multidimensional space has captured the imagination of scientists and the general population alike. Of course. Who wouldn’t want to ‘jump ship’ to a parallel universe that didn’t contain President Obama?

CLEARLY THEY’RE NOT BEING PAID ENOUGH: Federal employees owe $1.03 billion in unpaid taxes.

THOMAS SOWELL on Newt Gincrich’s candidacy: “Sometimes caution can be carried to the point where it is dangerous. When the Super Bowl is on the line, you don't go with the quarterback who is least likely to throw an interception. You go with the one most likely to throw a touchdown pass.”

MYSTERY SURROUNDS Air Force's secretive X-37B space plane.

“MORE AMERICAN ADULTS lacked health insurance coverage last year than in any year since Gallup and Healthways started tracking it in 2008. The uninsured rate has been increasing since 2008, climbing to 17.1% in 2011.” Isn’t that what happens when people become unemployed?

GOVERNMENT: protecting the consumer from competition.

PREPARE YOURSELF for the State of the Union address tonight.



The GOP SOTU web site is here.

WHY WOULDN’T business owners ‘go Galt’? They are ... just last night my wife and I talked to a (now part-time employee) of a small excavation business that used to be located on property a quarter-mile or so from our house. The owner closed his business, sold all his equipment, leased his home, and moved back to southern Virginia to reopen as a much smaller operation with a few part-time employees. Keeping a bigger operation simply wasn’t worth the effort.

WHY SHOULD WE? Obama officials say we don’t trust government enough.

ON A CLEAR DAY you can use your smartphone.

HEH: “Chuck Norris is a columnist and impossible to kill.” More seriously, he endorses Newt Gingrich for President.

THOMAS SOWELL: “Intellectuals have all too often promoted these envy and resentment ideologies. There are both psychic and material rewards for the intelligentsia in doing so, even when the supposed beneficiaries of these ideologies end up worse off. When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”

WHITE DRESS SHIRTS are racist -- if worn by a Republican.

DEMOCRATS’ ENERGY POLICY: “reasonable profits” boards for energy companies. OK, let’s ask two questions: (1) Are “reasonable profits” the same for green energy companies as for conventional energy companies? And (2) if green energy companies fail to make “reasonable profits”, will they be subsidized so they do?

CRONY CAPITALISM: gouging citizens one regulation at a time.

TEN REASONS why we must vote for President Obama.

DAY BY DAY on the value of the mainstream media.