DON SURBER: T-Shirt of the day.


I'd really rather you didn't, but go ahead, reelect Obama.

While 80% of Americans believe that they are no better off today than they were four years ago, I'm one of the lucky 20%.

I don't have to worry about unemployment, I've already been laid off. I'll have already used up most - if not all - my social security and defined-benefit pensions before the baby-boom retirees push them to extinction. And my retirement savings are doing quite nicely, thanks to the Obama depression causing businesses to hold cash and sell off/close unprofitable and marginally profitable subsidiaries.

Thanks, Mr. President.

THE HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE has popped.

Moral of the story: buy a car; you won't be as deeply in debt and you'll have something with residual value.

BARACK OBAMA: a victim of affirmative action?

LITTLE BOXES: It's okay to be outside the box. The boxes are getting so damn constricting, it's better to be outside.

BREITBART IS HERE.


Sarah Palin: "Those three words express the instant connection many of us feel for our fallen friend. They express our identification with him, and our need to continue his fight for the good of our republic."

Another three words: Yes, we will.

BE COMPLIANT: let the government usurp your authority.

CAGEY: the new term for 'woefully incompetent'.

COMPLEX SOCIETIES need simple laws.

Big-government advocates will say that as society grows more complex, laws must multiply to keep up. The opposite is true. It is precisely because society is unfathomably complex that laws must be kept simple. No legislature can possibly prescribe rules for the complex network of uncountable transactions and acts of cooperation that take place every day. Not only is the knowledge that would be required to make such a regulatory regime work unavailable to the planners, it doesn't actually exist, because people don't know what they will want or do until they confront alternatives in the real world.

Not that big-government advocates won't keep trying.

IRAN AND OBAMA: "The track record of Barack Obama's pronouncements on a wide range of issues suggests that anything he says is a message written in sand, and easily blown away by the next political winds.... Churchill warned, 'Do not let us take the course of allowing events to drift along until it is too late.' But that is what expediency-minded politicians are always tempted to do."

THIN SKIN: What’s the matter with Soledad O’Brien?

Someone, somewhere (I can't find the link right now) suggested that readers/viewers/followers tweet back. I'm not a twit (my term for twitter user) but I have to admit the force is strong in the 'tweet back'suggestion.

THE EUROPEAN UNION won't back down on their avation carbon trading program.

My suggestion: Let Switzerland, which is right in the middle of the European Union (and not a member) build a humongous international airport and let the rest of Europe take (Obama's bullet) trains to the EU member countries. I would think there is a tidy profit to be made for Switzerland.

A RINGING DEFENSE OF STEPHEN CHU: He was for it before he was against it. Or something like that. Maybe. Or maybe not.

See if you can figure out what Weigel wrote.

COMMENT OF THE DAY: "Obama views himself as Leonardo Da Vinci, when he is actually Don Quixote."

In response to the President's assertion that Republicans who doubt my clean energy programs would have been Flat Earthers when Columbus sailed.

FULL SERVICE


I like to think the destination's the same in both cases.

BARACK OBAMA: Commander Lunatic-in-Chief.

MICHAEL REAGAN: Saving California. Victor Davis Hanson: Why bother?

COLLATERAL DAMAGE FROM 'REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS': "Abortion-rights advocates think the right to choose has conferred great benefits. Maybe so, but not on everyone."

Slippery slopes.