NUTROOTS NETROOTS NATION demoralized?

SUMMER VACATION can't come too soon.

ACTUALLY IT'S THE WRONG HEADLINE: "Wisconsin protesters coping with recall results in their own special way." It should have read "Wisconsin protesters coping with recall results in their own special needs way."

HE COULD BE PRESIDENT NOW if he wanted to be.

He doesn't. He wants to be King.

JENNIFER RUBIN: No wonder Bill Clinton is on a rampage through Obama's china shop.

THEY'LL NEVER LEARN: Machinists file complaints of unfair labor practices against Lockheed Martin.

KRAUTHAMMER: What Wisconsin means.

DIONNE: Wisconsin's dangerous result.

Reality versus "reality."

THE LATEST in the Bourne film series: The Bourne Obama Sanction.

BUT, BUT, BUT ... fuel efficiency can't be allowed to affect our tax income. (Damn those self-inflicted wounds.)

THE BRADLEY EFFECT: Polls don't necessarily reflect reality.

The silent majority of Wisconsin voters didn’t want to admit to nosy pollsters and anyone else that might be listening that they were opposed to runaway unions, runaway spending, or the Democratic administration. They just wanted to cast their votes. And they did.

I think the Democrats may have set themselves up for this by openly denigrating anyone who disagrees with them. For the disaffected, the secret ballot is a powerful weapon.

WINNING the Democrats' 'shiny object' distraction contest.

NYT BOMBSHELL: Some of Romney’s neighbors don’t like him much. Poor babies.

WHO'S MIDDLE CLASS? "Democrats have claimed there’s a GOP ‘war’ on the middle class. But President Obama and other liberals have been assaulting the values of Middle America for years."

Excellent point: what is the middle class? Years and years ago, when I was an instructor at Penn State, an older professor I shared an office with explained how he knew his family was middle class: when buying anything, from a bicycle for him to a car for themselves, they never bought the high end, never bought the cheapest, always bought the mid-priced. I'll never forget his definition

Middle class is a state of mind; not a pay stub.

ZOMBIE: Obama's fundraiser in the failed state of California (photo essay).

Note that the never-do-wells always tend to congregate where there are enough of the ego-stroking 'super-rich' to support them.

ANDREW KLAVAN: We wished to have an orange for a head.

Consider that study after study shows that faith, self-reliance, and chastity make human beings happier and healthier. Yet not only do we abandon these behaviors individually out of personal folly and weakness; we dismantle them as a society by intention and design, preaching and modeling lifestyles to our young that are almost guaranteed to make them sad and sick and dependent. Consider that the earth, as if beneficent, has poured millions of years’ worth of energy into the fossils of its dead creatures, presenting us with the Promethean gift of fuels that elevate us beyond the imaginations of our ancestors. Our response? We nurture a superstitious dread of oil and coal and promulgate pseudoscientific disaster scenarios meant to teach panic and to quench the very fire of our freedom. Or consider, finally, that we were born into the freest, strongest, and wealthiest nation that mankind has ever known—and elected as our president a man who promised to “fundamentally transform” it.

Well, we got what we wished for (read it all for the joke).

THE NIGHT "the campaign to save America" began.

FROM HOPE AND CHANGE to Fear and Smear.

ENTERPRISE reaches its final destination.

More photos here.

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