SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE chairman Sen. Max Baucus: “I don’t think you want me to waste my time to read every page of the health care bill. . . We hire experts.”

Every time I hear the word 'expert', I'm reminded of the classic definition: 'ex' as in 'has-been' and 'spurt' as in 'drip under pressure'.

HEH. GOP GIVES ELIZABETH WARREN an Ancestry.com account for her birthday.

GOVERNMENT: getting nothing for something -- and fined for not getting nothing! Well done (I think).

OH, DANG! The Social Security trust fund will start going bankrupt in 2013. And I just started.

SMOKING BANS are for the little people. Linked from Instapundit.

PROPER GUN CONTROL: Phoenix boy, 14, shoots armed intruder while watching three younger siblings. "[T]the suspect did not get a shot off."

I hope the burglar fell outside the house so as not to mess up the entry floor.

THE WASHINGTON POST retains its credential as an Obama apologist.

I've given up on the Post and canceled my daily subscription. I'll keep the weekend subscription (for a while); the Post's endorsements are useful in deciding who to vote against.

IS POVERTY THE CAUSE OF VIOLENCE, or is violence the cause of poverty? My vote is for the latter.

CLOSE, BUT NO CIGAR: Astronomers Catch Video of "Near-Miss" Asteroid.

MARK STEYN: Obama, Holder have ‘blithe contempt’ for US system of checks and balances.

NANCY PELOSI HIT BY CLUE BAT: If mandate ruled unconstitutional, rest of health law won’t work.

Here's a question from me: Isn't single-payer (National Health Care) also a mandate to purchase (through taxes) something just because I breathe?

KEYSTONE PIPELINE: Death by a thousand studies. There ought to be a legal limit to the number of roadblocks the environmentalists can throw up. One challenge and that's it; you're out of the game. Also implement loser pays.

#OBAMAFUNDRAISINGIDEAS: My personal favorite is #10; it's the one most consistent with his philosophy of government.

MICHELLE MALKIN: The Coming DNC Disaster.

OBAMA'S TRUTHINESS: "It's becoming increasingly clear that President Obama is not burdened with too heavy a commitment to honesty." How does that statement go? The reason truth is put on a pedestal is so that we won't run into it....

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