GREGORY KANE: Fried chicken McCarthyism.

THE BURDEN OF GOVERNMENT: "[T]he American people do not want to be governed from the left, the right or the center. They want to govern themselves."

AMERICA is not ready for hospice care.

WELCOME TO BERZERKLEY BERKELEY. At least the Berzerklians are collected in one place and not bothering the rest of us.

IT'S NOW ABOUT 5 HOURS until the Mars Rover Curiousity lands (1:31 am EDT on Monday). Here's the place to be for continuous coverage of the landing.

TEXAS REPUBLICAN Senate candidate Ted Cruz on Fox News Sunday:


Impressive.

OBAMA, ROMNEY, AND THE U.S. R&D COMPLEX: a long-winded article that can be summed up in two words: competition works.

FIRST THERE WAS “you didn’t build that.”

Then came, “My exact quote was misrepresented… of course Americans build their own businesses.”

And today, “Okay, admit it, small biz owners — you couldn’t do it without me, could you?”

And the small business owners respond....

"YOU DIDN'T BUILT THAT!" Peggy Noonan has thoughts on Bill Clinton, the state of the Democrat Party, and the election.

HEY, LET'S SPEND SOME MONEY on things the military doesn't want. Gotta keep those political contributions rolling in.

NASA hopes to make the first flight of the reconfigured X-48C hybrid wing body demonstrator this week.

EVERYONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO VOTE -- except those who might vote Republican.

IT'S NOW ABOUT 12 HOURS until the Curiousity Mars Rover lands (1:31 am EDT on Monday). Here's the place to be for continuous coverage of the landing.

PIXIE DUST: an environmentally friendly solution for unlimited energy.

ON OBAMA'S SOLYNDRA. Honesty is not their strong suit:

One Solyndra investor, Brad Jones, even told then-White House United States National Economic Council Director Larry Summers:

One of our solar companies with revenues of less than $100 million (and not yet profitable) received a government loan of $580 million; while that is good for us, I can’t imagine it’s a good way for the government to use taxpayer money (I’d prefer my opinion about that specific company to be between us). Every administration seems to feel it knows better than the private markets how to allocate capital, and I’ve just never seen that be true.

Jones is right. Whatever role government has in building roads and bridges, administering the rule of law, and investing in basic scientific research, it should not be gambling taxpayers’ money by investing in specific companies. It’s bad enough that Obama had to learn this at our expense. It’s even worse that he doesn’t seem to have learned it at all.

Neither is intelligence.

THE LAST LAUGH: Guess who’s on a winning streak in endorsements? More importantly, Palin is focusing on down-ticket politicians, those who will become the 'big-ticket' politicos of Republican future. Sarah Palin (and the Tea Party) are changing the future -- and the Democrats and their mainstream friends in the Fourth Estate remain clueless.

Let's keep them that way.

TEA PARTY -- 100; mainstream media -- 0.

DEREK HUNTER: The Week in Liberal Stupid. If only it were just one week....

AWW ... poor babies got their widdle feelings hurt. May I have the effrontery to suggest that they sit down and shut up?

DEMOCRATS retract Adelson prostitution allegation. One would think that the Democrats would finally get the message that they're not going to be allowed to shoot off their collective mouth without someone 'firing back'. But nooo ... they haven't.

THE MARS ROVER CURIOSITY landing is scheduled for 1:31 AM EDT on August 6. The landing should be broadcast live here.