MORNING EXAMINER: Romney’s ongoing war against free stuff.

THOMAS SOWELL: 2016, a powerful movie.

EMMETT TYRRELL: Obama is casting his net for the moron vote. It's conceivable there are enough to re-elect him.

THE WASHINGTON POST'S EZRA KLEIN INTERVIEWS Chris Van Hollen (D) and Paul Ryan (R) on their respective programs for Medicare/Medicaid. It's clear that the Democrat plan is government-centric; the Republican plan is patient-centric. For that point alone, I strongly favor the Republican plan.

That said, however, even the Republican plan disappoints because even it limits the choice of health insurance options from which I can select.

CLIMATEGATE 'SCHOLAR' gets his little feelings hurt.

ALTHOUSE: Democrat (who thinks he's God) disapproves of Republicans.

IEEE SPECTRUM: It's no longer Moore's Law for technology development.

ROB PORTMAN: The Regulatory Cliff Is Nearly as Steep as the Fiscal One. Nearly as steep? I'd suggest it's far steeper.

MODERN ENVIRONMENTALISM: 'helping' the environment while hurting the poor.

RIGHT IDEA, wrong solution. The answer isn't to throw more tax money into basic research; it's to remove the government disincentives from private enterprise investing in basic research.

THE 57TH STATE: OIHO. I wonder how many electoral votes 'Oiho' has....

EDJUMAKATION has come to this. Explain to my why we should continue to throw tax money at K-12 public education when this kind of crap is the result.

SPACE TECHNOLOGY: the Masten Xombie practices powered precision descent and landing.

HEH: Will this take the edge off the Obama campaign's calls for Romney to release more tax returns?

Link from Instapundit.

JOINT CHIEFS CHAIRMAN GEN. MARTIN DEMPSEY: Military Must Be 'Apolitical'.

Hmm. The Obama admiistration apparently agrees with Gen. Dempsey that the active military must be 'apolitical'; since 2008, it has done an excellent job of discouraging military voters.

Irrespective of whether or not the active military should be apolitical, Gen. Dempsey misses an essential point: the members of the Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund are all ex-military. To say they can't speak out based in part on specialized knowledge they acquired while in the military is absurd.

‘I’VE STUDIED LIBERALS Like Jane Goodall Studies her Chimps.’ There's a difference between liberals and chimps?