WHAT TO LOOK FORWARD TO as the Republican convention convenes.

HEH: 'Republican Women for Obama' are Democrats.

THE TEST OF FIRE: the Catholic church fights back.

HOW TO GET RICH QUICK:

UNEMPLOYMENT: "We Tried Our Plan, and It Worked...."

The only problem for President Obama and his economic team is that too few Americans chose to exit the U.S. civilian labor force as they desired. In order to have achieved their goals, they would have needed to remove an additional 2% of the U.S. working age population from the ranks of the nation's civilian labor force.

That would be on top of the 2% of the U.S. working age population that they successfully removed from the U.S. work force since January 2009. With the current civilian labor force participation rate standing at 63.7%, that additional 2% reduction in the number of Americans in the civilian labor force works out to be roughly an additional 4.9 million people.

What can we say? Apparently, the President and his team have decided that culling the U.S. work force is a lot easier for them to do than generating real job-creating economic growth.

Well, almost worked. Those obstinate Americans kept looking for work rather than drop out of the workforce altogether as Obama expected them to.

DIMOCRATS KAN'T SPEL:


Seen flying over the Romney/Ryan rally in Ohio (or is it Oiho?)

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: Obama’s Solar Panel Tariffs Threaten To Destroy An American Business. I doubt Romney's position on China trade is any better, but his business acumen may be enough for him to think through the consequences.

BREAKING NEWS: Astronaut Neil Armstrong dies at age 82.

UPDATE: the Fox News story is here.

When Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon in 1969, my wife and I were newly married, living in Waianae, Hawaii. We watched the landing in our living room on a Sony MicroTV (4-1/2 inch diagonal screen) which I had bought years earlier while I was working in Okinawa. I still have the TV, although it hasn't worked in years.

DAVID KOCH: A civic duty.

SKUNK WORKS ENGINEERS develop a laser-powered drone aircraft. I was lucky enough to be able to work at the Skunk Works for several years.

CHANGE? Here's Obama's energy plan from August 2008.

REPUBLICAN CONVENTION may not mean 'tea' time.


The media (and liberals generally) are missing the point. Unlike Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party is not just a bunch of people dressing in funny clothes protesting in the streets in cities across America, it is a serious, long-term, low profile effort to change the direction of America.

“The purpose is to legally nominate their candidate,” Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, told FoxNews.com. “Tea Party Patriots are far more concerned about what laws are going to be passed than what they’re doing at a party in Florida and Charlotte.”

“As long as our values are represented, we are making an effect. What we will be happy about is when bills are signed into law that repeal the president’s health care law, and when the budget is balanced and when we’re on the road to recovery,” she said. “The convention is just a very small step along the way.”

Exactly.

AID AND ABET: How the networks help the Democrats’ distraction campaign.

TECHNOLOGY: Reading and Writing a Book with DNA.

I HAD THE MISFORTUNE to listen to President Obama's weekly address to the nation this morning. It was a campaign speech, nothing more. Obama has managed to demean every symbol of the presidency in his unending quest for power.

SWEAT MORE FOR GAIA.

THE HOPE & THE CHANGE: coming soon to the Republican convention. It is a documentary of 2008 Obama voters who have since changed their minds and will vote for Romney in 2012. I saw an excerpt on Hannity last night. The most powerful moment was when one of the voters said of Liberals "they keep telling us what we think."

Here's an excerpt from the show.