SHOULD HAPPINESS guide public policy?

Why am I reminded of Brave New World? Soma, perhaps?

LIFE IN CHICAGO. The Third World is looking better and better.

PEGGY NOONAN: on the DNC's 'soft extremism'.

There was the relentless emphasis on Government as Community, as the thing that gives us spirit and makes us whole. But government isn't what you love if you're American, America is what you love. Government is what you have, need and hire. Its most essential duties—especially when it is bankrupt—involve defending rights and safety, not imposing views and values.

Which, I think, has -- or will -- turn the American voters off.

THAT AUGUST JOBS REPORT.

OBAMACARE IN A SINGLE SENTENCE:



Two sentences, actually.

This definition of 'disappointment' is almost as good.

DEFINING HOPE DOWN: Obama defends his record. As the most interesting man in America?

MY VIEW of the Democrat National Convention:

WHY NOT? Unless they paid from their expense accounts. We all know they're in the tank for Obama.

OBAMA'S DNC ACCEPTANCE SPEECH: "It was the oratory equivalent of a form letter signed by auto-pen."

VISIBLE FROM SPACE: Curiosity leaves tire tracks on Mars.

HEH: Nope, he's in the same boat as the rest of us.

CLIMATE CHANGE SO SERIOUS Democrats mention it once in over 80 speeches over two days.

YEAH, RIGHT: Government gives 'superior benefits' compared to private charity. Especially when it's with other people's money....

It's a perfect example of the Democrats' 'we all belong to government' philosophy.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Tortise and the Hare. "Barring a real recovery or a sudden war, the steady, plodding Romney tortoise is ever so slowly winning the race against the flashier -- surging, yet always fading -- Obama hare."

UNDERSTANDING OBAMANOMICS.

VICTORY: Health insurance premiums for NC college students rise 51% under ObamaCare.

WITH SMARTPHONES LIKE THIS, why do we need people?