WHY BOTHER WITH A WIFE? Let your car nag you. The Wall Street Journal has more.

THE CASE for more guns. And rational gun control.

DON SURBER: Fight for the right to be left alone.

MARK STEYN on our royal Presidency: "Say what you like about a high-living, big-spending, bloated, decadent, parasitical, wastrel monarchy, but, compared to the citizen-executive of a republic of limited government, it’s a bargain."

Read it all.

HANG TOUGH, MR. SPEAKER: It’s time to stick it to the blue states.

FORMER VP DICK CHENEY takes aim at President Obama.

GIFTS FOR GEEKS: high tech gifts for Christmas.

EDWARD J. ERLER: Is the Constitution Colorblind?

EVEN OBAMA'S own (former) economic advisors recognize the need for entitlement reform. All the more reason for Speaker Boehner and the Republican House to 'hang tough' and insist that entitlement reform be part of any tax package.

UNSERIOUS PEOPLE. Tell us what you really think, Bill.

DAVID GREGORY? Who is David Gregory?

SO WHAT can I do at bedtime? Er, beside the obvious?

CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME, not in the office of a government bureaucrat.

A minor hobby of mine has been debunking the myth that conservative Christians are simply obsessed with gays and abortion while the Left cares for the poor (given the defensive nature of the Christian struggle against the sexual revolution, the reality is in fact the opposite). The reality, of course, is that religious conservatives — those who voted by the most lopsided margins against President Obama — are America’s most charitable citizens, and we give far more of our charitable dollars to help the poor than to fight the culture war.

Read it all; then write a check to the Salvation Army.

FREE STUFF: Yes, let's vote our way to prosperity.

TINY HOMES: when Republicans are in office, they're called 'trailers'.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Improving the election system.

Voter ID: "[T]he cost of implementing a nationwide voter ID program that ensures all eligible voters have access to the polling place would cost hundreds of millions dollars."

Huh? Showing a driver's license would cost hundreds of millions of dollars? So offset the cost by charging each voter $1 to cast a ballot. How many voters in the last election do you think didn't have a buck in his/her wallet?

Modernize voter registration: "[V]oters are automatically registered when they turn 18 and the registration follows them when they move and expires when they die."

Absolutely not. In fact, I would argue that voter registration should be made harder. Frankly, I don't want you voting unless you consider the voting important enough to have put some time and effort in it.

CHARITABLE DEDUCTIONS: You can support government welfare or private charity -- but not both. And I agree that private charity is a much more efficient delivery system than is government bureaucracy.

That said, however, I do support limiting charitable deductions for tax purposes, for the simple reason that I believe that large donors tend to organizations that are, shall we say, less charitable than political.

ROGER SIMON AND DR. HELEN have an interesting pair of posts on the value (or lack thereof) of conservative 'bitching and whining'. After reading both posts, it seems to me that both are arguing in favor of Andrew Brietbart's philosophy: punch back, twice as hard. I agree. Speak up! Strongly, loudly, and as necessary, rudely (or as Instapundit would put it, 'mock them'.)