SORRY, UNIONS: the 'right to freeload' is a myth.

IRS ENDS ITS MIGRATION FLOW DATA PROGRAM, one of the few data sets in existence showing where Americans are moving to and from each year. It's "as if the federal government cancelled elections and the counting of actual votes and told us to use opinion polls to pick our leaders instead."

Can't have the little people make their own informed choices....

DOES OBAMA want to go over the fiscal cliff? Well, yes:

Obama prefers a more equal income distribution. The Depression of the 1930s did a great job of increasing economic equality.

Remember: it's all about control.

JUST A REMINDER: People don't stop killers. People with guns do. Twenty innocent children were killed in an elementary school classroom this morning. What if just one of the adults in the room had been armed?

GUN RIGHTS find a new home in Illinois.

REPUBLICANS HAVE THE RIGHT.

Democrats have the left ... and uppercuts ....

HARRY BELAFONTE should be shipped (one way) to a third-world dictatorship.

THE NILE isn't just a river in Egypt.

INTERESTING: skateboarding video shot from a camera-equipped hexacopter.

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION STIMULUS: White House Sees Fiscal Cliff Deal As Last, Best Hope.

"Most of what you're talking about -- it's keeping your foot where it is on the accelerator, which makes a lot of sense if you are thinking about the underlying economy," said Jared Bernstein, Vice President Joe Biden's former top economist and a leading proponent of addition stimulus. "You don't want to take your foot off right now."

Right. If we just accelerate, maybe we can make it to the other side of the fiscal Grand Canyon.

CAN, MEET ROAD: the 'doc fix' economy. The fiscal cliff is just the 'doc fix' writ large -- and there's every expectation that the outcome will be the same.

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: taxing the poor. Are they really unintended? Or is it government cheese?

BIG GOVERNMENT AND BLACK BOXES: It isn't about privacy; it's really about control.

GLENN REYNOLDS: Where big GOP bucks could matter. Okay, I tend to agree that the way to get to the 'low information' voter (male or female) is through the popular soft media....

But I'd really rather just prevent them from voting in the first place. All Americans have a right to vote -- but they also have an obligation to exercise that right responsibly. The irresponsible should be encouraged to inform themselves; they should not be encouraged to vote.

JEFF JACOBY: freedom from (union) compulsion.

OPTION C: another alternative to the fiscal cliff. There are two important points for Republicans: (1) whatever the outcome of the fiscal cliff, the Democrats must own any tax rate increases, and (2) the Republicans must hold the Democrats' feet to the fire when they start looking for loopholes when their allies start squawking.

HOW TO TELL if you're a sanctimonious narcissistic liberal.

AMERICANS LIVING LONGER despite unhealthier habits. Contradictory? I suspect not; the apparent contradiction is more likely result of the measures of 'healthiness' being employed.

YES, marriage is best left to churches.

IRONY

The Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is proud to be distributing this year the greatest amount of free meals and food stamps ever, to 46 million people.

Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, asks us to "Please Do Not Feed the Animals." Their stated reason for the policy is because "The animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves...."

This ends today's lesson.

From my email.

TECHWISE CONVERSATIONS; or why I dislike Windows 8.

A NEW MEDICARE BENEFIT:

You're a sick senior citizen and the government says there is no nursing home available for you. So what do you do? Our plan gives anyone 65 years or older a gun and four bullets. You are allowed to shoot four politicians. Of course, this means you will be sent to prison where you will get three meals a day, a roof over your head, central heating, air conditioning and all the health care you need!

Need new teeth? No problem. Need glasses? That's great. Need a new hip, knees, kidney, lungs or heart? They're all covered. As an added bonus, your kids can come and visit you as often as they do now. And who will be paying for all of this? It's the same government that just told you that they cannot afford for you to go into a home.

And you can get rid of four useless politicians while you are at it. Plus, because you are a prisoner, you don't have to pay any income taxes anymore.

The downside is that range time isn't covered....