INSTAPUNDIT: The importance of bigger guns and more bullets. Shot placement helps.

DEMOCRATS LOOK for up to $1 trillion in new revenues. Good luck with that. I favor tax reform, but only if it is revenue neutral given that the Democrats already have their tax hikes on the 'rich'.

A WASTED LIFE.

POST-ELECTION TRAUMA: Crushed unicorn dreams.

BARACK OBAMA: "We don't have a spending problem." Oh, really?

GUNS AND POSES: America demands equality 'juice' before the law.

AND IF STUPIDITY WERE A FELONY, Democrats couldn't vote.

OH, MY: Helicopter searching for radiation in nation's capital.

Bring on the conspiracy theorists (where's Rosie O'Donnell when you need her?).

UNEXPECTEDLY: Social Security -- It's Worse Than You Think. But I'll get mine. I may be the last one, but I'll get mine.

STAR PARKER: Detached From Reality.

“When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.”

Read the rest.

INSTAPUNDIT: "[A] Carter rerun is the best-case scenario, and it’s now looking implausibly optimistic."

I FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE anyone would consider letting this boob into the Senate, even temporarily, but ... it's Massachusetts.

THE REVERSE MIDAS TOUCH OF GOVERNMENT:

HERE WE GO AGAIN: Tax Increases for Everyone!

UNEXPECTEDLY: Health Insurers Raise Some Rates by Double Digits.

Read the comments. I'm somewhat surprised to see the number of commenters observing that our current healthcare system is 'too big, monopolistic, with no incentive to hold down costs' and then in the next breath demanding single-payer (government) healthcare.

There was at least one astute observation that "making something free makes it even more expensive."