OBAMA ON SPENDING CONTROL: “[I]f you can encourage your readers to have their young children write Obama about their angst regarding the national debt, he will publish 23 ways to address federal spending.” I'm sure they'll be as effective as his gun control orders....

GOOD QUESTION:

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HE'S A UNITER: “If whites and minorities were once on different economic and social tracks, they sure aren’t anymore. Downward mobility is now a shared American experience.”

NEWT GINGRICH: Picking fights the Republicans can win.

"OUR PRESIDENT is taking policy advice from 8 year olds now. Things will likely improve with their superior maturity and experience."

BAN FIREARMS NOW: Sixty percent of high school and college students say they plan on owning guns at a later stage in life. Read the comments.

THE TIPPING POINT has been reached:

[Mitt] Romney lost [the 2012 Presidential election] because the conservative virtues – the traditional American virtues – of liberty, hard work, free enterprise, private initiative and aspirations to moral greatness – no longer inspire or animate a majority of the electorate. The notion of the “Reagan Democrat” is one cliché that should be permanently retired.

Ronald Reagan himself could not win an election in today’s America.

The simplest reason why Romney lost was because it is impossible to compete against free stuff.

Taking back America is, I'm afraid, going to be a slow, state-by-state effort using the Tenth Amendment.

MARK TAPSCOTT: Confessions of a gun-loving journalist. Since he lives in Maryland, I wonder how long it will be until his guns are taken away....

REVEALED: the massive new liberal plan to remake American politics.

Note that their three big goals are for all practical purposes essentially ballot-stuffing initiatives. Democracy is not for the little people.

INVESTMENT THOUGHTS for Wile E. Coyote. No matter how hard you try, with Obama and Congress at they helm, you're going to wind up "burnt to a crisp, squashed flat or at the bottom of a canyon."

TEXAS GOV. RICK PERRY responds to Obama’s gun control announcement.

TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH: Obama's new executive orders on gun control. I have to agree with the commenters: "half as well at twice the cost" dramatically overestimates the Administration's competence.

SMALL BALL: Why our fiscal debates amount to nothing.

The left is trying to avoid a fundamental transformation of the structure of our entitlement programs, since liberals believe the structure of those programs is key to their legitimacy and purpose, and so key to sustaining a just society.

The right is trying to avoid a fundamental transformation of the relationship of government and society in American life, since conservatives believe the structure of that relationship is essential to American freedom and prosperity.

The left would rather see American life altered (with a significantly larger government, a smaller and less active civil society, and a more consolidated but less dynamic economy) than see our welfare-state institutions reformed.

The right would rather see our entitlement system altered (with lumbering universal entitlement programs turned into means-tested and market-based safety-net systems for the elderly and the poor) than see the character of our society transformed.

My sense is that the next American revolution has begun; it will be fought in the towns, cities, and states as Americans decline to be controlled by activist governments. Here are some examples.

GOP SHOULD BECOME the party of the 'parenting' class.

[C]onservatives should concentrate on the anxieties of the parenting class because if they are not addressed in ways that take heed of both the significance of traditional values and the importance of free-market, small-government principles, they will eventually be addressed in ways that undercut both.

Well, yeah, it would be nice to have some adults in charge for a change.

A SHORT ESSAY on Western intellectualism. Includes this nugget: "Your right to speak [doesn't] include a right to be taken seriously."

LIBERALS pay more here.

IF YOU CAN'T WIN ON GUN CONTROL, change the name to gun safety.

LOOK! a squirrel!

NOT QUITE: Workers are raiding their own funds.

"WE'RE GOING TO LOOK BACK AT THIS DECADE as the dawn of the commercial space age. ... The energy we see now -- the economic motivation to go into space -- we haven't seen that before."

HEH. “The people who are doing the most to reduce emissions, by biking or taking the bus, were the people who experienced the highest levels of exposure to pollutants.”

NO. WITH OBAMACARE, we have an obligation to die.

REAGAN WAS THE 'GREAT COMMUNICATOR'; Obama is the 'Great Divider'.

A PREVIEW of likely gun control recommendations. Some of the recommendations make sense, like improved background checks, but only if there are explicit legal procedures for adjudication of rejections. Closing the 'gun show loophole' could be accomplished by requiring the show sponsor to maintain a link to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System for the duration of the show, but true private sales (from me to my neighbor, for example) are realistically uncheckable.

Banning 'assault weapons' and 'high capacity magazines' is just plain silly. There's no essential difference between an 'assault' rifle and the Remington semi-automatic .22 I owned as a teenager 50+ years ago. My .22 also had a 'high capacity' (15-round tubular) magazine ... 50 years ago!

With handguns, magazine capacity is essentially irrelevant, since even someone as unpracticed as I can swap an empty magazine for a full one in less than a second (which I do routinely at the gun range).

I can live with the data/coordination/enforcement proposals if -- and it's a big if -- gun owner privacy were respected and guaranteed in law. For example, by jailing the owners and employees of the Journal-News, razing their building, and salting the earth underneath.

MOCKERY IS THE BEST MEDICINE: targeting the gun control hypocrites.



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