"CAN WE EVEN speak of the rule of law as a meaningful concept when we combine an explosive regulatory state with near-absolute prosecutorial discretion?”

UNEXPECTEDLY: ObamaCare "more like fascism".

LITTLE JOHNNY:

A teacher goes around her class asking each of the kids what do they need at home?

Joey says; "A computer." The teacher replies, "That would be very useful."

Kimmy says; "A new lawn mower" and gets a similar response.

Little Johnny pops up and says; "At my house we don't need nothing!"

The teacher asks him to think again carefully, as everybody needs something.

Little Johnny replies: "No, I'm sure. When Obama was re-elected, I remember my dad saying, 'Well, that's the last ... thing we needed.'"

From my email.

ARE GUNS THE PROBLEM? No, liberals are the problem.

YES. Is America an Idiocracy? Any remaining questions?

GUN CONTROL is a way of rubbing Middle America’s face in the fact that it doesn’t run things. Click through the links to read it all.

PAUL GREENBERG: Darby Rides Again. We need more William O. Darbys.

ALASKA SEN. LISA MURKOWSKI is "breaking with Republican leadership in the debate about raising the U.S. debt ceiling, saying the country has a duty to assure it can pay its bills." In other words, it's more important for Americans individually to go bankrupt than it is for the U.S. to quit overspending.

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Head Start finally gets tested -- and flunks. Unexpectedly, of course.

To be expected (equally of course): a demand by Democrats to pour even more money into it.

MICHAEL BARONE: Ivory-tower Obama can't abide views he doesn't share. That's only a surprise to someone who's been asleep for the last 4 years. We call them Democrats.

STATES WILL BE GIVEN EXTRA TIME to set up health insurance exchanges. The correct reading of this article is that the Obama administration will give itself extra time to coerce States into implementing ObamaCare.

ROGER KIMBALL: This metamorphosis will require a permit (which I can't have).

The sheer absurdity of Kimball's experience reminds me of a few months ago when my old computer suffered a massive heart attack. I managed to revive it by reinstalling the original Microsoft XP operating system from the CD. Then I got online to restore all the service packs, patches, and upgrades that had accumulated over the years only to be informed by Microsoft that I needed Internet Explorer 8 to download the service packs. Original XP came with Internet Explorer 6, so I tried to download Internet Explorer 6 from Microsoft. Sorry, it said, you can't upgrade Internet Explorer 6 to Internet Explorer 8 without Service Pack 1, which can't be downloaded with Internet Explorer 6.

I gave up and bought a new computer.

A BLOW to ObamaCare. A stealth backdoor to single-payer healthcare stomped out. Good.

ALLEN WEST joins PJ Media. Congratulations, sir.

AMERICA: Go meddle in someone else's business.

IF ONLY: Time for Republicans and Democrats to get a divorce? For the children, of course....

ANTHROPOMORPHIC NOUNS (from my email):

We are all familiar with a herd of cows, a flock of chickens, a school of fish, and a gaggle of geese.

However, less widely known is a pride of lions, a murder of crows (as well as their cousins the rooks and ravens), an exaltation of doves and, presumably because they look so wise, a parliament of owls.

Now consider a group of baboons. Baboons are the loudest, most dangerous, most obnoxious,
most viciously aggressive and least intelligent of all primates. And what is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons? Believe it or not... a congress!

A CONGRESS OF BABOONS! That pretty much explains the things that come out of Washington....

You just can’t make this stuff up.

LOUISANA GOV. BOBBY JINDAL: Eliminate income and corporate taxes. It's a bold move, and one almost certain to be fought on the grounds that it's regressive. But I suspect that if it is approved, much to the surprise of the 'experts', Louisana will prosper.

Is Virginia Gov. McDonnell following Gov. Jindal's footsteps?