OH, REALLY? "I think the majority of us feel strongly — even the majority of gun owners feel strongly — that we need to make some sacrifice[s] to our freedoms, if that’s the way to put it. We need to make some sacrifices to what we might want to have, in order to safeguard our children."

Not in my neck of the woods, James. We have guns to protect our families.

TIME FOR SOME POLITICAL COURAGE. After all, it’s for the children.

Put some of the GOP women out on the steps surrounded by moms and kids who protected themselves from scumbag criminals through the magic of firearms. Ask why the liberals are willing to sacrifice women to be raped, gays to be bashed, and minorities to be intimidated, all in order to disarm law-abiding citizens. Maybe some of the kids can even read their letters talking about how thankful they are that Mommy was able to use her Glock to keep her family from being murdered by that thug the liberal judge released on a technicality.

Punch back - and always remember that a sword has two edges.

RISK FACTOR: Is your identity worth stealing (third item)?

Not mine.

DEAR DEMOCRATS: You own Obama and everything his presidency has wrought. Please stop comparing him to successful Republicans.

UNEXPECTEDLY: The NRA has a higher approval rating than the president because it's in sync with Americans' beliefs.

NEVILLE (CHAMBERLAIN) AGAIN: Obama Promises ‘Peace in Our Time’. And as far as the Obama/FDR comparisons go, wasn't Roosevelt the President when World War II began?

I CAN SEE 2014 from that gun show.

RADIO TALK SHOW HOST MARK LEVIN painted a stark picture of the reality facing the country – the rise of tyranny – but he also offered hope in one word: “fight.”

ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS: Obama's Great Health Leap Forward Backward. Alert reader #2 has it exactly right: "they’ve taken the highest paid person in the department and turned him/her into a data entry clerk”.

Recalling my own career, as soon as PCs (and PowerPoint) became prevalent in the workplace, the artists were laid off and the engineers ceased doing engineering and became responsible for their own art. It's much easier to do engineering art than engineering design, so it takes very little imagination to figure out what happened ... and what will happen to medicine.

DEEP SEA DIVING: I've known about living undersea for quite a while, but at a thousand feet?

Linked from Instapundit.

CONSTITUTION? What Constitution? Welcome to Obama's second term.

HILLARY CLINTON: What difference does it make? Republicans, why weren't those follow-up questions asked?

GOLFER PHIL MICKELSON and the Laffer curve. Will California learn anything if when he leaves? Unlikely.

SUSAN BROWN: Obama's Definition of 'Liberty'. More succinctly, "You have the liberty to do whatever I demand."

ABOUT TIME: A New Fleet Of Robot Asteroid Prospectors Will Launch By 2015.

My grandchildren will certainly live to see the first space colonization; my children might.

MORE ON OBAMA'S INAUGURATION ADDRESS: long on audacity, short on hope. But plenty of dope.

UNEXPECTEDLY: State Department delays Keystone pipeline decision.

NAKED PARTISANSHIP.