LIBERALISM: What's mine is mine, what's yours is ours mine.

OBAMA'S HALF-BROTHER, ANYONE? Charity begins with other people’s wallets.

JOHN RANSOM: "What the world needs now is a good, judicious measure of normality from government. They need to pick up the trash, repair the streets, police the neighborhoods and put out fires -- not start them."

Read it all.

NEWS SPEAK: "[I]t makes the folks at AP feel doubleplusungood when they see badspeak." (Im)precisely (in)accurate.

JEFF JACOBY: The essence of Thatcherism.

TAXES ARE FOR COMMONERS, not the ruling class.

MY ONLY SURPRISE about this is wondering why anyone would waste time and perfectly good money to listen to his deranged rants.

WELCOME TO CYPRUS: Obama's budget targets our retirement savings.

PROGRESSIVE HUBRIS AND ARROGANCE. They cannot countenance the idea that Joe and Josephine Sixpack might be smarter than they are.

HEH. Wisconsin union membership plunging as workers exercise new rights. The right to walk away.

OBAMACARE WON'T WORK. Now what? The only thing missing from this post is the recognition that some of us (actually many of us, I suspect) would welcome a return to the traditional catastrophic-care insurance model of health care.

GUN CONTROL DEBATE to begin in the Senate. Although the only gun control legislation that has even a remote chance of passage is the Manchin-Toomey compromise on background checks, I have advised my Senators (probably futilely) to vote against. Here's why:

Background checks currently apply only to transactions handled by the country's 55,000 licensed gun dealers. Advocates of expanding the system say too many sales – the exact proportion is unknown – escape the checks, which are supposed to keep weapons from going to criminals, the seriously mentally ill, and others.

The fact is that the efficacy of expanding background checks is unknown because the number of unchecked sales is unknown (the 40% number bandied about is patently absurd) and we do know that background checks -- even expanded background checks -- would not have stopped even one of the recent mass shooting.

BLOOMBERG: The Myth of the Falling Bridge.

FACTS DON'T MATTER: If it reinforces my beliefs it must be 'science'. A small recognition that 'social science' is an oxymoron.