HEH: Stick it to the man. I hope some Instapundit readers from Washington D.C. see this post.

Also check the comments. Best: "Cloth bags are for downtrodden losers."

WHAT UNEMPLOYMENT really looks like. I'm in the U4 category (0.5%).

RANDOM ACTS OF ACADEMIC KINDNESS. I was going to title this post 'World's Shortest Blog' but somewhat to my surprise....

NEW YORK POST: worst principal and school in the nation. At least, one can hope.

BUT, BUT ... I HAVE HEALTHCARE. No, you have ObamaCare.

US CHAMBER OF COMMERCE plans to spend millions to defeat Tea Party style candidates in 2014.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce says it will back “pro-business” candidates against Tea Party-styled opponents in this year’s elections, largely in response to conservative lawmakers fueling last year's partial government shutdown fight.

“In 2014, the chamber will work to protect and expand a pro-business majority in the House and advance our position and our influence in the Senate,” Chamber President and CEO Tom Donohue said Wednesday. “We will support candidates who want to work within the legislative process.”

Donohue, in his annual State of American Business speech, didn’t single out the Tea Party specifically but said afterward the chamber’s frustrations are with the movement’s extreme faction and politicians who have linked themselves to the Tea Party.

Backing candidates who support crony capitalism is not exactly the best way to win friends and influence conservatives. The Chamber of Commerce might want to reconsider those words lest they be forced to eat them.

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Boycott the boycotters, with contempt.

The Left is a target-rich environment for mockery.

ONCE AGAIN, Democrats vote to cut veterans’ benefits in order to enable fraud by illegal aliens.

Veterans are not reliable plantation workers....

A VIDEO WORTH WATCHING: Texas State Representative Scott Turner on the entitlement mentality. It's long, but worthy.

UPDATE: Turner announces candidacy for Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.

GOP SEES POLITICAL OPPORTUNITY rather than risk in opposing jobless benefits:

Congressional Republicans feel little political pressure to extend unemployment benefits ... confident that President Obama’s push for that additional aid would undercut his message that the economy is recovering and that his fiscal policies are working.

[T]he president's insistence on the dire need for additional jobless aid sends the message to voters that five years of his Democratic stewardship has failed to revive the economy.

Here's the proper argument to make in lieu of increasing jobless benefits or the minimum wage.

ONE WAY to crush ObamaCare. Emotionally satisfying, if nothing else.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON has thoughts on college reform.

He's right. With very few exceptions, today's university degree is basically worthless. Trade schools and MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are the wave of the future.

F--K THE MAGIC DRAGON: read this post for an explanation.

COULDN'T BE SAID BETTER: "They’re [journalists] not the Fourth Estate. They’re the Praetorian Guard."

MARK STEYN on the 'vigilance' vigilantes. Gist: I'm offended, therefore it must be your fault.

The vigilance vigilantes even have a name for it: microaggression. I have a name for them: hypersensitive assholes. And Day by Day has a solution.

OBAMACARE: "Sold on a lie, cloaked in deception and passed on a trick just this side of legal, this act is not merely an outlier but also an outlaw in the legislative history of our republic. It deserves no respect, gets none from the public and therefore can't last very long."