MEDICAL CENTER won't let patients watch Fox News. Remove the facility's federal funding and see how fast it changes its mind.

RANDOM THOUGHT from the retirement lane. Progressives and liberals seem to believe "common sense" is a extreme right-wing propaganda tool.

COMMON SENSE: 'Disparate impact' doctrine often hurts those it's intended to help.

BLOG LEFT: Wendy Davis Makes a Clarification on 20-Week Abortion Ban. Read this post, then ask yourself "Do I have the faintest idea of what she thought she said?"

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, FOLKS. Let's move along now.

In the end, protests won't solve what ails environmentalism. All over the world, the environmental agenda is in retreat.

Carbon caps have had little impact on emissions. The Kyoto framework has long since been abandoned. Renewables mandates have proved costly as innovation policy and ineffectual as climate policy.

In this sense, the turn toward Keystone and now divestment mark not the beginnings of a new climate movement but the death rattle of the old one.

Maybe there's hope for a restoration of common sense and realism in the environmental movement after all.

Nah.

COMMENT OF THE DAY:

Now that our President is actively encouraging the John Galt-ing of our nation, only the richer Americans will leave.

Shorter version of the Obama/Dem talking points: After 5 years, we don't have a clue how to create real jobs so we're going to pretend we never wanted them and neither should you.

Scroll up to read the rest of the post.

SORT OF AN ACOUSTIC BLENDER: Nanomotors Could Churn Inside of Cancer Cells to Mush. My question is will it kill 'em or spread 'em?

MISGUIDED WAR ON HILLARY? Instapundit argues that Ron Paul's attack on the Democrats' "war on women" meme will make it painful for them to bring it up: "Even a flatworm is smart enough to turn away from pain."

Unfortunately Democrats are not as smart as flatworms.

CURIOSITY ROVER conquers Martian sand dune.

LEADERSHIP: Obama seems to be taking Dilbert seriously.

THOUGHTS from the Scorekeeper. My responses/additions:

2. Enough to cover the entire South to a depth of one inch.

5. Change 'Poca' to 'real America'.

7. Note that the real economy still beat the government economy.

11. Pink flip-flops.

15. Alley cats should be insulted.

CLARENCE THOMAS: Society is overly sensitive about race. Liberals are not amused.

SNOWPOCALYPSE: Manassas edition. Some photos from around the house.

Love that global warming....

GO BACK TO WORK? What do the jobless do when the benefits end?

Democrats want to give the unemployed more benefits; Republicans want to get them jobs.

THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT: revised edition.

400-POUND DEMOCRAT: Republicans ‘Just Want People to Starve’. And Democrats just want to make them fat.

What's mildly amusing is Jerrold Nadler's utter lack of self-awareness.

Linked from Instapundit, where the comments aren't pretty.

OBAMACARE is what Obama wants it to be. "The actual text of the legislation ... is secondary to what best serves his political purpose at the time. While Republicans are attacked for wanting to sabotage Obamacare whenever they propose reasonable changes through the constitutional legislative process, it has been deemed perfectly acceptable for Obama to unilaterally make sweeping alterations."

NO RUNWAY, NO PROBLEM: Use the freeway.