THE STUPID, it is strong here. And getting stronger, and not just in Sweden.

INSTAPUNDIT: Not a formula for progress.

The Greens and the Luddites got power, just as Nixon initiated the Regulatory Explosion that brought us OSHA, EPA, and various new regulatory regimes, even as money was being diverted to transfer payments to people who didn’t produce anything except votes — from funding the X-15 to funding Section 8.

Instapundit summarized well; now go read the rest.

POWERLINE on 'knowable unknowables'.

MEDICAID IS BROKEN and expansion won't fix it. What isn't mentioned is that the same is becoming true of Medicare as well.

AMMO GRRRLL returns with a welcome to Planet Diversity.

UNEXPECTEDLY, OF COURSE: Obama opens fraud-ridden benefits programs to illegal immigrants.

KATHLEEN SEBELIUS: Obamacare is working so well it should probably be renamed. 'Edsel' comes to mind....

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Congress can pull back the REINS on Washington. And it's well past time to do so.

CIRCLE DANCING: I prefer to think of it as a circular firing squad.

THE ONLY REASON I'd post about Lena Dunham is to emphasize my belief that a huge mistake was made when states began closing their insane asylums.

CROMNIBUS PASSES, bursts at the seams with special-interest goodies. We've had six years of 'Obamnibus' appropriation bills; it's well past time to go back to the regular order of appropriating/authorizing for each department individually.

FOCUS ON BETA MALES: Lumbersexuality and Its Discontents. They could try, you know, actually becoming alpha males instead of play-acting some silly fantasy that has zero basis in the real world.

OBAMACARE is bad economics as well as bad healthcare.

A.B. STODDARD: Democrats sick of ObamaCare. You guys bought a poison pill; now be be good little boys and girls and swallow it.

KEEP TRYING, ELIZABETH: I look forward to the next government shutdown being blamed on Democrats.

Doug Powers agrees: "What's Cherokee for 'flip-flop'?"

A METAPHOR for the Democrat and Republican parties. Guess who's the Democrat....

WHY IT'S BETTER TO GO WITHOUT HEALTH 'INSURANCE': Cuomo to order NY insurers to cover transgender surgeries.

I’M AN OBAMA SUPPORTER. But Obamacare has hurt my family. Maybe you should have thought of that before you became an Obama supporter.

WILL MICHIGAN GOVERNOR ride Detroit resurgence to the White House? Doubtful, but Republican governors will be important in the rebuilding of America over the next few years.