CHEER UP: The pessimists are wrong and America's future is bright.

Jeff Jacoby looks back and comes to the same conclusion.

NO. NEXT QUESTION? Will Obama find his inner Clinton?

Obama's about to find out that Americans can get along just fine without a President.

CENSUS BUREAU: Florida, North Carolina up a peg; New York, Michigan down. Just verifies what my wife, a Florida cracker, has known for years -- all 'native Floridians' originate in either Michigan or New York. (She was born in New York.)

HISTORY REPEATS: just not soon enough.

THE SHEER PETTINESS OF THE LEFT: Architect demands his association prohibit designing torture chambers.

CHRISTMASTIME: then and now. George W. Bush is a better man than Barack Obama can ever be....