THE LIMITS OF POLITICS: “Hardcore blue staters control virtually every major Congressional committee, as well as the House Speakership and the White House. Yet they still have proved incapable of reversing the demographic and economic decline in the nation's most "progressive" cities and states. ”

Do you think that maybe, just maybe, it’s because their policies don’t work? What a surprise ....

Linked from Instapundit.

WHEN BAD NEWS ARRIVES, shoot the messenger.

Yep. That'll work. But only if the messenger has "Representative" or "Senator" in front of his/her name.

TAX PREPARERS to see new IRS regulations requiring competency tests.

Before they start regulating H&R Block, perhaps the IRS should get their own house in order.

Or is the goal to have H&R increase its error rate to match IRS’s 34% error rate?

WHAT’S MORE IMPORTANT? Keeping terrorists off airplanes or unionizing the Transportation Security Administration?

SCRAP TSA and start over.

Let me get this straight: a guy buys a one-way ticket in cash with no baggage, and tries to blow up the plane. Some poor fool goes the wrong way through a checkpoint at Newark, and the entire airport is shut down for several hours. Now TSA arrests Michael Yon for refusing to say how much money he makes.

It was bad enough when the organization's day-to-day operations treated law-abiding citizens like cattle. But this is strike three. Scrap the organization as it exists and start over. As it is currently set up, it achieves none of its goals. It isn't preventing the bad guys from coming in, it's causing massive delays over false alarms, and it's making false arrests of innocent citizens.

Yes. And let Dutch passengers fly free.

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Every single “teabagger” in America is white.

And every single MSNBC host is ...







[Added] So, does it logically follow that every single MSNBC host is a "teabagger?"

ET TU, BRUTE? Even CSPAN is calling Obama out.

Obama will vote "present" (again) and punt this to Congress. Does anyone really believe Harry and Nancy will permit open coverage?

WHAT A SURPRISE ... “The public is not only shifting from left to right. Every single idea associated with the educated class has grown more unpopular over the past year.”

Read it all.

Link via Instapundit.

THERE WAS A TIME when I had a modest respect for National Public Radio. Not any more.

It’s time to wean them from the public teat.

STIMULUS MONEY went to non-existent ZIP codes.

Instapundit comments: “Yeah, but it helped to ease the crushing burden of nonexistent unemployment there.”

IS THE IRS getting kinder? Or less efficient?

I used to get my tax forms before Christmas. This year I didn't receive the 1040s until today.

THE INNER WORKINGS of ObamaCare.

I suspect this is an accurate representation of what will come if the current legislation is passed.

FIVE MYTHS about keeping America safe from terrorism: "The biggest whopper of all? The paternalistic assertion that the government can keep us all safe without our help."

And worse, the systematic disempowerment of our citizens by a government enamored of that myth.

MARKETING 101: when the product stinks, no amount of marketing is going to cover it up.

[Added] This administration is the most incompetent - and arrogant - in my memory.

I'LL REDUCE my carbon footprint when ...



Link from Michelle Malkin.

ON ISSUES "like global warming ..., scientists need to speak up." So writes an illiterate "science journalist."

The central lesson of Climategate is ... that in a world of blogs, cable news and talk radio, scientists are poorly equipped to communicate their knowledge and, especially, to respond when science comes under attack.

I can't help but wonder which side Chris Mooney would have taken when Galelio Galilei was forced by the establishment to recant his support of the heliocentric view of the universe.

PRIORITIES: "It speaks eloquently to the Obama administration’s priorities that it took the White House four days to acknowledge the 'catastrophic breach of security' that led to the failed bombing of a US-bound jet on Christmas Day — but a scant four hours to accuse Dick Cheney of coddling terrorists."

It's all about remaining in power. Nothing more.

Via Instapundit.

DO AS I SAY, not as I do.

A truly environmental lifestyle would involve the kind my parents brought over from their undeveloped Slovenia in the late 1950s.... Riding bicycles or walking, pumping water from a well, and using no appliances, they led a hard life with never a day off from milking or taking care of the animals.

But they — and nineteenth-century Americans — left a very light carbon footprint.

Not so the Botoxed jet-set eco-celebs who lecture to us peasants about “saving planet Earth.”

Environmentalism - saving "planet Earth" - is simply a pretext for consolidating and preserving liberals' power.

Read it all.

THE BRIGHT SIDE of ObamaCare ...



... for seniors only.

AN ALASKAN on Sarah Palin: "It’s not about persona, style, rhetoric, it’s about doing things."