HEH. The peasants are revolting.

Read it all, including the comments.

Via Instapundit (second link).

A TRIUMPHANT DEFEAT: “The president packed nearly 75 percent of a 3,000 seat hall. Meanwhile, a similar rally for Scott Brown couldn't even provide seats for everyone, and left some out in the cold ...”

MICHAEL BARONE on the Brown victory in Massachusetts: “Obama and ‘the educated class’ think they know what is best for the little guy. The voters of Massachusetts (Massachusetts!) beg to differ. Is anyone in the White House listening?”

Read it all.

BYE, BYE, OBAMACARE. Nancy Pelosi announces that she doesn’t have the votes.

THOSE PHYSICIAN-REPORTERS in Haiti are actually practicing medicine and saving lives, and some journalism "ethicists" are having hissy fits.

While reporters should help when they can save a life or prevent profound harm, "I think it's very hard for an individual who is professionally and emotionally engaged in saving lives to be able to simultaneously step back from the medical work and practice independent journalistic truth-telling," said Bob Steele, journalism values scholar at the Poynter Institute and journalism professor at DePauw University.

"Truth-telling" is more important than saving lives? Not exactly.

(B)y focusing on the work being done by their own staff, "news organizations at some point appear to be capitalizing for promotional reasons on the intervention by journalists," Steele added.

Oh, no ... they're engaging in capitalism! Horrors. I guess Anderson Cooper should have let that kid die to retain his journalistic integrity.

No wonder "professional journalists" are held in such low regard.

UNDER OBAMACARE, 'patient choice' means the patient can choose to die.

Expect the best medicine that bureaucracy will allow.

NOTHING TO SAY. Umm, we got trounced?

LOCAL NEWS SHOWS are where the biased action is.

There is a case to be made that the steady drumbeat of hyped-up threats — SUV’s that roll over, kitchen-counter bacteria, road rage, swine flu, amber alerts and the stations’ willingness to enlist governments and institutions to solve those “perceived” problems, actually drives a lot of bad and unnecessary public policy.

Building a culture of dependency from the ground up. Read it all.

PRESIDENTIAL APPROVAL INDEX - one year later. The approval index is taken from the Rasmussen daily tracking poll, with the approval index being the difference between those who “strongly approve” the President and those who “strongly disapprove”.


President Obama’s “approval” is beginning to level out, probably somewhere around the -15 level, assuming that Tuesday’s Massachusetts “Brown out” doesn’t significantly alter the trend.

Breaking the data down further into those who strongly approve, strongly disapprove, and those who mildly approve/disapprove, the trend lines indicate that while the percentage of “strong disapprovals” is indeed leveling off, there is movement from those who are “strong approvals” to weaker levels of approval.

That trend is increasing, suggesting that his base is weakening.

JIMMY WHO? Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter won the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for decades of work seeking peaceful solutions and promoting social and economic justice. Carter won praise for his tireless work as an ex-president in trying to bring peace to places from Haiti to North Korea.

President Obama appointed former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton to oversee Haiti relief funding; when he was President, George W. Bush appointed former presidents Bill Clinton and (his father) George H. W. Bush to oversee Indonesian tsunami relief.

Where is (was) former president Jimmy Carter?

Don Surber has more on the missing ex-president.

I BLAME THE MEDIA for trying to scare the daylights out of everyone.

Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Earthquake victims, writhing in pain and grasping at life, watched doctors and nurses walk away from a field hospital Friday night after a Belgian medical team evacuated the area, saying it was concerned about security.

Via Instapundit.

NEW WHITE HOUSE COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR Dan Pfeiffer on Fox News: "I have the same view of Fox that [predecessor] Anita [Dunn] had, which is that Fox is not a traditional news organization," he said. "They have a point of view. That point of view pervades the entire network both the opinion shows, like Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly, but also through the newscasts during the day."

Greta van Susteren is ready for battle.

WALL STREET OR OBAMA STREET?


Nate Beeler in the Washington Examiner.

CITIGROUP suffers $7.6 billion loss. Much of the bank's big loss was tied to the repayment of its bailout loan.

Question: how much of that loss was taken by Citigroup specifically to get out from under heavy-handed government regulation?

[F]EELING THEY ARE SMARTER THAN YOU, this Democratic president and his compliant Democratic Congress don't want to control spending. They want to control you. And they are spending (and borrowing) your money to do it.

Read it all.

THIS QUESTION came from a Washington Post poll conducted from Jan 12-15, 2010.

Generally speaking, would you say you favor (smaller government with fewer services), or (larger government with more services)?

Nearly 60% favored smaller government.

Given the current political environment, that isn't too surprising. What is surprising is that it wasn't mentioned in the Washington Post article discussing the poll.

More surprising, looking at the details, was that the question has been asked in many polls before, and the results are consistent: 50% or more of the people polled since 1992 has opted for a smaller government with fewer services.


The rapid divergence post-Obama (white line) is particularly striking. The obvious conclusion is that it is a strong reaction to Democrats' overreach following the 2008 presidential election.

The Wall Street Journal has more on overreach.

BERKELEY HIGH SCHOOL might drop its science labs from its curriculum. The reason? Too many white kids were taking these classes.

[T]he lamentable “gap” spoken of by Berkeley commandants isn’t in enrollment, but in grades. The white kids are doing better in excess of what is acceptable ... such that the heart-warming state of equality is absent.

If equality of outcome with respect to grades is [Berkeley's] goal, then eliminating the lab courses does ensure that all students will be equally poor in science.

What's next ... the "inequality factories" of math and science?

IN RESPONSE TO French accusations that the US is “occupying Haiti”, Neal Boortz responds:

The United States - the people and our military - have stepped up in a big way to organize relief efforts in Haiti. Sure ... we sent the military. Who would you rather we send? ACORN? The United Auto Workers? The Service Employees International Union?

Why not? Fight thuggery with thugs.

Fox News is reporting a 53-47 Brown lead over Coakley in the Massachusetts at 9 pm with 52% of the precincts reporting.

Looks like a Brown victory.

[Update] Fox News is reporting that the Associated Press is calling the election for Scott Brown at 9:20 pm with 69% of precincts reporting. The percentages are 53% for Brown, 46% for Coakley. Coakley has conceded.

IS THE STOCK MARKET responding to the Massachusetts senate election?


Dow Jones Industrial Average as of 3:22 pm.

[Update] The Mudville Gazette agrees.