MORE NANNY GOVERNMENT. This came to me in a company email:

On May 6, the Department of Labor and Securities Exchange Commission released a primer on target date funds for investors and plan participants. The primer contains background on the funds along with a list of considerations for possible investors to take into account; the considerations include:

Whether or not a hands-off investment approach
is favorable
Whether the fund has an appropriate risk level
Whether the fund's glidepath is appropriate
Whether the fees are acceptable

Question: how much longer until the government requires 401k and 403b plans to invest only in target-date funds? I’m betting not long.

OBAMA DOUBLES DOWN ON ARIZONA. President Obama, May 19th: “[I]n the United States of America no law-abiding person, be they an American citizen, a legal immigrant or a visitor or tourist from Mexico, should ever be subject to suspicion simply because of what they look like.”

PowerLine comments: “If many people suspect that those around them who appear to be Mexican might be illegals, maybe we should blame the 12 million or so Mexicans who are, in fact, illegals, rather than accusing the people of Arizona of bigotry.”

ARE ADULTS FINALLY TAKING CHARGE? Congress is in the midst of the most significant generational shift since 1974. The congressmen and senators who came of age during the Nixon years, mainly liberal Democrats shaped by Vietnam and Watergate, are on the way out. A bunch of youngsters, mainly conservative Republicans shaped by 9/11 and the financial crisis, is on the way in. It’s a trend that will influence our politics for decades.

MICHAEL BARONE: the gathering revolt against government spending.

MICHAEL TOTTEN on Obama’s selection of a new Director of National Intelligence: “Good grief.... I’d have a little more faith in the Obama Administration’s foreign policy officials if they demonstrated more consistent knowledge of Middle East 101.”

I’d be happy if they demonstrated any knowledge of the Middle East.

No, on second thought, make that “I’d be happy if they demonstrated any knowledge, period.”

REPUBLICANS WIN SEAT IN DEMOCRATIC STRONGHOLD.

Republican Charles Djou topped Democrats Colleen Hanabusa and former Rep. Ed Case (D-HI) to succeed retired Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) in Congress.

Given that he was fighting a split Democratic party in the special election, it’s not likely that Djou will retain the seat in November when he’s competing against a single Democrat candidate.

But we can hope.

READING IS FUNDAMENTAL.



Arizona attempts to educate the aggressively stupid.

THE BOOK OF ZO - A conservative manifesto. You have to register, but it’s free.

THE DECLINE OF BASIC RESEARCH at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration jeopardizes the agency’s ability to study and explore the cosmos, a review panel of scientists and engineers said Tuesday.

Big surprise ... when all your funds are allocated for saving the Earth from evil capitalists, there’s not much left for the basics.

Link from Instapundit.

KEY AL QAEDA FIGURE accidentally blows himself up.

Al Qaeda could be a much bigger problem than it is if the terrorists weren’t so damned incompetent.

KLAVEN ON CULTURE: Financial Crisis 101. You have to register, but it’s free.

CONGRESS ABOUT TO LIMIT POLITICAL SPEECH OF BLOGGERS? This isn’t about “good government” or clean elections. It’s an attempt by Congress to step around the First Amendment and regulate political speech that threatens incumbents, just as McCain-Feingold attempted.

OBAMACARE: a Faustian bargain.

BIG BROTHER WISE GOVERNMENT comes to America.

THE MOST DEPRESSING COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS EVER




I doubt Gore will be invited back for another commencement.

My thought: all he needs is the little hat to look exactly like a Pilgram.

Linked from Hot Air.

WRITING ON THAT NOW-FAMOUS VIDEO of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie being confrontational, Paul Mulshine observes:

People are really pissed — if I may employ the governor’s term of art. And what they’re pissed about is almost entirely economic. The old red state-blue state lineup based on social issues is obsolete. At the moment, the people seem to have a better understanding of our fiscal situation than the politicians.

And now it’s up to us, the voters, to make sure the politicians understand.

A BONFIRE OF UNNECESSARY LAWS: If only it was a U.S. politician speaking....

EVEN THE RATS are deserting the U.S.S. Obama.

WRITE THIS DOWN: “Nobody has a right to a paycheck. Nobody has a right to work. What conscientious, honest people have is the will and drive and responsibility to work as hard as we possibly can so as to be as productive and quality conscious as we can be. The American Dream used to be based on excellence, not the whining, crybaby, entitlement orgy it has spiraled down to. Pathetic.”

Read it all.

GLOBAL WARMING is causing what? The weaker the case for Anthropogenic Global Warming [AGW] becomes, the louder and more exaggerated the threatened effects.

Read it all.