REVOKE KRUGMAN’S PHD! And his Nobel prize.

Linked from Instapundit.

CUT THE DEFICIT without cutting services. It’s a start, but I want to see services and personnel cut as well. Cut dramatically. And no more nonsense about laying off policemen, firemen, and teachers. Cut the bureaucrats, red-tape specialists, regulators, planners, nannies, and other “service providers.”

UPDATE: a small sign of progress; government (local, state, and federal) laid off 202,000.

TEN THOUGHTS on Obama's iftar speech.

Obama -- the man who would be King.

ARE BIGGER HEALTH-CARE NETWORKS BETTER or just creating a monopoly?

Neither. ObamaCare’s “Accountable Care Organization” is just another name for the failed HMO concept.

Read the article carefully and note yet another case where the patient is last on the priority list ....

FIXING EDUCATION: Will we ever learn?

Probably not.

WHEN LIFE HANDS YOU A LEMON, rewrite history to make it a bowl of cherries.

Linked from Instapundit. My post is here.

THE NEW ABNORMAL: “is becoming a big part of the Democrats’ pre-election spin. Americans are supposed to accept their reduced standard of living and shrunken economy. They should lift their watery eyes in gratitude to the noble Democrat Party, which won’t let any semblance of fiscal responsibility stop them from looting the future ....”

Read it all.

HELP ME, OBI-WAN KENOBI: Mosque supporters beg George W. Bush to come to Obama's rescue.

Read the comments.

More here.

THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT: the citizen class is reasserting its power over the ruling class. “Participants have emerged for one reason only: They know in their hearts and they feel in their souls the unalienable rights endowed by their Creator - life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. At the same time, Tea Partiers sense that our present government seems increasingly antithetical toward these natural rights, and a threatening enmity exists.”

ADMINISTRATIVE BLOAT: The real reason for high costs in higher education.

My only quibble is that the article is too narrow. The same can be said for almost any publicly-funded (read Government) entity.

NEVER MIND THE POLAR BEARS, I’m having a little trouble with having a “Center for Health and Global Environment” at a medical school.

DISENGAGEMENT:a lesson for today.

THERE ARE DEATH PANELS. “The solution ... is to undermine the pharmaceutical companies' profitability and eventually put them out of business, so they can't keep inventing cures society can't afford (in the comments).

GROUND ZERO MOSQUE reality check by Bill Whittle.

OBAMA’S ENDGAME: a look at the national debt.



And you can vote on this weeks cuts from the Republicans’ YouCut Project here.

I HOPE SHE INVESTIGATES HARRY REID: Pelosi calls for investigation of WTC mosque opposition.

DISMANTLING AMERICA: Thomas Sowell comments: “The Constitution was not only a challenge to the despotic governments of its time, it has been a continuing challenge-- to this day-- to all those who think that ordinary people should be ruled by their betters, whether an elite of blood, or of books or of whatever else gives people a puffed-up sense of importance.”

JOIN ‘TEAM PELOSI:’ Make it ‘Team Anyone-But-Pelosi' and I’ll consider it.

COMMON SENSE: cops, crime, and the economy.

HAS THE WHITE HOUSE used the government's power to propagandize for political gain?

I’m not sure how seriously to take this report as I’m certain that it has happened in previous administrations. However, it is certainly much more brazen under the Obama administration, and I have to wonder if that brazenness isn’t a significant contributing factor to the plunge in popularity in the polls.