JUST WHEN YOU THINK THEY CAN'T SINK ANY LOWER: NAACP, Left-Leaning Media Groups Form Tea Party Tracking Site.

The Left has become completely unglued.

BACKING AWAY from climate change. From the comments, a very astute observation: "If we’re talking about science, then facts are determined by evidence, not by weighing the credentials of the experts on either side of the issue."

Which is why the debate will never end ... believers argue the credentials; skeptics argue the evidence.

A METAPHOR FOR LIBERALISM: Smart Fortwo proves it isn't (smart).

GEE, THANKS, MR. PRESIDENT. [S]eniors who rely on Medicare will replace Medicaid recipients at the bottom of the health care ladder as early as 2019, five years after the individual mandate kicks in.

I start Medicare in just over two months ....

NO CRISIS SHOULD EVER BE ALLOWED TO SLIP BY without calls for greater public expenditure of doubtful worth.

This is a perfect example of government "services" that must be cut from the budget.

NOVEMBER IS COMING: another sign pops up in the neighborhood.


Frank Wolf is our representative to Congress (VA-10), but I doubt he's responsible for the putting up the sign.

THE RACE CARD has maxed out. It seems there is a limit.

WHY WATCH HGTV? When I can watch the squirrel on my back porch use my mop to build his nest?


In the space of 4 hours, he came back for more at least three times.

DISMANTLING AMERICA, PART II: “This country has been changed in a ... profound way by corrupting its fundamental values. The Obama administration has begun bribing people with the promise of getting their medical care and other benefits paid for by other people, so long as those other people can be called ‘the rich’.... There was a time when most Americans would have resented the suggestion that they wanted someone else to pay their bills. But now, envy and resentment have been cultivated to the point where even people who contribute nothing to society feel that they have a right to a ‘fair share’ of what others have produced.”

HOW THE LEFT creates the Right it fears and despises.

Follow the link to Ross Douthat’s New York Times column; then note that “First America” (natch) is the progressive Left’s view of themselves and “Second America” is the progressive Left’s view of the Right.

Both stereotypes are wildly inconsistent with reality, but they do help explain why the Left holds the right in such contempt.

LOVE THE HEADLINE: Gun-wielding ecoterrorist calls for reduction in human population, gets wish.

OUCH!

THOUGHTS ON Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally at the Lincoln Memorial.

We left the house at 7 am to catch the Springfield Metro into DC for the rally -- we arrived at the Foggy Bottom Metro station about 11:30 am, 3-1/2 hours later. Here’s what it looked like at the Springfield Metro station about 8 am. The parking garage is just out of the picture to the left.


Here’s what it looked like once we got into the parking garage. Then over the pedestrial bridge and into the Metro station itself.


Then there was the 6-block or so walk from Foggy Bottom to the Lincoln Memorial. In this picture you can see the top of the Lincoln Memorial just above the treeline in the distance. By the time this picture was taken, the rally was a bit more than half over, and a few people were already leaving.


This was taken from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, above and behind the speaker’s podium, looking toward the Washington Monument. For comparison, the AP photo taken from the Washington Monument is here.


We tried to move further away from the Lincoln Memorial in order to see - and hear - better: this is what we faced along each side of the reflecting pool. The crowd density didn’t change until one was several hundred yards away from the reflecting pool.


As to thoughts and observations about the rally, I’ll leave that to Paul Mirengoff of PowerLine. My observations mirror his.

As to crowd size, I’ve heard numbers ranging from 300,000 on the low side to 500,000 on the high side. The latter number came from Glenn Beck on his show a few days later, and I suspect it’s the more accurate number despite the source. I checked Metro statistics for ridership on 8/28, and Metro rail alone carried 510,020 passengers compared to a average August Saturday of just a bit more than 320,000. The numbers don’t include bus ridership.

And a final note: when leaving, some “liberal” in a car driving by shouted “Where are the blacks?” Somehow I doubt he drove past the Sharpton rally and shouted “Where are the whites?”

WALLOWING IN KATRINA: “Isn't the real scandal here that, after FIVE YEARS, people down there are still bellowing for federal dollars, rather than being expected to stand on their own feet?”

No, the real scandal is that we have a government that encourages that behavior.

SEEN ON CHURCH MESSAGE BOARDS during a recent day trip around Virginia:

Prayer – the original wireless

Eternity is a long time to pay for a mistake

I would only add that in politics, 2 years is an eternity.

I DO THINK, at some point, you’ve done enough damage.

THE SHARKS ARE CIRCLING: ”What's clear right now is that the president who claimed to be the personification of a world-historical moment has clearly misread his mandate, the mood and the moment. He's lost at sea, and not even a bigger boat will save him.”

THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE until the market improves.

DOES ANYBODY IN WASHINGTON DC have a lick of common sense?



The PowerLine post is here.

UPDATE: Read the PowerLine post. I think the answer has to be no common sense, but plenty of vindictiveness.

IT IS NOW SAFE TO SAY that the average New York Times columnist is not as smart as the average American.