STRANGER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED: Scott Brown is now the Republican senator from Massachusetts.

AFTER SOARING, wind glides. The “cuteness” factor has peaked.

NO SHIT, SHERLOCK: 'Clunkers' was a classic government folly.

When all is said and done, Cash for Clunkers was a deplorable exercise in budgetary wastefulness, asset destruction, environmental irrelevance, and economic idiocy. Other than that, it was a screaming success.

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RAHM EMANUEL is asian?

WHEN WILL WE HAVE ANOTHER BLACK PRESIDENT?

It’s entirely possible that President Obama has poisoned the well for at least a generation. It has nothing to do with the fact that he is black; it is because he is grossly ill-fitted for the job and may well be the worst U.S. president thus far.

I think that’s a fair statement. Read it all.

DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS' BLUEBONNETS

ARE WE SURE it isn’t interstellar Braille?

Link from Instapundit.

DAY TRIP - Susquehanna River Water Trail in south-central Pennsylvania. The parts we drove along reminded me of what used to be said of the Rio Grande river separating Texas from Mexico: “a mile wide and an inch deep.”


Duncannon, PA from the eastern shore of the Susquehanna River.


Susquehanna river from the Fort Hunter river park.


Railroad bridge crossing at Rockville (north of Harrisburg).

SOCIAL SECURITY STUPIDITY: Paul Krugman is Economics’ Goofus MacDuff.

Correction: My bad. In the book, Goofus always got the analysis right, and the conclusion wrong. Krugman couldn't even get the analysis right.

CONGRATULATIONS, MR. PRESIDENT:


On September 5, a new low of -23 in the Rasmussen Presidential Approval Index.

SENIOR EXECUTIVES, on-air personalities, producers, reporters, editors, writers and other self-identifying employees of ABC, CBS and NBC contributed more than $1 million to Democratic candidates and campaign committees in 2008.

That must be why they’re mad that Fox News got a front row seat in the White House press briefing room - they thought they had paid for it.

NOW THAT THE IRAQ WAR IS OVER, deficits will go down.


Oh, really?

LESSONS from the Lightworker:

Our formerly august mainstream media is replete with socialists.

Liberals love the poor with other people’s money.

Liberals only economic policy is tax and spend, spend, spend, then tax some more.

Appeasement still does not work.

Liberals never ask “Is it constitutional?” or “Will it work?”

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WITH A WHIMPER OR A BANG — OR NOT AT ALL? I think we’ll know in November.

HEH: Look who’s nativist now.

PRESIDENT OBAMA VOWS to fight Republican “newfangled schemes” to privatize Social Security.

“I want to encourage people to save more on their own,” Obama said in Ohio. “But I don’t want them taking money out of Social Security so that people are putting that into the stock market.”

Translation: save your own money; Social Security is mine!

LET’S INVESTIGATE THE 9/11 FAMILIES. Why Nancy Pelosi needs to go ....

THE AUDACITY OF TAUPE.

Then: “There are times where you can afford to redecorate your house, and there are times where you need to focus on rebuilding the foundation."

Now: "It [the Oval Office redecoration] looks a little like the décor you'd expect to see in a hotel, the Taupe Executive Room at the Embassy Suites."

So ... we get to rebuild while he gets to redecorate.

IMAGINE THAT: There are leftwing wackos, too! Follow the link to the full article.

DISMANTLING AMERICA, PART IV: "Someone once said that a democratic society cannot survive for long after 51 percent of the people decide that they want to live off the other 49 percent. Yet that is the direction in which we are being pushed by those who are promoting envy under its more high-toned alias of ‘social justice’."

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