FINALLY, more than a dime’s worth of difference between the parties.

WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED? Journalists are lazy, cowardly, dumb and corrupt.

GALLUP’S ASTONISHING NUMBERS and the Lake Superior congressional districts.

These ... numbers, if translated into popular votes in the 435 congressional districts, suggest huge gains for Republicans and a Republican House majority the likes of which we have not seen since the election cycles of 1946 or even 1928.

Wow.

OBAMA’S TELEPROMPTERS ARE ‘IDIOT BOARDS;’ keep him from connecting with audiences. But he’s better with a teleprompter, so which idiot is which?

EVEN AFTER GIVING IT EVERYTHING THEY HAD, they still weren't able to draw as many people as Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally in August. Why not? Because the labor movement is shrinking, aging and divided.

ENTITLEMENT: Alaska’s establishmentarian Republican demands media not run Tea Party ads. The Tea Party responds (Link via Hot Air).

"DEMOCRACY" AT ITS FINEST: the Google bomb.

More here.

GIVE LESS GOVERNMENT A CHANCE:

From the time of Woodrow Wilson, at least, the best and the brightest among us have been in constant search of ways to reinvent government to make it more citizen-centric, more citizen-friendly, more efficient, more rational, more empowering of citizens, more efficient, more management oriented, more transparent, more businesslike with more citizen engagement, more stakeholders and more new technologies, which the smarties believe will leverage government to achieve the greater good and the general welfare. Woodrow Wilson, call your office; Your Grand Government Delusion is alive and well among the smarty set, all empirical evidence to the contrary notwithstanding.

Let me offer the counter hypothesis, one supported by a century of empirical evidence: A little bit more of this and a little bit more of that where government is concerned all adds up to nothing more than, well, more government, not better government—the Grand Delusion, not the grand solution. What the smart guys never seem to get is that the only good government is small government.

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HOW TO MAKE MONEY IN THE STOCK MARKET: get a chimpanzee.

“IT USED TO BE ARGUED that the [New York] Times only wrote for a small section of Manhattan near Central Park West. Lately they seem to be writing only for a couple of floors in their own building.”

The post from which that comment comes is here.

THE WHEELS ARE COMING OFF THE PRESIDENTIAL BUS: The presidential seal fell off President Barack Obama's podium and clattered to the stage as Obama delivered a speech to a women's conference.

IF YOU LIKE YOUR HEALTHCARE, YOU CAN KEEP IT: unless you're a retiree.

Details, details. Always read the fine print.

THIS IS HOW THE DEMOCRATS WILL TREAT YOUR MONEY. They'll just throw it away.

EYE OPENER: "The financial situation is so bad in Jeannette, PA, that even its police dog has been laid off."

See page 2.

NANNY OF THE MONTH. Nannies are alive an well ....

July:



August:



September:



Reason TV is here.

IT’S NOT A POST ON HIGHER EDUCATION, but this statement caught my eye: “One wonders for how much longer parents will be willing to pay to have their children indoctrinated, in the sloppiest possible way, by ill-informed goofballs ....”

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HERE’S AN INTERESTING BILL. HR4646: to establish a fee on most transactions (meaning any transaction that uses a payment instrument, including any check, cash, credit card, transfer of stock, bonds, or other financial instrument). Meaning if you buy or sell anything, you pay a fee to the federal government.

Talk about the potential for intrusiveness ....

It won’t pass, of course. Probably won’t even get out of committee. But it does give you some insight into the mind of a liberal Democrat.

NOT A SPOILER AFTER ALL: Rep. Castle says no to write-in bid. More here.

I WISH MY CATS HAD INSURANCE ...


... they need it, and I could use the income.

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