FORTUNATELY THE LEFT WON’T LISTEN and no one else pays any attention to the New York Times.

REID DEFENDS TIME SPENT IN D.C., wishes the [Nevada Senate] race wasn't 'as close as it is'.

I’ll agree with Reid on one point - I wish Sharron Angle was further ahead, too ....

DEMOCRATS RETREAT TO COASTS; GOP rules the heartland.

THE POLICIES of the Chinese government make it possible for Americans to acquire a vast array of products at affordable prices. For that high crime and misdemeanor, the US House of Representatives voted last week to punish China.

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GALLUP REPORTS unemployment at 10.1 percent. And that doesn’t include those - like me - who’ve given up looking.

FAST TRAINS.

Except for bicycles, mass transit is the greenest of transportation technologies. Experts may quibble about whether electric and hybrid-electric vehicles yield net energy and carbon savings, but there's no doubt that to the extent travellers can be lured from cars onto trains, substantial efficiencies result. As for air travel, greenhouse gas emissions are so great some green-minded indviduals try to avoid it altogether.

While the focus of the article is on China’s train technology, the dogmatic assertion above leaves me unimpressed.

HEH. Any partisanship evinced by Fox [News] is destructive, but those partisans that agree with us night after night [MSNBC] are just keeping government honest.

PELOSI NOW AS POPULAR AS BP: an insult to BP.

HOW DO YOU CREATE A JOB? You have to suffer Blumenthal’s response (about 1:30 long) for McMahon’s devastating response (less than 15 seconds).

THE SNOOPS ARE COMING: Obama wants a back door to our social media.

Surprised?

A STORY about cowardice.

The cartoon is here.

THE NANNY PARTY AT WORK: Let’s ban sugary drinks for people on food stamps.

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.

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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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