PART-TIME WORKERS' INCOME PLUMMENTS. The Washington Post isn't very strong in the common sense department; income usually plummets when the economy tanks.

WHY REPUBLICANS WILL WIN IN NOVEMBER: they only kinda suck. Read it all; you'll understand.

THE DEMOCRATS' QUANDRY: "If you’re the party of big government it’s in your long-term interest to deliver big government services as effectively and inexpensively as possible. The public employee unions tend to be your adversary, not your ally, up and down the line: their incentives are to increase costs and reduce accountability."

Democrats are not warriors; they tend to forget that the enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.

THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT ... "has brought many new people into politics --- and many with sharper political instincts than their detractors in the press have been able to understand."

THE 2010 IG NOBEL AWARDS have been presented. The Ig Nobel Awards honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative—and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology.

My personal favorites are the engineering prize, for perfecting a method to collect whale snot using a remote-control helicopter, and the management prize, for demonstrating mathematically that organizations would become more efficient if they promoted people at random.

BARNEY FRANK'S POPULARITY in Massachusetts is on the wane. It's about time.

More here.

U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE VIRGINIA PHILLIPS declares "don't ask don't tell unconstitutional; the Obama administration - correctly in my view - appeals the decision, asking that it be held until the military completes its review in December.

Here's why: gay activists and lawyers.

Linked from Commentary Magazine.

WHY THE LEFT SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED LOADED WEAPONS: they're too likely to shoot themselves in the foot.

And be sure to check out the storyboard and Iowahawk links ....

AMBER ALERT issued for "by our Creator." Once might accidental; twice, concidential; but three times? That's a pattern.

TROOPS CHAFE: "To the U.S. Army soldiers and Marines serving here, some things seem so obviously true that they are beyond debate. Among those perceived truths: The restrictive rules of engagement that they have to fight under have made serving in combat far more dangerous for them, while allowing the Taliban to return to a position of strength."

OBAMA MAY OPT for new military advisers. Of course. His current advisors want to win wars; not lose them.

DON'T GIVE THE LAWYERS any ideas.

THEY'RE NOT EDUCATED; they're just credentialed.

Heh.

I WONDER WHY: Over half of all new jobs created in the last year were created in Texas.

D-FOR-DENIAL: All indications coming out of the White House suggest that if Democrats suffer major losses, the president and his top aides will resolutely refuse to reconsider the policies ... that led to their defeat.

MORE THAN HALF OF AMERICANS say they think that federal workers are overpaid for the work they do ... according to a Washington Post poll.

I know at least one federal worker who is dramatically overpaid ....

OBAMACARE LAWSUIT UPDATE from Virginia's Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli:

As most of you know, today was Virginia's day in court to defend liberty against the individual mandate contained in the healthcare bill. Virginia's is the first state case to be heard on the merits of its arguments regarding constitutionality - and according to the judge today, we are likely to hear a decision before the end of the year.

Virginia's case rests on a single basic premise: That the federal government's attempt to stretch the Constitution's Commerce Clause to allow it to force individuals to buy a private product - private health insurance - is unconstitutional. We also have to parry the federal government's fallback argument, specifically, they argue that the penalty for NOT buying their government-approved health insurance is actually a tax under Congress' Constitutional Taxing Power. Mind you, it's called a "penalty" in the law itself and Democrat leaders - including President Obama - argued vehemently that the penalty was NOT a tax before the bill was voted on in Congress (see here).

I am looking forward to providing all of you with a more substantial update, but for now, rest assured that today went very well for Virginia. While we don't know how the judge will rule, we are confident that we laid out the best case possible in the defense of liberty.

So far, so good ....

MARYLAND GOVERNOR: Illegal immigrants are really just “new Americans.” No. Legal immigrants are potential "new Americans;" illegal immigrants are just ... illegal.

Hopefully O'Malley will lose in November, but Maryland is a very blue state.

ELECT OBAMA PRESIDENT, what do you get? Four years older and deeper in debt: National debt up $3 trillion on Obama's watch.

EPIC FAILS: