VIA INSTAPUNDIT: “Wow! The Republicans have only been in control of the House for less than 48 hours and already the unemployment rate has dropped to 9.4%!”

If only it were really so. The post and links are here.

IT’S BACK: duck and cover.

I still remember the civil defense drills and back yard bomb shelters of the 1950’s. I was just over 9 months old when the first nuclear weapon exploded over Hiroshima; my wife would be born a month later.

ONCE IN A BLUE MOON: Obama was right.

Actually, that isn't quite correct. Blue moons occur more frequently than Obama is right.

GOOD RIDDANCE: Gibbs to depart White House.

OBAMACARE ends construction of doctor-owned hospitals. Unintended consequences.

Or were they intended consequences?

STUPIDITY: it's the way to bet. Follow the links.

YOU DECIDE: How much of President Obama's health care reform should be repealed? Right now, "all of it" is leading 2 to 1.

OBAMA REALLY DOES NOT UNDERSTAND the difference between receiving a paycheck in exchange for creating wealth, and getting a government handout in exchange for nothing.

BANNING ROTC AT THE IVIES is as damaging to the military as banning recruitment at Vassar would be to the NFL.

And some excellent advice for the college-bound:

There are thousands of great colleges around the nation at which you can learn any skill or profession you choose. And in none of those colleges will you be so indoctrinated in contempt for your nation, its history and values as you will be in the Ivies. Give yourself a boost in life: for all the supposed benefits you'd get in an Ivy League school, you'll learn more and gain a more realistic view of your nation and the world if you attend a college that's not among the Ivies. Learn elsewhere, and graduate without having your nose so stuck in the air that you believe America isn't a force for good in the world.

Linked from Instapundit.

TO WIN, Obama has to fool some folks all the time. Unfortunately, that’s not difficult.

2011 PREDICTIONS: "I’m moving to Alaska, where I expect Sarah Palin to become a powerful warlord."

COLLEGE CENSORS, get ready to open your wallets.

And do it more widely. It's past time for conservatives to lift a play from the progressive playbook and start using the judicial branch to go on offense.

THE OBAMAS POLICE FOOD AND FOOTBALL: Why their comments on Michael Vick and school lunches make us queasy.

GOD SAVE US from the busybodies.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: How did ...

20-minutes-of-fame Julian Assange construct the façade of an idealistic crusading electronic muckraker?

global warming so easily get away with becoming “climate change”?

authoritarian and Islamist Palestinian groups become reinvented into traditional Western victimized minorities — analogous to women, gays, and minorities

professors convince us that their universities are progressive, anti-capitalist, and against the grain institutions?

Barack Obama invent himself into a bi-partisan, working across the aisle, no more red state/blue state unifying figure?

"Lurking somewhere behind all these improbables is a rather small Western elite that is enormously influential in the media, government, the arts, universities, and Hollywood."

REDUCING MAN-MADE CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS is completely and utterly pointless if your goal is to change the future climate. On the other hand, if you’re looking to ... control the way the modern world makes energy, then it makes perfect sense....

IF YOU LIKE police officers having quotas for speeding tickets, you will love the Obama administrations' new health care regulations.

MORE LEGAL TROUBLES for NYC Mayor Bloomberg's gun grabbers. "The number of Bloomberg's group that are facing felony and lesser charges is simply astounding."

As Instapundit notes: "Well, not so astounding when you consider they're politicians."

AFTER MY LAYOFF and subsequent retirement, I thought I was a failure. I was wrong.

REFRAMING THE DEBATE: Some questions to ask progressive liberals.