MY REALITY IS NOT YOUR REALITY: "Nancy Pelosi is busy trying to emphasize to the country that no, she really has been detached from reality these last four years. Here she mounts a vigorous defense of Obamacare, actually going so far as to say that they would have had to pass the bill to save money -- even if everyone in the country was perfectly happy with their health insurance. Why? Because it saves so much money!"

It must be tough having her ego crammed into the Minority Leader's office.

THE STRONGEST CLASS ENVY IN AMERICA "may be the resentment of those who were one club above you at Yale."

Read it all.

OBAMACARE MESS it the legacy of the Democrats' moment of power.

Moral: divided government is good government.

THE DEMOCRATS CONUNDRUM: If you want less income inequality, does that means fewer illegal immigrants?

A MESSAGE FROM THE NEW HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER

We began our new majority with a simple, but highly important act. For the first time in recent history, the House gathered together and actually read the Constitution. It served as an important reminder that this institution is the People's House.

We have also adopted new rules to establish a Constitution-focused House of Representatives. From this moment forward, every bill must be accompanied by a statement of Constitutional authority that permits it.

Our new Majority stands for a different and better way. We believe in a government that controls less and spends less. This Congress will be a "cut-and-grow" Congress. We are going to cut spending and job-killing government regulations, and grow the economy and private sector jobs. Click here to watch the Weekly Republican Address, in which I discuss where Congress needs to go.

For too long, families and small businesses across America tightened their belts while the federal government continued its spending spree. Therefore, our first piece of legislation was to cut our own Congressional budgets - saving the taxpayers millions of dollars in the first year alone.

It passed the House overwhelmingly and our first spending cut is now in effect.

This is only the beginning.

Regards,

Rep. Eric Cantor
House Majority Leader

DEMOCRATIC PARTY ID drops to lowest level in 22 years. I can't imagine why ....

ANIMAL FARM: The Harsh Rhetoric of Anti-Immigration Republicans. Navarette is playing his victim card; the subject is tracking, not animals.

Nevertheless, he does have a small point: all immigrants have traditionally been viewed with some suspicion until they have successfully assimilated.

TAX NON-PROFITS? You betcha!

IRONY ALERT: the solution to government bureaucracy is ... more bureaucracy.

OBAMACARE: barely implemented and already over budget and under-serving.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON writes in defense of the liberal arts. He's right, of course, but the liberal arts he cherishes no longer exists. As one commenter notes: " ... liberal arts [have turned] into a melodrama of race, class and gender oppression. Liberal arts are a sweet fruit that can transform individuals and societies into reasoning and moral beings, but that fruit is completely rotten now ... and thus poisonous. It should be thrown out until it can no longer be used as an excuse to indoctrinate ...."

It would be a pity to toss the baby with the bathwater, but the bathwater is so foul ....

FROM THE EMAIL: the world's largest army -- America's hunters.

The state of Wisconsin has gone an entire deer hunting season without someone getting killed. That's great. There were over 600,000 hunters. Over the last two months, the eighth largest army in the world - more men under arms than Iran; more than France and Germany combined - deployed to the woods of a single American state to help keep the deer menace at bay.

But that pales in comparison to the 750,000 who are in the woods of Pennsylvania this week. Michigan's 700,000 hunters have now returned home. Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia, and it is literally the case that the hunters of those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the world.

The point? America will forever be safe from foreign invasion with that kind of home-grown firepower.

Hunting -- it's not just a way to fill the freezer. It's a matter of national security.

Sarah Palin would be proud.

DAVID FRUM goes after faceless 'libertarians,' actual libertarian eats Frum's lunch.

THE MORALS, they are a changin'.

THE ENTITLEMENT STATE IS COLLAPSING ... long live the entitlement state. As an early baby-boomer, I've got it bad, but my kids will have it much worse, and my grandkids, well ... we can hope the whole system has collapsed before they're called to pay up.

SOCIAL SECURITY: "designed to enslave the American population into government dependence and to defeat America’s tradition of individual liberty and self-reliance."

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: 2011 politically correct resolutions. I hope his assessment is correct.

CENSUS: Fastest growth in states with no income tax.

Seven of the nine states that do not levy an income tax grew faster than the national average. The other two ... had the fastest growth in their regions. Altogether, 35 percent of the nation's total population growth occurred in these nine non-taxing states.

Surprise, surprise.

WHAT FORM OF GROUP MADNESS is it that forsakes judgment and discernment for process run amok?

COLMAN McCARTHY, another loser in the Washington Post's stable of occasional columnists, argues that ROTC has no place on "elite" college campuses. Jonah Goldberg and Victor Davis Hanson eviserate his arguments.

Instapundit: "It’s funny that the likes of Colman McCarthy feel morally or intellectually superior to, well, anyone."