HOW TO APPEAL TO HISPANICS: don’t (pander, that is).

HIGH SPEED RAIL, high speed waste.

IT’S MORE THAN ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: Mexico is losing its war with drug cartels. Military force is going to be required - on both sides of the border.

HOW NOT TO CREATE JOBS: spend more money.

A PHILIPPINE COAST GUARD SHIP finds five Americans who were reported missing after their sailboat experienced engine trouble.

Yes, I know most large sailboats have auxiliary engines, but still ....

THE REAL political parties. You can guess which is which.

Linked from Instapundit.

STATE OF THE UNION: “ ‘Spending our way out of debt’ will remain the long-term strategy — at least until it all comes crashing down.”

Snide - but correct - comment here.

I’D LIKE TO BELIEVE it's desperation, but if there’s any doubt, bet on greed.

AUTONOMOUS QUADCOPTERS work together to build structures. The video features a team of autonomous quad-rotor helicopters "working from a preset algorithm ... constructing a cubic tower structure using specially designed parts that snap together via magnets when placed in the proper arrangement."



The original video is here.

WASHINGTON POST organizes news boycott of Sarah Palin; starts Twitter campaign against GOP star. This after Post columnist Dana Milbank declares February “a Palin-free month.”

This will last only until Palin’s next Facebook post. Will she cooperate?

CORPORATE WELFARE: In Maryland, legislative "mandates for renewable energy force utilities to drop cheaper sources of power, which keep your monthly bills affordable, for higher cost renewables."

You pay, Google wins.

SARAH PALIN’S ALASKA: the real reality show.

PAUL GREENBERG: On Rule by Experts.

Die quickly, before Dr. Berwick - and ObamaCare - can get its hands on you.

WHERE ARE THE GROWNUPS? ’Gun’ hand gesture gets Oklahoma 1st-grader suspended.

It’s clear where the grownup aren’t - in charge of our schools.

My favorite comments:

Did the kid shoot hoops too?

And

“Shoot” hoops?! See, that’s the kind of vitriolic, incendiary rhetoric that we’re trying to stamp out of our public discourse. Let’s all try for a more civil society. Aim higher!

And

Was his hand loaded?

Are there even any grownups left in education?

COLLECTIVE BARGAINING and government service are a bad mix. No kidding. And adding binding arbitration to the mix merely makes a bad situation worse.

FIASCO FOLLOWS GOVERNMENT DIKTAT: Ed Driscoll writes on government intervention.

BACK DOOR ABORTION: Rahm Emanuel on the Stupak amendment that allowed Obamacare to pass.

Unbridled hypocrisy. And (former) Rep. Stupak fell for it.

WHEN IT COMES TO COFFEE, Starbucks and the Washington Examiner agree: Forget the War on Obesity.

OBAMA SPENDS nearly half his presidency outside Washington. I'd think the President should be in Washington most of the time, but with Obama maybe it would be better to keep him away ....

HEH.