THE BUBBLE IS BURSTING: UNLV to Fire Tenured Faculty, Close Schools in Face of 'Fiscal Collapse'.

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ALASKA GOVERNOR refuses to implement Obamacare.

TENNESSEE follows Wisconsin’s lead.

DEMOCRATS ON THE RUN. First they left Wisconsin in order to prevent a state senate vote by denying a quorum. They were found in Rockford, IL; now they’re leaving for ”undisclosed locations.” Guess where they were staying in Rockford.

Hypocrisy, thy name is ... well, you get the idea.

THE WISCONSIN PROTESTS: “I’m interested in seeing who shows up Saturday to protest -- to see if the protestors are willing to protest on personal, unpaid time.” -- Marty H.

AND IN MY FORMER HOME TOWN, TOO: "In walks the village idiot, and his face is all aglow." Good imagery.

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CAMERAS: weapons of mass dissemination.

PUBLIC SECTOR UNION PROTEST IN WISCONSIN. Madison schools close for the day to allow teachers to protest Gov. Scott Walker’s union-busting budget plan. Then there’s this.


An Instapundit reader comments: “What do you think would happen if a student in a public school called the principal a dictator and put crosshairs on his face?”

More on the trashing of the Wisconsin State Capitol here.

Disgusting. Just plain disgusting. The Governor should pull a Reagan and fire 'em all. There are plenty of better-qualified unemployed in Wisconsin to more than fill the vacancies.

LEFTIST THOUGHTS on the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Then, of course, there was the enormous human cost to the collapse (increased mortality, a decline in longevity, and massive economic and thus human dislocation and suffering). Finally, certain other world-historic crimes, such as the U.S. war of aggression against Iraq, are unlikely to have occurred if the Soviet Union had remained intact.

Feh! So according to them, it’s better to live a long life in slavery than a shorter life in freedom.

Linked from Instapundit.

JEFF JACOBY: Retire the racial bean-counters.

Racial criteria are irrational, irrelevant, [and] odious to our way of life.
-- Thurgood Marshall, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1967-1991)

And save a bundle of bucks, too.

THE RUSSIAN SPACE AGENCY suggested Monday that a foreign power may have been behind the space accident that disabled one of the country's most modern military satellites earlier this month.

Stuxnet, anyone?

MORE RACISM from the Left.

Anyone who doesn't understand that the progressive left is, at its core, racist is a dunce.

[Update] Violently racist.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW about our ruling class.

HERE’S ANOTHER CONUNDRUM FOR YOU: While listening to the radio this morning, I heard a business analyst type explaining that the unemployment rate would be unlikely to go down anytime soon because manufacturers have found that they can produce as much - or more - with fewer workers than they could pre-recession; therefore there is no incentive to hire more workers.

On the other hand, Social Security is in such bad shape that there is serious talk of both increasing FICA taxes and retirement ages.

Isn’t there just a bit of a disconnect here? What’s the net gain to raising employment taxes and retirement ages on people who are increasingly likely to be permanently unemployed?

SARAH PALIN: The truth behind the White House/s budget spin.

AXE BEATS SCALPEL -- by a factor of nearly 10 to 1.

GLOBAL HAWK orders cut to pay for sensor fix. Yep. It’s the sensors that cost the real money. The aircraft is just a truck.

PUNISH MISUSERS OF BODY SCANNER IMAGES.

[An] amendment by Sens. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to an aviation bill pending in the Senate was approved 98-0 [that] would prohibit anyone with access to the scanned body images, whether security personnel or members of the public, from photographing or disseminating those images. Besides a prison term, violators could be fined up to $100,000 per violation.

So what’s the point? Beyond moral preening, that is. Does anyone with a lick of common sense (there’s that common sense word again. --Ed.) seriously believe that even the most egregious violation will ever be punished by imprisonment or a $100K fine?

THE OBAMA BUDGET: Life is short, eat dessert first. “His policies are all about self-indulgence in the present, to be paid for with either long-run economic decline, or painful sacrifices by future generations.”

Cut the damn budget. It’s too late for a scalpel; it’s time for an axe.

UNCLE SAM charges up electric cars. I dislike saying it, but “I told you so.”