MARK STEYN on the Wisconsin public union kerfuffle:

That's what "collective bargaining" is about: It enables unions rather than citizens to set the price of government. It is, thus, a direct assault on republican democracy, and it needs to be destroyed. Unlovely as they are, the Greek rioters and the snarling thugs of Madison are the logical end point of the advanced social democratic state: not an oppressed underclass, but a spoiled overclass, rioting in defense of its privileges and insisting on more subsidy, more benefits, more featherbedding, more government.

Correct.

HOW DID YOUR CONGRESSMAN vote on HR1 (the budget bill)? My congresscritter, Frank Wolf (VA-10) didn't do so well. He's going to hear from me and I'll be looking for a replacement in 2012.

DONALD RUMSFELD flummoxes MSNBC interviewer Andrea Mitchell. This is why I like Rumsfeld.

MORE: I saw Rumsfeld on O'Reilly last night. He had O'Reilly on the defensive as well. Here are three exerpts from the interview.

DEMOCRATS just don't understand the new populism.

IT'S ALL ABOUT CONTROL.

You are too dumb to make the proper decisions, so the medical community wants to make indoor tanning illegal for your minor children.

The American Medical Association doesn’t want you to know about your own DNA, since you're not competent to understand what it means.

Bull.

SMASHING the Democratic/media narrative.

VISION STATEMENTS for visionaries. My feelings exactly. "Vision statements" are bland, feel-good, vacuous mush of no use whatever.

A LOOK BACK: Public unions are giving thugs a bad name.

TRACKING THE PULSE of the Tea Party movement.

The 2012 election season is heating up. There are many potential Presidential candidates, and we will make the bold prediction that every single Republican will attempt to gain the support of the tea party movement. But which candidates do this powerful grassroots movement really support?

This poll gauges such support using a unique “run-off” matchup model. It is designed to elicit deeper preferences from voters and make it much more difficult for well-organized campaigns to “game” the system. The results reflects the percentage of times a candidate was preferred in a head-to-head “run-off” against other potential candidates. We also suspect they more accurately reflect the true pulse of the tea party movement than those cited by the mainstream media.

Take the straw poll.

THE TEDIOUS ANNOYING COMPLAINTS of public radio listeners. There's a simple no-cost solution. Quit listening - and stop funding public radio.

Linked from Instapundit.

TRAIN WRECK? Not necessarily.

[P]ollster Scott Rasmussen reports that 58 percent of likely voters would rather have a government shutdown until both parties can agree on spending cuts, while only 33 percent would prefer spending at the same levels as last year.

The train wreck will be if the Republicans falter and choose not to take an ax to the budget.

WISCONSIN ETHICS BOARD: Democrats can use campaign funds to pay for life on lam.

And who supplies the Democrats’ campaign coffers? Unions, perhaps?

BRITISH PRIME MINISTER DAVID CAMERON: how a real leader speaks. Mr. Obama should take note.

FAA OKAYS iPAD for pilot’s charts.

WHO THE HELL is this twit?

“A” IS FOR AGITATION: “The goals of the teachers union machine are not academic excellence, professional development and fairness.... The goals are student indoctrination, social upheaval and perpetual agitation in pursuit of bigger government and spending without restraint.”

MICHAEL MOORE: Wealthy Americans’ Money is a ‘National Resource'. “This is why the wealthy filmmaker has taken the unprecedented step of posting his bank account numbers online so all Americans can have access to the vital national resource that is ‘our’ money.” What? He didn’t do that? Aww ...

UNION POWER, by the numbers.

This should disabuse you of the myth that unions are “paltry players” when compared to the business lobbies. Oh, and by the way, even the non-union “big players” contribute predominately to Democrats.

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MORE UNION CIVILITY. You have to wonder what kind of people raised these thuggish brats.

WHY KOCH INDUSTRIES IS SPEAKING OUT: Crony capitalism and bloated government prevent entrepreneurs from producing the products and services that make people's lives better.