MORE PLEASE: South Carolina taking on Fed’s light bulb ban. Why not? Fair’s fair; the federal government has been ignoring us for years, it’s time to ignore them for a change.

ON MEDICARE, President Obama and his party [have] a chance to reclaim the low ground, and they haven’t hesitated. I was unaware they ever lost the low ground.

SURE, YOU UNDERSTAND MY PROBLEMS: “What? You’re driving me back to the airport in Sao Paulo, in all that traffic? Don’t I rate a helicopter?”

YOU FLY, you die.

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) All Things Nuclear blog has an analysis of how many deaths occurred at Chernobyl based on linear no threshold view of radiation. So 0.01 milliSieverts (1 milliRem) for each of 6 billion people in the world is calculated to add 4000 deaths from cancer. 0.3 milliSieverts (30 milliRem) for 500 million people in europe is calculated to add 9000 more deaths from cancer.

Using the same analysis (NEI Nuclear Notes) found that, 79,000 and 40,000 would be reasonable estimates of the number of excess cancers and cancer deaths attributable to the flying in the past decade. The numbers increase even more over the 25 years since Chernobyl and would be 200,000 excess cancers and 100,000 excess deaths from commercial aviation over the last 25 years.

Isn’t it interesting that the only risks unacceptable to the nanny-staters are those that they can use to put themselves in control?

OBAMA GOT BIN LADEN just like Nixon reached the moon. The Obama administration’s churlish behavior has been noticed in other quarters as well.

IF YOU WANT to live with angry, intolerant, narrow-minded, mean-spirited people who act aggressive if you don’t agree with their views, move to California.

MEDICARE ISN’T THE PROBLEM, and more control is the solution. Robert Reich was born in 1946, so he will be eligible for Medicare in June. I wonder how he'll feel about 'more control' when he becomes the 'controlee'? Or will he opt out? Reich is rich enough - my bet is on the latter (that way won’t interfere with his progressive beliefs).

SIX REASONS why Latinos may stay home on election day. I think Navarette is wrong in his interpretation, for the reason that he seems to see everything through a racial lens. The fact is that wanting to control immigration is not racist, and just because Latinos are most affected does not make it so. That said, however, I do agree that Latinos do have a right to be steamed with the Obama administration. They would be well advised to work with the Republicans to close the borders to illegal immigration in order to open up the borders to legal immigration.

Read the comments, especially the one by pelao y-y.

IN THE LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT, the cream rarely rises to the top. From my experience, what Dunphy describes is common to all government-sector employment where there is no product for sale, no product to be made. It is also true in the commercial sector, but the profit incentive tends to turn the “screw-up, move-up’s” out more rapidly.

NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: Years Ago, Sarah Palin Was Recruited As A Moderate.

Then she dropped her subscription.

ANN COULTER: ”Following the Democratic playbook, Obama's overall approach to national security is to pointlessly fling our influence and military around the globe ... with no evident national security purpose.”

THE ONLY FOG IN THIS WAR is in the White House.

TORTURING TERRORISTS IS SO ABHORRENT for the Obama administration that they’d rather kill them from drones. It’s so much less messy that way.

BLOWING SMOKE? Frankly, I doubt it; "blowing smoke" presumes some minimal level of competence.

PRESIDENT PANETTA? I truly hate to write this, but this article rings true. Read it all.

THE FIRST STEP to solving a problem is identifying it.

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: the law only means what we want it to mean.

Link from Instapundit.

WASHINGTON POST READERS respond to a snooty elitist "foodie."

IT WAS all McDonald's fault. That should make the Left happy.

THE NEW YORK TIMES can't lose what it never had. Follow the link.