JEFF JACOBY: Is America the world's policeman? Maybe, but only to the extent that the U.S. restricts itself to enforcement and forgoes any nation-building/social justice roles.

YOUR TRANSPORTATION FUTURE


Don't plan on children.

WHY OBAMA WON'T BE REELECTED:


The world awaits ....

HE MADE IT WORSE. "Obama inherited financial collapse, deficits and debt. He inherited a broken political culture. These things weren't his fault. But through his decisions, he made them all worse."

Read it all.

I AM A DEMOCRAT; I am clueless.


College Republicans respond.

THAT'S THE FIRST TIME I've ever given a Republican speech from a Democratic platform.

YOU NEED "adult politicians to have an adult conversation about Social Security."

"Adult politician" is an oxymoron. Leave off the "adult" part and it would just be a moron.

JOURNALISTS should be able to do fourth-grade mathematics.

In a Washington Times article (Bachmann firm on foster role, June 27th, dead tree edition only, fortunately for her) article about Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, Cheryl Wetzstein wrote:

Mrs. Clements should know: In addition to her years of experience with Lutheran Social Serivice of the South, she and her husband, Bill, have fostered 127 children over 27 years - or more than 10 times Mrs. Bachmann's tally (emphasis mine).

Mrs. Bachmann has used several phrases to describe her foster parenting of 23 teenagers ....

Now I've only got a PhD in engineering, but the last time I checked 10 times 23 (230 for the math-impaired) is just a wee bit more than 127.

IF YOU WORK IN THE COMMERCIAL SECTOR, your health insurance (or more correctly, health care) is at risk. Surprised? I'm not.

DO AS I SAY, not as I do.

PRESIDENT OBAMA ‘Becoming an Absolute Monarch’. From a deep-blue Democrat, no less.

"THE PRESIDENT and his trusted advisers are the products of the atrocious, politically correct educational system that’s wrecking the country in so many ways. And it’s very worrisome. It’s part of the Orwellian universe that envelops many of our leaders, a universe in which they feel free to simply invent 'facts' so long as they fit the emotional and ideological pattern that really matters to the elite."

MR. KELLY GOES TO WASHINGTON.



Rep. Kelly represents the 3rd District in Pennsylvania. Call and thank him.

HOSPITALS courting primary-care doctors. So you can expect your insurance copays to jump to the emergency-room levels and enjoy the tender ministrations of the registration martinets.

Lucky you.

FLIGHT RISK FOR BOEING: "The NLRB’s move ... substitutes the government’s judgment for that of the company. This is neither good law nor good business."

You don't say....

SPYING ON SATELLITES: "[C]onsidering how hard the intelligence community works to keep details of its space arsenal under wraps, it’s not hard to imagine the two Frenchmen have pissed off a lot of spooks unaccustomed to having regular people spy back."

I doubt the intelligence community is terribly worried about their satellites being tracked even though the image quality is quite good (the "processed" video of the ISS is spectacular).

MICHAEL BARONE: Government Looks to Past, Free Enterprise to Future.

"WHEN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION last week released the results of the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress -- 'the Nation's Report Card' -- the bottom line was depressingly predictable: Not even a quarter of American students is proficient in US history, and the percentage declines as students grow older. Only 20 percent of 6th graders, 17 percent of 8th graders, and 12 percent of high school seniors demonstrate a solid grasp on their nation's history. In fact, American kids are weaker in history than in any of the other subjects tested by the NAEP -- math, reading, science, writing, civics, geography, and economics."

Depressing, though I am a little surprised that civics did better than history in the assessment.

KNOW HOW TO MAKE GOD LAUGH? Make plans.

The best plan for a president to improve the economy is to get the hell out of the way.

INCENTIVES MATTER. Some are positive; others, not so much.