TEA PARTIERS are stupid Americans.

THIS IS WHAT AMERICA NEEDS. My vote will go to the Republican candidate who presents the most optimistic message.

THE REAL BITTER CLINGERS.

FACTS DON'T MATTER to Democrats. They believe in rainbows and unicorns.

AL GORE needs the peace and quiet of a padded cell.

OBAMA'S MESSAGE: Hey, it's not a depression. But he's working on it.

SHOULD CONGRESS RETURN? Well, there's plenty to be done, for sure, but frankly I think I'd rather they stayed away until after the 2012 elections. The risk of them doing something bad outweighs the risk of them doing nothing.

EVEN THE BIGGEST GUN isn't terribly fearsome when it's out of bullets.

A SUGGESTION for the Tea Party: "Since Reuters and other establishment media types embrace the moral relativism of the 'one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter' nonsense, why not hoist them with their own petard, and start referring to 'Tea Party freedom fighters'?"

THE BEST POLITICAL AD YET. And he's not (yet) a candidate.

CAN WASHINGTON do anything about jobs? Well, yes, they're pretty good at destroying them.

AS I'VE LONG SUSPECTED: the market long ago factored Obama's total incompetence into their business strategy and are now totally ignoring him.

HERE'S AN INTERESTING ARTICLE about a potential commercial race to the moon. I'm impressed by the inventiveness of the entrepreneurs, but they've missed a possibility from Heinlein's novel The Man Who Sold the Moon: selling the right to place advertising on the lunar surface. Heinlein sold the right to not advertise; but I suspect advertising would be more lucrative.

JUAN WILLIAMS: Is Ann Coulter right about the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King?

You have to give Coulter points for shrewdly using the words of one black liberal civil rights icon to indict another liberal black liberal civil rights icon. She has a conservative agenda and she is a world-class provocateur who knows how to inflame her liberal critics.

Coulter and I disagree most of the time, especially on her regular use of harsh, partisan hyperbolic language to caricature people. Her tirades against liberals get lots of media attention and sell books but they overshadow the serious insights she has into American history. And when Ann is right, Ann can be devastatingly right.

Read it all.

I'VE GOT AN IDEA: Let's air drop them over the Mid-East and let them put their violent tendencies to good use.

CARTOON OF THE DAY.


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CAN CONTRACTORS COME ALONG? Boeing Workers Will Fly to ISS Aboard Their Company's New Spaceship.

ORIGIN OF THE DEBT SHOWDOWN: Of course it was all the Tea Party's fault.

And it wouldn't have happened if the then-majority Democrats had voted to raise the debt ceiling before the new Congress convened. Big mistake.

FOR THE FIRST TIME in Obama’s national political career, [he has] an opponent who can fight back.

ELECTION 2012: Let the ballot-stuffing begin.