THE HELLO KITTY: super federal budget calculator. Shadow likes it.

Linked from Instapundit.

FUNDING HINGES ON CLEARER NASA VISION? It's time to stop planning and start doing. Congress and the President need to pick a goal and stick with it, or get out of the way and quit interfering.

THE DOWNGRADE: a rebuke Obama richly deserved.

AND DEMOCRACY IT ISN'T: Obama Advocates For New Form Of Government For America.

OVER-REGULATION? What over-regulation? Notice an Obama administration theme beginning to emerge? If we can't get higher taxes, we'll get the money by imposing mandatory "fees".

PETA wants future Mars colony to be vegan. I'd support that if all PETA members were required to move to Mars.

IF PEOPLE HAD JOBS, they'd be less likely to vote for a welfare state: Why the President Doesn’t Present a Bold Plan to Create Jobs and Jumpstart the Economy.

FACTS DON'T MATTER; it's the narrative.

JAPANESE RESEARCHERS levitate train on a cushion of air.


A video of a prototype is at the link.

MICHELLE MALKIN provides a well-deserved slap to the face of the mainstream media.

MORE RANDOM THOUGHTS:

Taxpayer: someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert , in five years there'd be a shortage of sand. ~ Milton Friedman

From my email.

KICK ASS and take names. A most excellent 'fisking' of a Der Spiegel editorialist.

EXCELLENT: EPA set to miss deadline on ozone rules.

DEER IN THE HEADLIGHTS: and that truck is getting mighty close.

A WARNING TO EARTH? Get your act together lest I decide to start over.

WE CAN HOPE: "The GOP holding onto the Wisconsin Senate is a major blow to Big Labor, maybe their biggest setback in a generation. The big unions will not go quietly, but go they will, eventually."

"THE HARDEST OBSTACLE to overcome will be the idea that anyone who challenges the prevailing consensus of the past 50 years is irrational and irresponsible. That is what is being said about the Tea Partiers. In fact, what is irrational and irresponsible is the assumption that we can go on as we are."

I KNOW TEXAS IS A BIG STATE, but Antartica is a part of Texas?

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Crashing Chariot of Our Young Phaethon.

WE SHOULD BE SO LUCKY: Should Obama Resign?