MAXINE WATERS: "The Tea Party Can Go Straight to Hell." Save us a seat by the fire, Maxine.

RASMUSSEN, 22 August 2011.


It's not (yet) a new low.

ANOTHER UNSCIENTIFIC POLL: Click through the tabs to see what Washington Times readers think.

JEFF JACOBY: When 'inconsequential' means 'better'.

ANOTHER CASE OF PROJECTION from those who believe money comes from printing presses.

WASHINGTON POST columnist Alexandra Petri thinks it's 'cute' to slap around rural post offices and their patrons.

Well, I have a suggestion. Since cities and major urban areas are so well wired (and "wirelessed'), lets close down all the urban post offices and replace them with ATM-like kiosks in the Starbucks latte lounges.

PUNCHING BACK TWICE AS HARD: The Special Litigation Section Strikes Out.

YA THINK? Maybe Ed Schultz is the racist.

AMERICA HAS BECOME A TRAIN with too many cabooses and not enough engines, and our government is riding the brakes with anti-competitive taxes and regulations.

Read it all.

A NEW OBAMA MANDATE: agreeable jobs.

FUZZY MATH: Delusions of grand expenditures.

It is amazing the way the establishment media has largely overlooked the fact that more than half of the Democrats voted against the budget-ceiling compromise, for the most part, because they did not like even the small cutbacks in spending. But a smaller percentage of Republicans voted against the bill because they correctly saw it as insufficient to deal with the budget problem, and yet they are called “delusional.” Who are the ones really denying reality?

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MARK STEYN on the Imperial Presidency.

HEH: Costco to Remove Electric Car Chargers Because Nobody's Using Them.

Could it be that people who shop at Costco can't afford them?

A SAD DAY for U.S. wheat growers.

RAHN: Democracy’s spending curse. We're already at the tipping point -- if not beyond.

CORRECTION: "He thinks he's the smartest guy in the room...."

WOMAN: supersize me. 20,000 (government-subsidized) calories a day. [Eyeball warning: the link contains pictures.]

THE 'KILLER RABBIT' STRIKES AGAIN: when you've lost Charles Blow, you've lost.

DEROY MURDOCK: Hope, change and free birth-control pills. "Thanks to Obamacare, Americans 'with cancer, a heart ailment, or a major injury will face co-pays and deductibles, but anyone who wants to go on the Pill or rent breastfeeding equipment won’t incur any personal cost - and nobody will be free to decide otherwise.'"

POWER LINE: the oblivious vacationeer.