OBAMA CAN'T WIN REELECTION. So, will he walk?

IF YOU DREW a straight line between the Obama White House, Harvard and Martha's Vineyard, you'd apparently find no real economists.

OBAMA: earthquake epicenter along the "Bush fault."

GOTTA PAY THE RENT: the bait-and-switch environmental swindle.

IT LOOKED LIKE the students gathered in an MIT lecture hall last Tuesday morning were randomly cheering while footage of an astronaut floating in space with little round robots played on a projector overhead. In actuality, the students were going head-to-head in a robotics competition unfolding on the International Space Station in real time.

THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE is officially dead. And -- miracle of miracles -- on Obama's watch.

OBAMA'S SPECIFIC PLAN: just an outline?

RANDOM THOUGHT: It will be an outline. Obama thinks he is an Emperor, not a President. Emperors don't do work, they issue decrees.

EARTHQUAKE: We had an earthquake here in Manassas shortly before 2 p.m. The cats and dog noticed it first, and skedaddled for the house on the run. When I heard it, it was a loud rumbling sound, much like an unmuffled race car might sound when idling. I did not feel the ground shake, but our porch is 'on stilts' so to speak, so any vibration was probably damped. The only visible impact in the house was the ceiling fans swaying slightly. The quake lasted, start to finish, perhaps 20-30 seconds.

My wife was at LaGuardia airport in New York; she felt nothing. However, my daughter in Stamford CT did feel the earthquake, as did a friend of hers in Boston.

GUN OWNERS: What are you compensating for? Instapundit has the perfect response.

ADD A NEW LOW to the Obama Approval Index: it's now at -26; two points lower than his previous 'record'.


Here's the link to Rasmussen's Daily Presidential Tracking Poll.

HMM. LABOR CONTRIBUTIONS to Democratic candidates down from 2010.

THE END OF AN ERA: Shuttle program to officially end on August 31.

WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE between a Federal Jobs Creation Program and Kim Kardashian's wedding? The answer is here.

[Added] For what it's worth, Klavan's commentary strikes me as a perfect analogy for what the Left has derisively called "trickle down" economics.

IF I WERE (A LIBERAL) PRESIDENT: I would make more plans, spend more money, and educate indoctrinate our children. Click on the pictures to see their "ideas." Be prepared to graon.

GONE TO FLOWERS, every one.

HAH: Koch Responds to Buffett's Call for Tax Hikes.

MARK STEYN: "Not only does the president’s left hand not know what the right hand is even supposed to do, but his left hand cannot even issue a cheap self-serving whine about something his right hand has failed to do without blowing gazillions of taxpayer dollars."

YOU CAN'T make this claptrap up: "The administration says it is giving rich kids free food to eliminate the shame that less-fortunate students may feel in receiving free food."

Giving? Or forcing?

EXXON FIGHTING regulatory “pirates” in Gulf of Mexico.

"Regulatory pirates." What an appropriate turn of phrase to describe the Obama administration's hyper-overregulation of the American economy.

OBAMA QUIT? We should encourage the idea.