FEAR OF BIG GOVERNMENT at near-record level. Well, Obama did say he would bring us together.

BUMPER STICKER of the year.


From my email.

FINALLY. Patience wanes with Occupy DC protest: "McPherson Square will be a toxic waste dump for the next couple of years."

THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA? NASA OKs launch of private space station trip.

MICHAEL BARONE: campaign risks. He's right on Obama, but on Gingrich I think Barone underestimates the electorate's disdain for the political establishment, Republican as well as Democrat.

EUROPEAN POLITICIANS are so incompetent they can’t figure out how to do the wrong thing. American politicians have figured out how to do the wrong thing; does that mean they're smarter or dumber than European politicians?

GINGRICH: Let's mine the moon. Maybe there is gold 'in them thar hills'.

WHO ARE THE ONE PERCENT? I'd suggest looking at the OWS slackers.

ANOTHER OBSERVATION from the retired lane: it is impossible to appreciate the efficiency of a cat to turn something valuable (food) into something less valuable (fertilizer) until you have to clean the litter box.

KRAUTHAMMER ON OBAMA: "He is more like Hugo Chávez than he is Teddy Roosevelt."

OBAMA: "I didn't overpromise." Really?

Here's the quote that bothers me most:

The problem is that our politics has gotten to the point, where we can’t have an honest conversation about the greatest income inequality since the 1920s. And we can’t have an honest conversation about the irresponsibility that resulted in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, without somebody saying that somehow we’re being divisive.

To Obama and his acolytes, an 'honest conversation' is one where all agree he's right.

DIM ENERGY FUTURE: The Coming American Darkness. You may have to register -- it's free.

TEA PARTY TO REPUBLICANS: this time you dance to our tune.

THE DISCOURAGING UNEMPLOYMENT PICTURE. But, but ... the unemployment rate dropped to 8.6% last month!

LIGHTSQUARED: If you're a farmer, your internet is more important than GPS guidance for your farm equipment.

SHOULD DEMOCRATS abandon the millionaire surtax? Right now, the vote is 9 to 1 in favor. Of course US News leans right, but I suspect that this also means that Republicans "punching back twice as hard" is beginning to work.

ARE CONSERVATIVES happier than liberals? Yes, but obviously they're too stupid to know they should be unhappy.

CAUGHT BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: ‘Gays Have Got to Be Pro-Life‘ Because ’Liberal Yuppies‘ Would Abort ’Homosexual’ Babies.

HMM. Satellite images reveal secret Nevada UAV site.

ARE CONSERVATIVES happier than liberals? Obviously, because they're too stupid to know they should be unhappy.