"TAKING IT OUT" is not a firing offense. Maybe not, but it should be a shooting offense.

STAR PARKER: Land of the Free Envious and Home of the Brave Victim.

INCENTIVES MATTER: There is no free lunch in subsidy programs.

WELL, YES. Is a Car Salesman More Honest Than a Congressman? And we're probably giving car salesmen a bad rap.

WHY SMALL GOVERNMENT MATTERS:

Washington D.C. attracts a seemingly infinite number of special interests and advocacy groups lobbying for federal policies crafted to enrich them. Many of these groups have names that ring of high principle and social responsibility, regardless of the merit of their actual goals.

Read the whole thing.

OF COURSE: "In a re-elect, all you're really doing is trying to destroy the other guy."

MILLIONAIRES DON'T CREATE JOBS, unemployment checks do.

ANOTHER OBSERVATION from the retired lane: Why is it that the champions of progessivism are always the ones who will be least affected by the policies they champion?

DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: the gift (to Republicans) that keeps on giving.

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.