PREPARE YOURSELF for the State of the Union address tonight.



The GOP SOTU web site is here.

WHY WOULDN’T business owners ‘go Galt’? They are ... just last night my wife and I talked to a (now part-time employee) of a small excavation business that used to be located on property a quarter-mile or so from our house. The owner closed his business, sold all his equipment, leased his home, and moved back to southern Virginia to reopen as a much smaller operation with a few part-time employees. Keeping a bigger operation simply wasn’t worth the effort.

WHY SHOULD WE? Obama officials say we don’t trust government enough.

ON A CLEAR DAY you can use your smartphone.

HEH: “Chuck Norris is a columnist and impossible to kill.” More seriously, he endorses Newt Gingrich for President.

THOMAS SOWELL: “Intellectuals have all too often promoted these envy and resentment ideologies. There are both psychic and material rewards for the intelligentsia in doing so, even when the supposed beneficiaries of these ideologies end up worse off. When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”

WHITE DRESS SHIRTS are racist -- if worn by a Republican.

DEMOCRATS’ ENERGY POLICY: “reasonable profits” boards for energy companies. OK, let’s ask two questions: (1) Are “reasonable profits” the same for green energy companies as for conventional energy companies? And (2) if green energy companies fail to make “reasonable profits”, will they be subsidized so they do?

CRONY CAPITALISM: gouging citizens one regulation at a time.

TEN REASONS why we must vote for President Obama.

DAY BY DAY on the value of the mainstream media.

PRESIDENTIAL NONSENSE: Obama’s economic vision.

President Obama's vision was shared by our Pilgrim Fathers of the Plymouth Colony in modern-day Massachusetts. They established a communist system. They all farmed together, and whatever they produced was put in a common storehouse. A certain amount of food was rationed to each person regardless of his contribution to the work. Many Pilgrims complained that they were too weak from hunger to do their share of the work. As deeply religious as the Pilgrims were, they took to stealing from one another. Gov. William Bradford, writing his history of the colony in "Of Plymouth Plantation," said, "So as it well appeared that famine must still ensue, the next year also if not some way prevented."

And history tells us they damn near died that first year.

CAN’T HAVE RELIGION IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE: Missing from the Martin Luther King Memorial -- God.

AN IGNORED DISPARITY: credentials versus marketable skills.

[C]olleges and universities can ... turn out vast numbers of people with credentials, but with no marketable skills with which to fulfill their expectations. There is nothing magic about simply being in ivy-covered buildings for four years.

In countries around the world, people with credentials but no marketable skills have been a major source of political turmoil, social polarization and ideologically driven violence, sometimes escalating into civil war.

Read it all.

THE FOOD STAMP PRESIDENT:


Read more here.

THE U.S. HAS BEEN WITHOUT A BUDGET during the entire Obama administration -- and now this. Budget? We don’t need no steenkin’ budget ... we’ll just print more money.

PRESIDENT OBAMA reveals who he really is -- and the picture isn't pretty.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The 2012 Election Circus.

RANDOM THOUGHTS from the retirement lane.

"The buck stops here" -- Harry Truman
"The buck punts here" -- Barack Obama

AND CHURCHES SUPPORT THESE BOOBS? Sometimes charity goes too far.