THEY'RE SCARED: The rise of the totalitarians. This is from Australia, but it's equally true here.

56% THINK AMERICA IS OVERTAXED. That's down (!) from 66% two years ago. Is that a result of Obama's continuously demagoging 'the rich'? Or, as an Instapundit reader suggests, does it represent the declining number of actual taxpayers?

BILL MAHER: Santorum homeschools his kids because he wants them locked up in his “Christian madrassa”. If Maher is a typical example of public schooling, I'd home-school myself.

GOOD NEWS from England's health care system: "If we ever do get single payer, government health care on this side of the Atlantic, we won’t have to worry about all those death panels critics keep warning us about. Given the bureaucratic delays and inefficiencies in the system, patients can be confident that, abused and neglected as they will be in government-run nursing homes, they will die of old age before the death panels ever meet."

NATURALLY: Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan speaks at University of California, Berkeley.

RANDOM THOUGHTS from the retirement lane. I just paid $61 for a skosh over 15 gallons of regular today. I can now understand why some prefer to stay on welfare to work; the cost of gasoline is so high that low-wage workers probably lose money by working if they have to drive.

DON'T CAMPAIGN while driving. Running over your voters is not a good election strategy. Neither is turning your Mercedes into scrap iron ....

UPDATE: "the first Democrat to throw himself under the bus."

RANDOM THOUGHTS from the retirement lane: the only 'product' liberal arts graduates seem to be able to produce is whine.

SPLC [SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER] has been an incredibly successful organization. It has consistently solved the poverty problems of its directors....

TAXI MEDALLIONS -- brute protectionism.

A THOUGHT on Daylight Saving Time:

MORE TAXPAYER MONEY wasted to bring 3000 granite countertops to Los Angeles. All in the name of 'art'.

'WE CAN'T WAIT!' Yes, we can.

TOP HEAVY.

NO NEED to be multilingual: Dana Perino (FOX News) describing an interview she recently had with a Navy SEAL.

After discussing all the countries that he had been sent to, she asked if they had to learn several languages. "No ma'am, we don't go there to talk."

From my email.

OCCUPY WALL STREET needs bailout. Wasn't that why they 'occupied' Wall Street?

RANDOM THOUGHTS: Obamaland is much like Disneyland. There's ...

MainStreet, where the bible-thumping gun lovers live;

FantasyLand, where all good liberals and progressives live, with unicorns and rainbows for all;

TomorrowLand, where automobiles will run on unicorn droppings, algae, and natural gas;

FrontierLand, where liberals and progressives send their surrogates to blow things up; and

AdventureLand, where liberals and progressives go for vacation.

What's not to like?

MICHELLE MALKIN: Government Subsidized ‘Affordable’ Green Bulb Coming Soon to a Store Near You.

My house contains over 70 conventional light sockets. While I rarely have more than 7 or 8 lights actually turned on at any given time, replacing all the bulbs with energy-efficient 'green' LED bulbs would cost me about $3,500.

Do I look like a fool?

MICHAEL BARONE: Are 'the rich' for Romney?

COUGH DROPS, the mandate.