SO THEY WILL MOVE TO VIRGINIA: Maryland passes income tax hike on six-figure earners.

RUN FOR THE HILLS: Yet another study informs us of the imminent end of life as we know it. And the solution is .... renewables! I wonder when -- if ever -- the eco-zealots will come to realize that coal and oil are 'renewable', just over a longer time period, and continue to renew themselves every day the sun continues to shine.

THIS IS GETTING OLD: Obama budget fails again.

OBAMA CALLS debt ceiling fight “not acceptable.” So now he's what ... Miss Manners?

RI-I-I-I-GHT: "this time 'reform' will accomplish everything its advocates dream of."

THE DECISION LAST YEAR to finally cancel the UK’s National Program for Information Technology effort to implement a nation-wide integrated electronic health record (EHR) system because of its spiraling cost and complexity is looking better all the time.

Lesson yet unlearned: research & development doesn't proceed according to politicians' orders.

THE WEEKLY STANDARD: The Democrats' clientelism problem. Boiled down to essentials, the bumper sticker equivalent is "VOTE FOR OBAMA and you'll get free stuff!"

More here.

DEMOCRAT FOR OPEN BORDERS: in, not out.

THE 'BIRTHER' BOMBSHELL has arrived. Well, that should clear the air of 'jobs, jobs, jobs' for a few days at least.

WHAT! He's a narcissist? Who'da thunk it?

OUTTA' HERE: How California's budget blunders led to my divorce from the Golden State. I'm waiting for Victor Davis Hanson to announce he's leaving. When that happens, we'll know California is beyond redemption.

JUST MOVE ALONG NOW; no voter fraud here.

ENTITLEMENT BANDITS -- How to curb Medicare and Medicaid fraud.

JULIA: the uninvited house guest.

I HAD POSTED on this earlier, but 'fractionated' satellites is just too good a phrase to pass up.

ISN'T THE UN built on Indian land? Give them Turtle Bay back and allow them to charge the UN rent.

IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY, Narcissus gazed into a pond and saw Obama's face.

SPACE-X cleared for launch Saturday.

OBAMA BY THE NUMBERS.

PROOF THAT THERE IS LIFE AFTER DEATH: 53,000 Dead Voters Found in Florida.