BIG GOVERNMENT RUN AMOK? In Oregon, man faces jail for collecting rainwater on his own property.

INSTAPUNDIT should have titled this post 'All your boobs are belong to mikey'. It would have been accurate in both senses of the word 'boob'.

AN ARMED CITIZEN may not be able to prevent Aurora, but he/she can damned sure stop it quickly.

DEAN BAKER: Mr. Arithmetic will save Social Security. Mr. Baker may have passed third-grade arithmetic, but it's clear that his math skills stopped there. If you follow 'Mr. Arithmetic' (not obvious) then it's clear that Baker's political leanings are Marxist (from each according to his ability, to each according to his need) and his intellectual skills (scroll through his other posts) are about on a par with my three cats.

[Added: my wife thinks I'm insulting the cats. Apologies to Diamond, Daisy, and Shadow.]

WEEKEND CULTURE WRAP and other news to amuse from PowerLine. Teaser: Can the Earth explode as a result of global warming?

Read it all for more mockery of the liberal left.

CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN:


The data is here.

CHUTZPAH? Or sheer lunacy? Driving to the store this morning, I encountered a jogger/runner who was running down the centerline of a two-lane road. Just another case of putting the 'nut' into health nut.

OBAMA CAMPAIGN SAYS ex-President Bill Clinton will have a marquee role in the Democratic National Convention. Hah! He must have Obama's real birth certificate....

IT'S NOT THAT I'VE BECOME MORE CONSERVATIVE,


it's that the progressive activists have moved so far left that the center appears to have moved right.

TOO DUMB TO VOTE in in Minnesota and Michigan. You can't allow voters actually understand what they're voting on. Then they might not need you.

WHERE WERE YOU IN '62? I had just graduated from high school, moved with my family to Austin, Texas, and was preparing for my freshman year in college. Just over six months later, I was on an Army base in Germany, a technician on a mobile satellite tracking station.

Times have changed indeed.

YOU CAN'T DO THAT -- you don't have a permit!

BREAKING NEWS: Florida man who lost hand charged with feeding alligator. What was the alligator charged with?

MOMMA'S, DON'T LET YOUR BABIES be born in New York City.

Best comment: "Large-breasted women will only be permitted to dispense milk in 16oz increments."

POLITICAL CALCULATIONS: The Regulation of the American People.


Historical Notes: the Environmental Protection Agency was created December 2, 1970. And ObamaCare, if not repealed, will be implemented in earnest in 2014.

BILL WHITTLE: "It's a Miracle."

A YOUNGER OBAMA considered his first employer 'the enemy'. He was employed?

GREAT WEB SITE: Demwits(dot)Com. Here's a sample:

‘PUNISHER’ gets its first battlefield tests. But it won't be available in time for Christmas.

ILLINOIS CONGRESSMAN Jesse Jackson, Jr. is at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota being evaluated "for depression and gastrointestinal issues." Is 'gastrointestinal issues' medical-speak for 'full of sh*t?'