AS IF WE NEED MORE PROOF: Blue America has a higher unemployment rate that Red America.

SERIOUSLY? Replace Joe Biden on the Democrat ticket? Look, I know that he is a gaffe-machine, but can anyone say definitively with a straight face that Joe Biden could possibly be a worse President than Obama has already proven to be?

THERE GO THOSE PESKY UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES AGAIN: Ban plastic bags and ban jobs, increase taxes, lose money, and pollute the environment. But other than that....

What really burns me is that none -- none! ... not one! -- of these consequences were unknown or unanticipated. They were simply swept under the rug by the environmental enthusiasts as not being relevant to 'saving the environment'.

A FOX "YOU DECIDE" MINI-POLL: Should Mitt Romney's tax returns be a campaign issue?

(7.65%): Yes. As a presidential candidate, Romney is obligated to be more transparent.

(86.13%): No. I don’t care if he releases his returns, and I don’t care how much he’s paid in taxes.

(6.22%): Only if Dems have hard proof that his tax bills were inordinately low.

Obviously not what the Democrats want you to believe.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: There is no California.

JEFF JACOBY: "swelled heads aren't very attractive." Which is one reason why I didn't bother to watch the Olympics this year.

WHERE IS ANDREA MITCHELL? Don't these ladies know that "[Ryan] is not a choice for women."

THE MEANING of Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day:

Chick-fil-A is not about gay marriage or Christianity at all.... It’s about power. It is morphing into an overt test of whether the cultural elite can have its way. The problem with National Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day is that it constitutes an act of open defiance by manifesting all too publicly the contempt that a fairly large segment of the population has for shibboleths of political correctness.

Read the whole thing. It's been over two weeks now, and I notice that my local Chick-fil-A is still crowded.

CHICAGO CRONYISM: back in the limelight. Pretty sight, isn't it?

GUN CONTROL:


Support Day by Day for another year. I have.

ROMNEY OPENS MOUTH, racism ensues. But it's racism on the part of the progressive Left; by their lights, anyone who has the temerity to disagree with them must be racist.

Frankly I'm a little annoyed at the hullaballoo about Biden's most recent 'chains' gaffe. Of course Biden is a gaffe-master, but the fault here lies with the Democrats who have rewritten the English language to add racial overtones to nearly every word in the dictionary except possibly 'and', 'but', and 'the'. Remember 'niggardly'? And 'black hole'?

LET GRANNY speak for herself. And Grandpa, too.

DON'T TELL THE DEMOCRATS: The election will be decided outside of the nation's capital.

IF CANADA IS SO GREAT, why do they come to the U.S. to shop?

I THOUGHT I had gotten a new lounge chair ...


for myself....

ANSWERS TO frequently asked questions about Christians.

OBAMA CAMP offers to pull back on tax attacks if Romney releases 5 years of [tax] returns. It's the perfect opening for Romney; he should agree if Obama agrees to release his high school and college transcripts. Which one would be more embarrasing?

THE 'CARING' LEFT: "Ethicists" attack religious parents for refusing to pull the plug. I put 'ethicists' is quotes to differentiate them from real ethicists.

WHAT REAL MEN are made of.

ABBOTT AND COSTELLO ON UNEMPLOYMENT:

COSTELLO: I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America.

ABBOTT: Good Subject. Terrible Times. It's 9%.

COSTELLO: That many people are out of work?

ABBOTT: No, that's 16%.

COSTELLO: You just said 9%.

ABBOTT: 9% Unemployed.

COSTELLO: Right 9% out of work.

ABBOTT: No, that's 16%.

COSTELLO: Okay, so it's 16% unemployed.

ABBOTT: No, that's 9%...

COSTELLO: WAIT A MINUTE. Is it 9% or 16%?

ABBOTT: 9% are unemployed. 16% are out of work.

COSTELLO: IF you are out of work you are unemployed.

ABBOTT: No, you can't count the "Out of Work" as the unemployed. You have to look for work to be unemployed.

COSTELLO: BUT THEY ARE OUT OF WORK!!!

ABBOTT: No, you miss my point.

COSTELLO: What point?

ABBOTT: Someone who doesn't look for work, can't be counted with those who look for work. It wouldn't be fair.

COSTELLO: To whom?

ABBOTT: The unemployed.

COSTELLO: But they are ALL out of work.

ABBOTT: No, the unemployed are actively looking for work. Those who are out of work stopped looking. They gave up. And, if you give up, you are no longer in the ranks of the unemployed.

COSTELLO: So if you're off the unemployment rolls, that would count as less unemployment?

ABBOTT: Unemployment would go down. Absolutely!

COSTELLO: The unemployment just goes down because you don't look for work?

ABBOTT: Absolutely it goes down. That's how you get to 9%. Otherwise it would be 16%. You don't want to read about 16% unemployment, do ya?

COSTELLO: That would be frightening.

ABBOTT: Absolutely.

COSTELLO: Wait, I got a question for you. That means there are two ways to bring down the unemployment number?

ABBOTT: Two ways is correct.

COSTELLO: Unemployment can go down if someone gets a job?

ABBOTT: Correct.

COSTELLO: And unemployment can also go down if you stop looking for a job?

ABBOTT: Bingo.

COSTELLO: So there are two ways to bring unemployment down, and the easier of the two is to just stop looking for work.

ABBOTT: Now you're thinking like an economist.

COSTELLO: I don't even know what I just said!

ABBOTT: Now you're thinking like a politician.

From my email. Whoever wrote this did an excellent job of capturing the essence of two real Abbott & Costello routines: Who's on first? and Loafing.