BILL WHITTLE: The Incredible Shrinking Man.

GO AHEAD, MAKE MY DAY: Clint Eastwood at the Republican National Convention.

SOME VIDEOS from Day 2 of the Republican National Convention:

Mia Love
Condoleezza Rice
Susana Martinez
Paul Ryan

More videos from CSPAN here.

IF 'BED REST', 'personal journaling', and 'helping a relative with household tasks and errands' now meet the work requirements for welfare, then I should apply.

NOW IT'S OUR TURN.

THE BEST alarm clock is a hungry cat. If only they weren't set for 5:30 am.

LOOK FOR used car prices to skyrocket. Buy now, save money.

DEAD VOTERS and a dying democracy?

FIRST, throw out the wonks: “Common sense is in spite of,” wrote Victor Hugo, “not the result of, education.”

THE MIDAS EFFECT: Everything Obama touches turns to Volt.

GUN ID LEGISLATION may trigger exodus of gunmakers Remington, Colt from New York and Connecticut. Sturm Ruger is also headquartered in Connecticut. I expect they will consider leaving as well.

CHINA MAY BE NEXT to land people on the moon.

STORIES FROM AROUND THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.

FINALLY, the Left gets a clue. But they'll refuse to act on it.

THOMAS SOWELL: Risky Business.

Insurance is all about risk. Yet neither insurance companies nor their policy-holders can do anything about one of the biggest risks -- namely, interference by politicians, to turn insurance into something other than a device to deal with risk.

Which explains the ever rising cost of health 'care'.

MARK STEYN: Obama's war on children.

DOES GOD LOVE THE GOP? Ask Dana Milbank.

E. J. DIONNE: Elizabeth Warren on health care and religion. Read the whole thing. It sounds warm and fuzzy and caring until you realize that she believes that warm and fuzzy and caring are government functions to be carried out by herself and her liberal colleagues.

THERE WAS A TIME when risk was acceptable. No longer.

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Cheesecake Factory Medicine. To summarize by way of a Henry Ford analogy: "You can have any car you like as long as it's a Volt."

Here's what's truly disconcerting. This comment is primarily about Medicare, but don't kid yourself, it's inherent in ObamaCare as well:

It should be noted that those on Medicare cannot choose to pay privately and outside the system if the provider participates in Medicare.... People who have Medicare have no other choice for insurance, and they will get what the provider is allowed to offer.

And here's the point: if you're receiving Social Security -- as I am -- you're automatically enrolled in Medicare Part A (hospitalization). You have no choice. You can't opt out. You can't pay extra for a higher quality of service.