YUVAL LEVIN: Reforming Immigration Reform. Good ideas, all.

GLENN REYNOLDS [INSTAPUNDIT]: Where are the start-ups? My suspicion is that the start-ups are there; just in the underground economy. The real question is whether or not they'll be able to emerge.

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MORNING EXAMINER: Pro-amnesty Republicans and the welfare state.

“It is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And you cannot have both.” – Milton Friedman.

As written, the article is a bit confused, I think, but the gist is clear: 'comprehensive' immigration reform isn't going to happen until the deficit problem (Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid) is resolved.

WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, Democrats ... leave (usually with their tails tucked between their legs).

NAVY successfully simulates UAV landing on aircraft carrier. Next stop: USS George H.W. Bush.

IS BENGHAZI becoming a Watergate, or Iran-Contra, or both? "Benghazi shows that State has now almost descended into an arm of the 2012 reelection effort, in the manner of the media itself, as we saw in Candy Crowley’s exasperation over the Benghazi dispute in the third presidential debate."

OBAMACARE: the change begins. Opting out is looking very attractive ... if ObamaCare allowed catastrophic coverage (it doesn't; and it can't without self-destructing) the percentage of 'optoutees' would be very high indeed.

BENGHAZI: the clean-up begins.

MISSING THE POINT (pun intended): Knives are tools; they can be used for defense as well as offense.

ABORTION, KERMIT GOSNELL and the silence of the lambs.

GOOD: House hits brakes on Internet tax passed by Senate. We need fewer taxes, not more.

The excuse for taxing the internet is that "online tax is necessary to level the playing field between online and 'brick and mortar' retailers who must charge a tax." I've never quite understood the 'level playing field' excuse; I usually have to pay 'shipping & handling' charges which at, say, 8 bucks, easily offsets any sales tax advantage I get by purchasing online.

No, the 'Market Fairness Act' isn't about fairness, it's a tax grab, pure and simple.

GREAT FOR TRAFFIC JAMS: Terrafugia's next flying car envisioned as tilt-rotor.



The car would lift off nearly vertically using propellers on its stubby wings. The props would then rotate from a vertical to a horizontal position for regular flight, the same kind of technology that is found in the Marines' V-22 Osprey.

PUSHING BACK: "Democrats are traditionally the party of racial bigotry." It's not just me saying so.

We're very tolerant -- as long as you know your place.

THE EMPEROR OBAMA: all hat; no cattle.

"THE OVERRIDING CONCERN of the left is not whether a program does good. It is whether it feels good."

BOLIDES: visualizing meteor strikes. More on the animation here.

YOUR GOVERNMENT: spending more to do less.

THIS SHOULD put a crimp in immigration reform.

THEY DO.



The pity is ... you won't.

ANN COULTER: America's most feared economist. By the Left.