BUMPER SNICKERS

Seen on the back of a car driving to work this morning ....

The first:

The second:

In Washington, DC, no less!

THE OMNIPRES[ID]ENT

"Much outrage has accompanied the release of a video showing little kids at the Bernice Young Elementary School in New Jersey, being led in a ... song of praise to Barack Obama."

"Besides the understandable anger parents feel when their children are used as political props, the Bernice Young sing-along is grating because it’s another aspect of the Obama omnipresence. The guy is everywhere, all the time. He’s been stalking the American voter all summer .... Mercifully, he stopped just short of filling our inboxes with spam emails, or dropping pop-up spyware onto our computers."

Read the whole piece.

WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN ELITIST AND A TYRANT?

Nothing.

GOLD NUGGETS

Thomas Sowell’s random thoughts are golden.

PRACTICE SAFE SPINACH

WARNING: Eating may be hazardous to your health. Leafy greens head a list of the top 10 riskiest foods according to the report from the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

The top ten:

- Leafy greens
- Eggs
- Tuna
- Oysters
- Potatoes
- Cheese
- Ice Cream
- Tomatoes
- Sprouts
- Berries

Jeez. Is there anything the “public interest” groups don’t want the government to regulate?

Caption via Instapundit.

PALIN: DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW

From Sarah Palin’s Facebook page. “Bottom line: let’s stop digging ourselves into debt and start drilling for energy independence.”

Ed Morrissey adds: “We could create tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of high-paying industrial jobs by opening the coastlines for drilling, most of which would be union labor. It would take a few years to start benefiting fully from the production, but we could be well on our way to keeping dollars at home rather than sending them abroad ....”

WHEN IS A TAX NOT A TAX?

When it’s a value-added tax.

GUN CONTROL

William Shatner on gun control.


No, I don't think it's racist; I think it's funny.

ON LOSING THE OLYMPICS

Writing about Team Barry’s presentation was to the International Olympic Committee:

[I]t’s unpatriotic not to be heartbroken that a billion-dollar graft opportunity for Richard Daley and his slimy cronies — which even Chicagoans were evenly split on, mind you — got flushed down the toilet. The fact is, it’s only because the stakes for the country were so low and Obama’s ego so overweening that an “unforced error” this dumb can be laughed at.

Given that the president used to be a law professor, an observation routinely attributed to former Harvard professor Henry Kissinger may appropriate: "Academic politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."

THE LIBERAL'S DILEMMA

The problem with utopias is that no human being could ever live in one.

THE SORT-OF GOD THAT FAILED

Obama does not yet have a failed presidency, but he is on course to one in both domestic and foreign affairs.

Read it all.

GOING ROGUE

Sarah Palin may no longer be governor of Alaska, but she's certainly destined to become a best-selling author. HarperCollins, her publisher, has announced the print-run of her memoir will be a staggering 1.5 million copies ... such a giant run is only ordered up when there is clear evidence from booksellers and surveys of massive interest in a book.






















Yep. Palin’s book [is] number one on both [the] Amazon and Barnes & Noble bestseller list.

THE 'CENTERIST' PUBLIC OPTION

E.J. Dionne knows Americans want government-sponsored health care; but

Because opponents know from polling that the public wants the chance to choose a government plan, they move the discourse to abstract and often demagogic ground.

Reasoned opposition isn't an option, eh?

The most revealing "argument" during the Senate Finance Committee's public-option debate on Tuesday came from Sen. Chuck Grassley. "The government is not a fair competitor," [Sen. Chuck] Grassley said. "It's a predator."

So Dionne asks: "Is it predatory for government to pay health bills for the elderly?"

Well, consider the complementary question: Is it predatory for the government to not allow anyone else to pay health bills for the elderly? Because once I turn 65, I can't opt out of Medicare.

Dionne then asks: "Is Social Security, which lives side by side with private pension and savings plans, predatory?"

Oh. please. Social Security was never intended to be a retirement system. If E.J. believes that, he should read a little history. Social Security was - and still is, for the most part - a social insurance program. If E.J wants to believe Social Security is a retirement program, then it's easily provable to be far less efficient than simply saving for retirement in a 401k-like program.

47% TO PAY NO INCOME TAX IN 2009

Why not vote for bread and circuses when you’re not on the Colloseum floor?

THE NEXT FEDERAL BAILOUT

'Great' Public Universities. Now our state universities are asking to line up at the trough. Don't I already pay enough state taxes?

My God, UC Berkley is at least in part a land-grant (Morrill Act) college. Oh, the shame ....

Via Instapundit.

RIO DE JANEIRO WINS 2016 OLYMPICS

Does this mean the IOC is racist?

[Update] Nope. It's Bush's fault.

Idiot.

THE PAST IS NOT QUITE PAST

“We should remember the past these last few weeks as we watch U.S. foreign policy turned topsy-turvy.”

Victor Davis Hanson offers a history lesson to President Obama.

WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP

Bobo the talking intern is back.

BACK UP YOUR BRAIN

By 2040 you will be able to upload your mind.

I just bought a 4 GB external USB drive last week. That should leave about 3 GB to spare.

Link from Instapundit.

NAIVE AND EGOTISTICAL

"French president Nicolas Sarkozy considers Barack Obama 'incredibly naive and grossly egotistical,' [and] is convinced that 'nothing can dent [Obama's] naivete.' ”



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