LEAVE BLAMING OTHERS TO ME: Obama warns students … not to blame other people for their problems.

OBAMACARE COULD wipe out health insurance for 1 million low-income workers.

As we read the bill, every new ObamaCare "oops" is just another indicator that the people who drafted the law have no understanding of the insurance industry, or of the private sector.

INSTAPUNDIT has an astute observation.

WHAT OUR MEDIA TAUGHT ME: Victor Davis Hanson cuts loose with both barrels.

OBAMA ON BP: I want to know “whose ass to kick.”

He might try looking into a mirror.

WHO SAID Obama doesn’t have an immigration plan?

PERSONALLY, I’M REMINDED OF JIMMY CARTER saying “I’ll kick his ass” about Ted Kennedy. But then, I’m reminded of Carter a lot lately.

GOODBYE, EUROPE. Been nice knowin' ya.

A WWII 'SIMPLE' SABOTAGE MANUAL. On page 1:

A second type of simple sabotage requires no destructive tools whatsoever and produces physical damage, if any, by highly indirect means. It is based on universal opportunities to make faulty decisions, to adopt a non-cooperative attitude, and to induce others to follow suit.

Reads like a certain "community organizer" we all know and love....

OBSERVING THE D.C. COUNCIL AND THE MAYOR work on the budget "is like watching kids play in traffic: You know sooner or later someone's going to get hurt. When D.C. politicians cavort, however, the city takes the hit."

It's a universal law of politics - the taxpayer always takes the hit.

WIN BIG AND LOSE. Just when you think you've driven the self-esteem movement back into the cloistered confines of the elite colleges and universities, it reappears.

Link from Hot Air.

RANDOM THOUGHTS from Thomas Sowell:

Just as the American left has adopted blacks as mascots, so the international left has adopted Palestinians as mascots. In both cases, the actual well-being of the mascots is not the point.

Much more here.

OBAMA IS AN INCOMPETENT SOCIALIST. Dick Morris writing in The Hill:

Conservatives are so enraged at Obama’s socialism and radicalism that they are increasingly surprised to learn that he is incompetent as well. The sight of his blithering and blustering while the most massive oil spill in history moves closer to America’s beaches not only reminds one of Bush’s terrible performance during Katrina, but calls to mind Jimmy Carter’s incompetence in the face of the hostage crisis.

Don Surber responds (#11): "Do we really want a competent socialist in the Oval Office?"

MEGAN MCARDLE THINKS that there are no good answers on public pensions (i.e., Social Security). Her "no good answers" options include:

- eliminating the payroll tax ceiling;
- means testing benefits; and
- raising the retirement age.

With all due respect, I disagree. There is a good option, called getting the public (government) out of pensions. As one who is just 4 months shy of full retirement age, I've looked carefully at my soon-to-come social security benefits versus what my payroll taxes would have brought had they been invested in the stock market (privatized).

The difference is startling.

In one sense, though, McArdle is right - there are no good answers on public pensions. The good answer is with privatization.

LIFE'S LESSONS: What I learned at war. Not surprisingly, most are equally applicable at home.

WASHINGTON POST LIBERAL mugged by reality. There may be hope for Richard Cohen yet.

PRESIDENT OBAMA SKIPPED MEMORIAL DAY wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington Cemetary but Vice President Joe Biden filled in admirably.

Obama should borrow Biden's teleprompter.

TWO AMERICAS: government bureaucrats and the rest of us.




Via PowerLine.

THOMAS SOWELL: "No nation ever protested its way from poverty to prosperity or got there through rhetoric or bureaucracies."

MARK STEYN: "Back in 2008, when I was fulminating against multiculturalism on a more or less weekly basis, a reader wrote to advise me to lighten up, on the grounds that 'we’re rich enough to afford to be stupid'. Two years later, we’re a lot less rich."

And just as stupid.