SARAH PALIN: “Mr. President, please do not punish the American public with any new energy tax in response to this tragedy. Just because BP and federal regulators screwed up that doesn’t mean the rest of us should get punished with higher taxes at the pump and attached to everything petroleum products touch.”

As I’m sure Mrs. Palin knows, that’s the liberal way: always punish the innocent for the sins of the guilty.

AVOID STRAYING FROM THE LIBERAL PLANTATION.

Consider Cuban refugees.
In Kennedy's time, liberals embraced them. Today, not so much.
Cuban refugees included too many successful businessmen.

Don Surber nails it: don’t be successful.

BILLBOARD OF THE DAY: possibly a photoshop, but still a winner.

PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE or stupidity principle? You make the call.

WHAT WOULD YOU RATHER CAP? The Gulf oil spill in 5,000 feet of water, or the gusher known as Rosie O’Donnell?

WHO KILLED SCHOLARSHIP? Two nuggets of wisdom from columnist Paul Greenberg:

[S]cholars seem to have been largely replaced by educators, just as learning has been replaced by expertise, teachers by facilitators, and education by educanto.

And:

"It never entered (our) minds to dumb down the curriculum." But that's just what happens when graduating students becomes more important than educating them.

Read it all.

VICTIMS do not make good leaders.

NO FEAR: Obama “may be walking loudly, but he is carrying a very small stick.”

The President should be afraid - very afraid - for his future.

JUST DO IT and ask permission later.

Link from Instapundit.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS: vacation at Club ICE.

SURPRISE, SURPRISE: Self-identified liberals and Democrats do badly on questions of basic economics.

ACADEMIC ASTROTURF: the “Cry Wolf” project.

Jeez. They can’t even write their own straightforward propaganda proposals. I guess it’s all that academic nuance they’re burdened with.

UPDATE: “By soliciting “paid activists” to create research papers that are intentionally designed to silence opposing viewpoints, they have undermined the political system and manipulated the governmental policy making process. And in the meantime, they’ve also implicated all of academia in the manufacturing of their propaganda.” Read it all.

MORE: It’s now “Academia-gate”.

UNION BULLYING: A retired U.S. Marine who runs a high school ROTC program in Worcester [MA] faces the boot for refusing to pay local [teachers] union dues.

OUR NEW ECONOMIC PLAN does not need to include "worshipping" the free market - it requires worshiping government control.

Link from Neal Boortz.

THE CONSTITUTION AND DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE are now published with a disclaimer?

Here's the disclaimer:


I prefer SayAnythingBlog's disclaimer:

This is the US Constitution and it’s not a historical document but rather the supreme law of the land. It says what it says, and if you don’t like it you should advocate for its amendment. If you can’t get it amended you should live with it. Or move to Canada.

Original link from Neal Boortz.

ANOTHER OBAMA PROMISE goes under the bus. Remember Obama saying “If you like your current health insurance plan, you can keep it”?

What he meant was “If we like your current health insurance plan, we’ll let you keep it.”

JOURNALIST DIVES INTO OIL SPILL; finds ... er, oil.

Link from Hot Air.

WHY AREN’T BANKS LENDING? Because bureaucrats and politicians won’t let them.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Obama promised hope and change; he appears to be delivering hype and chains.

OBAMACARE NAILS ITS FIRST “VILLAIN.” Virginia-based nHealth has announced that the uncertainties associated with ObamaCare are driving it out of the health care business.

[W]hat kind of insurance plans did nHealth offer? The kind of high-deductible, HSA-driven plans that put patients in charge of routine care and leaves insurance to cover the crises instead. They saved money while offering better pricing signals to hold down overuse of provider networks. In other words, nHealth was part of the real solution to “steeply rising health care costs,” and ObamaCare drove them out of business.

What’s particularly frustrating is that nHealth offers exactly the kind of health insurance I would buy if it were offered on the group market. Read the whole thing.