IS GOVERNMENT TOO BIG?



Only by a factor of 2 or 3. Or 4 or ....

The YouTube link here.

WASHINGTON POST HEADLINE (print edition): “Supreme Court expands gun rights.”

Hogwash! The Supreme Court decision merely affirmed that the Second Amendment applies to all Americans; that the fundamental right to bear arms cannot be violated by state and local governments.

For more, go here.

CHICAGO GUN BAN STRUCK DOWN: the right to bear arms is an individual right.

WE HAVE a stupid gap. It’s widening.

BRAVO, GOV. BREWER!



Mr. President, contrary to liberal belief, Arizona belongs to Americans. We intend to keep it, with your help - or without it.

Link from Hot Air.

SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK


June 26, 2010.

OUR TAX DOLLARS WELL SPENT: U.S. spent $2 million on study promoting condom use among intravenous drug users in Kazakhstan.

Link from Neal Boortz.

NO CHOCOLATE FOR YOU. A subsistence diet is healthier.

WHO IS BARACK OBAMA? PowerLine comments on the Barack Obama - Jimmy Carter comparison and notices that Glenn Reynolds has called it a “best-case scenario” many times.

I would only add that Jimmy Carter needn’t worry about losing his title as the “Worst President of the 20th Century” since Obama was elected in 2008.

WITH OBAMA, the Left got what it wished for. “Unfortunately, the rest of us have to suffer along with you.”

HOME SALES SANK IN MAY, consumer confidence is faltering, the head of the last business group to give Obama the benefit of the doubt ripped into administration policy as “hostile environment for investment and job creation” and unemployment is back on the rise. What better time to start talking about a middle class tax increase?

HECKUVA JOB, BARRY. And you did it all in less than 18 months.

CRITICS ATTACK ARIZONA AGAIN for enforcing the law.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT halts Louisana sand berm dredging: “The berms are meant to protect the Louisiana coastline from oil. But the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department has concerns about where the dredging is being done.”

Gotta protect all those dead fish and pelicans.

Instapundit headlines it correctly: OBAMA TO GULF COAST: DROP DEAD

GEN. PETRAEUS, PART II: I posted on the initial announcement here. PowerLine has some thoughts I agree with:

I can't help wondering whether Obama himself feels any discomfort at turning to the hero of the Iraq surge to try to bail the administration out in Afghanistan. After all, Obama opposed the Iraq surge before it happened, and after the fact claimed that it had made only modest gains and was not responsible for the most significant improvements in Iraq.

This video from September 2007 reminds us that before Obama became a lousy President, he was a lousy Senator. Watch as he badgers Petraeus and ambassador Crocker and belittles their efforts in Iraq; almost eight minutes go by before either witness gets a word in.

You have to admire Gen. Petraeus for accepting an assignment from a Commander-in-Chief he cannot possibly respect, and I have to wonder if it’ll be “Bush’s fault” if Gen. Petraeus fails under Obama’s onerous restrictions.

HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER STENY HOYER: Yeah, we’re punting the budget this year.

The primary responsibility of Congress under the Constitution is to pass a budget for the federal government. The Democrats have a 77-seat majority in the House and an 18-seat majority in the Senate, where filibusters won’t apply anyway on budgetary matters. Barack Obama’s presidency gives them a clear path to passing whatever budget Democrats desire for FY2011.

So with significant majorities in both houses of Congress, why can’t the Democrats pass a budget? The Hill has answers:

[B]because [what will be passed] won't be a traditional budget resolution, it will be silent on future deficits, which are expected to average nearly $1 trillion for the next decade.

Democrats have expressed concern about voting for a document showing lots of red ink in an election year.

Aha!

GREEN JOBS turn brown.

T. CODDINGTON VAN VOORHEES VII rethinks his support for President Obama. Read it all.

I was particularly amused by the “git r dun” phrase, since I saw exactly that same phrase on a bumper sticker driving to work this morning.

TOO RICH: “The Labor Department is shoving money out the door for ‘green jobs,’ yet at the same time is admitting it doesn't know what a ‘green job’ is.”

IS OBAMA FAILING, OR LIBERALISM? Both.