PRE-QUALIFIED POLITICIAN: She has no chance in the New York Governor’s race, but running for Congress? The Speakership is not out of the question.

An earlier interview with Reason’s Nick Gillespie is here.

RUN FROM SLAVERY



Black, white, yellow, red, pink, purple; it doesn’t matter. Run.

The link is here.

ACCORDING TO AL GORE, reality is to blame that a climate bill is not likely to pass this year.

COFFEE PARTY grows cold. Nothing tastes worse than cold coffee.

Link from Instapundit.

NOVEMBER IS COMING.


This sign was seen at the intersection of U.S. highways 29 and 33 in Ruckersville, Greene County, VA. A second sign was posted further south on U.S. 29 near Charlottesville. Returning on northbound Interstate 81 from our day trip to Natural Bridge, we saw at mile marker 233 a semi-trailer parked alongside the highway with the sign “CONGRESS REPRESENT THE PEOPLE OR GO HOME” neatly stenciled on the side.

Virginians are not happy.

DAY TRIP to Natural Bridge, Virginia. Natural Bridge, in Rockbridge County, Virginia is an arch 215 feet high with a span of 90 feet over a gorge in the mountainous limestone terrain carved out by Cedar Creek (a small tributary of the James River) It consists of horizontal limestone strata and is likely the remains of the roof of a cave through which the creek once flowed. Here’s a photo of the entrance (downstream) side of Natural Bridge.


The upstream side, after passing under the arch.


And here’s the odd thing: Natural Bridge is in fact a bridge as U.S. highway 11 goes over Cedar Creek gorge at Natural Bridge. Here’s a photo – the fence is on both sides of the highway preventing any view of the gorge, and there is no signage to indicate that one is actually on the bridge.


And finally for your amusement, this sign:


Unless I missed something in high-school physics, falling objects always come from above.

“[T]HAT’S HOW CREDIT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK: You buy something with somebody else's money and then you pay them back, typically with interest. The risk you take in borrowing helps you to make a wise decision.”

Read it all, and wish that our government factotums could read at all.

Link from Instapundit.

THEN AND NOW: “then” looks better and better.

Linked from Instapundit.

ONE OF THE BIGGEST FALLACIES OF OUR TIME is the notion that something is wrong with society if all groups are not proportionally represented in institutions, professions or income levels. The very possibility that people make their own choices, and that those choices have consequences -- for themselves and for others -- is ignored.

Read it all.

A $3.8 TRILLION TAX INCREASE is coming down the pike:

[T]he President mentioned some “plan” to do something about not raising taxes on all Americans. Um, don’t know about you, but I don’t find this general, vague promise of some “plan” all that reassuring. The Left also “plans” to do something about our out of control deficits and high unemployment, and the President “planned” for his nearly trillion dollar stimulus to keep unemployment under 8%. We’ve seen how successful that “plan” worked out. The President’s budget “plan” hasn’t worked out so well either. As the economist Bruce Bartlett explained at the time, the President’s budget – including the tax promise – was never much more than a vague statement of intent. Practically speaking, it was dead on arrival. Even Bartlett couldn’t have known how dead, though, because in the end Congress didn’t even succeed in passing a budget, let alone in taking a decision on the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts.

I’d lump it and accept the tax hike if the President assured me – in blood – that his administration and Congress would not do one damned thing – nothing; nada; zero; zilch between now and the end of his term on January 21, 2013.

MORE ON THE MAINSTREAM IMMATURE MEDIA, lying to the public, and American’s confidence in the media.

Also watch the Limbaugh video embedded at the bottom of the above-linked post.

SPEAKING OF TONE DEAF: Obama comes out in favor of allowing mosque near ground zero. He’s throwing us to the alligators in the vain hope they’ll eat him last.

Even assuming a massive repudiation in November, it will still take years – decades? – to undo the damage President Obama and the Democrats have done in a mere 18 months.

ROGER SIMON WONDERS whether Barack Obama really wants to be President.

Of course not. He wants to be King ...


... with Marie, er, Michelle Antoinette as his Queen.


Much more here.

SIDE NOTE: Why is it that I have to rely on UK newspapers to read anything about the Obamas that isn’t fawning?

“LIBERAL” and “immature” are synonyms.

THE DISTORTED PICTURE tells you all you need to know about the insanity of today’s Left. America’s biggest mistake was deinstitutionalizing the non-criminally insane in the 1970’s.

Linked from here.

VIDEO: Can you tell which of these government spending projects are real or fake?

The simple answer is the stupider it sounds, the more likely it is to be real.

AS A SOCCER FAN, I’d just like to point out that curling is more popular in the U.S. than the Obama administration.

SHED A TEAR FOR THE CLOWN. The only thing I would add to the post is an “s” at the end of clown to include the New York Times.

Mark Twain was right, but incomplete. He should have said “Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress or a journalist. But I repeat myself.”

Instapundit is right. Mock them.

HARVARD MORALITY EXPERT suspected of lying?

A RATHER ANGRY AMERICA? Victor Davis Hanson comments.

We see the arrested adolescence and hypocrisy that come from that sermonizing generation, whether in Al Franken’s puerile face-making, the ideologically driven suicide at Newsweek, the steady destruction of the New York Times, John Kerry’s tax-avoiding yacht, the Great Gatsby Clinton wedding, Michelle on the Costa del Sol, Nancy Pelosi’s jet, Tim Geithner’s tax skipping, or the constant race-card playing of a Charles Rangel and Maxine Waters. Yes, one walk across the Yale or Stanford campus circa 1975, and one could see pretty clearly what sort of culture that bunch would create when it came of age and was handed power.

In sum: “Law? There is no law other than a mandated equality of result.”