PENUMBRAS AND PRIVACY: a short - and enlightening - essay by one of Don Surber's commenters.

The post that led to the comment is here.

INTERESTING: Do corporations have First Amendment rights?

CONSERVATISM IS BACK -- and this time it's serious.

CRONY CAPITALISM: the revolving door spins. And it will continue until government is dramatically downsized.

THOSE IVY LEAGUERS, bitterly clinging to their credentials and their privileged opinion perches....

NASA'S UNCLEAR MISSION wasting big bucks. Surprise, surprise. Here's the money quote: "[T]he agency's inspector general warned that NASA is wasting hundreds of millions of dollars because it lacks a clear direction. The conflict exist because NASA policy legislation ... doesn't match a different law that appropriates money for the agency."

Right hand, meet left hand.

THE FIRST ‘SENIOR MOMENT’:


And that’s why dinosaurs are extinct.

SIGH. Peak Corn? Federal ethanol mandate drives corn supply-to-use ratio to 50-year low.

A short course on the Law of Unintended Consequences should be mandatory before any state or federal elected official takes office.

AN EXCELLENT SUMMARY of the first two years of the United States of Obama.

DUCK AND COVER: I suspect it’s good advice for other natural disasters (hurricanes, blizzards, earthquakes, etc.) as well. Our government's (think FEMA) “run about, scream-and-shout” strategy of evacuating every time Nature blinks does little more than clog the roads to prevent an emergency response.

I trust individual initiative a bit more that the government’s duly-certified ‘we are here to save you’ experts.

For those who are interested, Instapundit frequently posts on disaster preparedness. See here and here. Or if you want more, go to Instapundit and enter 'disaster preparedness' in the search box (right column; scroll down)

FOLLOWING THE TITANIC: The U.S.S. Obama hit a rather large iceberg on election day and it seems the crew is belatedly discovering it’s better to be on the lifeboat than on the ship.

TWO YEARS AGO, Barack Obama was inaugurated as president of the United States. Are you better off today than you were two years ago? Numbers don't lie, and here are the data on the impact he has had on the lives of Americans:


Sources: (1) U.S. Energy Information Administration; (2) Wall Street Journal; (3) Bureau of Labor Statistics; (4) Census Bureau; (5) USDA; (6) U.S. Dept. of Labor; (7) FHFA; (8) Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller; (9) RealtyTrac; (10) Heritage Foundation and WSJ; (11) The Conference Board; (12) FDIC; (13) Federal Reserve; (14) U.S. Treasury.

“PRETTY SOON it may be cool to be a Republican and square to be a Democrat.”

“HIGHER EDUCATION has no special immunity from the angri-culture. On the contrary, it is a privileged haunt for those who delight in scorn, derision, and wrathful dislike of mainstream American culture. We cite academic freedom as guaranteeing our right to be vitriolic.”

Linked from Instapundit.

CENTRAL PLANNING versus the market economy. I wrote about Range Fuels here.

FIGHTING BACK: Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has announced the state will sue the federal government for its failure to secure the border and enforce immigration laws.

REMINDER:Obamacare is a jobs-killer.

THE THOUGHT HAS OCCURRED ....

TEA PARTY WINS: $100 billion in cuts in House GOP spending bill. It’s a good beginning, but only a beginning.

[Update] More here.

JERRY BROWN: a modern-day Sisyphus.