"THE SMOKE coming out of those stacks is the most beautiful sight in the world. It means there is progress being made somewhere. Somewhere, some place, someone is making progress. If there is no smoke coming out, we look at it as trouble.”

REINCE PRIEBUS: The Ethics of Audacity.

ONE MILLION SIGNATURES; how many forgeries?

MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTERS toss mostly smokeless bomb over White House fence.

WILL SOMEONE please teach the Left the rudiments of good tax policy?

LIBERALISM: No laughing allowed.

BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT TOILET TRAINED: Taxpayers on Hook for D.C. Protester's Potties.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: So Why Read Anymore? History. Repeat.

OBAMACARE: reduce access and grow government.

IF ELECTED PRESIDENT, will you appoint your GOP rivals as a part of your administration, to utilize their skill sets ... in order to unite and restore our republic?

YOU CAN TALK, OR YOU CAN NAVIGATE, but you can't do both. It's beginning to look like LightSquared didn't donate enough to Obama's campaign. They should demand their contributions back....

AN IGNORANT CONGRESSMAN. Is there another kind?

DEATH BY WEALTH (TAX).

LEAN BACKWARDS -- at least you won't fall flat on your face.

FROM HOPE & CHANGE TO HATE & FEAR: "Barack Obama came to Washington promising hope and change, but he’s worked to spread hate and fear. I can think of no greater bipartisan effort that all Americans should undertake this fall, than voting Obama and his administration out of office. For the sake of our country, and our freedom, we must do better."

BREAKING THE GOP cycle of capitulation. Voters must make it absolutely clear that the 'capitulators' will be gone from Congress in 2013.

WHO IS ANTI-SCIENCE? The skeptics or the believers?

"WHATEVER YOU MIGHT THINK is the purpose of higher education, there is a case to be made that public funding of college-level studies should bear some relation to the requirements of the national economy. In mainland China, where most higher education is paid for by the state, the government has found this case persuasive. They have recently announced that funding of college majors will in the future be determined by the graduate employment rates. Fields in which the employment rate for graduates falls below 60 percent for two consecutive years will have their state subsidies cut back or eliminated. It pains us to find ourselves in agreement with the Chinese Communist party on anything at all, but this new policy is surely a sound one. If applied in the U.S. , it would have two highly desirable side effects: one, there would be fewer unemployable graduates available to populate the "Occupy" movement, and two, the liberal professoriate would be furious."

From the dead tree edition of National Review (Dec. 31, 2011).

THE GRECIAN COLUMNS wouldn't fit in the convention center: Democrats move last night of convention to Charlotte stadium.

REX MURPHY: Thou must not question Big Environment. They don't want you to know who they're blackmailing ....

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