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Tar & feathers are applicable to this one -- the only reason for the RFID chip is to monitor student attendance to get attendance-based state and federal money. A body count, as it were.

NEW FLAGPOLES IN IRAN spark rumors of clandestine satellite jamming technology. Israeli supplied? Or are the Iranians self-destructing?

ANDREA TANTAROS: It's time for Republicans to let Obama own the fiscal crisis.

Let Democrats bring a bill to increase spending on what Obama calls a second stimulus, raise taxes on high earners (including many small businesses) without doing a thing to fix Medicare and Social Security for current and future generations. Republicans can take a page of Obama’s playbook and vote present as he did when he was a senator. When the nation falls off the fiscal cliff, he can own it.

The tax increases that happen will be the Obama tax increases. When spending spikes, it can be the Obama tax and spend plan. And we slide into recession as the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicts will happen, it will be the Obama recession.

The Republicans should spend the next two years publicly debating and preparing legislation in both houses of Congress for introduction when the Democrats finally collapse in the chaos that's bound to come.

OBAMA WANTS TO unilaterally set the debt ceiling. Nancy Pelosi thinks that's a fine idea. As for all you little people out there, don't worry your little minds that we're $16 trillion in debt with no limit in sight.

TO BE DUBBED AN HONORARY TEXAN: California Woman Takes on Burglar with Twitter, Bear Spray and a Samurai Sword.

NO, SHE SHOULD be thrown in jail for the next decade. I'm not as kind as Dr. Ablow.

GOOD IDEA: Unionize fast-food workers. Then there'll be more welfare recipients to unionize next.

TSA OFFICIAL skips Congressional hearing. So let's make it law; refuse to attend a Congressional hearing and your agency's budget is cut 10% automatically. Better yet, adopt (a slight extension of) Instapundit's view -- just abolish the agency.

MAYBE HELL DOES FREEZE OVER: NASA Finds New Evidence of Ice on Mercury.

HERE'S OBAMA'S PLAN to avoid the fiscal cliff:

An immediate $1 trillion tax hike through higher top marginal income tax rates as well as higher taxes on both capital gains and dividends.

An agreement to raise $600 billion more in taxes later this year by limiting tax deductions for
top earners.

$50 billion in new infrastructure stimulus spending.

Another “emergency” extension of unemployment benefits.

An extension of either the payroll tax cut or the reinstatement of Obama’s stimulus Making Work Pay tax credit.

A mortgage refinancing program.

Billions in new spending to prevent cuts to Medicare reimbursement payments for doctors.

An infinite debt limit hike.

Looks really appetizing, doesn't it?

IF THE MEDICARE AGE IS RAISED, the young will pay more. Nope. Everyone will pay more. Think about it for a moment; the brain exercise will do you good (progressives, this comment assumes you have a brain to think with).

RUSH LIMBAUGH: Just Walk Away, Republicans.

JONAH GOLDBERG: Brain-Lock Inside the Beltway. That, of course, presumes that inside the beltway there is a brain to lock.

PAUL GREENBERG: Over the Fiscal Cliff. I like Greenberg's recommendation -- at least at the $17,000 level, even though it would likely cause me to pay more taxes -- as an interim step toward revamping the whole tax system to a flat tax, sans any deductions, that every American pays.

IT'S NOT A CESSPOOL; it's a hot tub.

BILL TATRO: some thoughts on savings, investment, growth, and the underground economy.

Expect the underground economy to grow significantly over the next four years.

OBAMA’S “FISCAL CLIFF” OFFER to Republicans calls for $1.6 trillion in new taxes and end of debt ceiling in exchange for … basically/nothing. Promises are made, but never kept.

RI-I-I-IGHT: We're from the government, and we're here to help you.

I'm Surprised Update: one California Senator isn't a complete dolt.

NAVY CATAPULTS UNMANNED AIRCRAFT FOR FIRST TIME: The first flight was conducted at a Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland. Carrier trials are scheduled for next year.

AND HE'S PRESIDENT of the United States of America.... President of all the people (who voted for him).