Maggie's Farm

I'm away tomorrow. Leaving these:

Socialism requires hatred. Am thinker

Update on college grade inflation

Good news. Cap and trade is sinking

Why pro athletes go broke

Floods=Global warming? I think floods go way back in time, don't they?

Want welfare? Then clean up your urine

Ezra Levant's book, Shakedown

Bayh wants to be a sane Dem. Is it possible? Related: Obama facing Dem defections. Related: Dems bid adieu to the private sector. Why is it so easy for them to forget that the govt is totally dependent on the private sector's being happily productive?

Govt needs the hedgies to bail out the regulated institutions. Irony indeed.

The homelessness BS. Kaus. Those measures would have counted me as homeless last year.

It never ceases to amaze me how Dem pols always get rich. Emanuel's $ from Fannie. As I see it, Dems love money too much, both their own money and other peoples' money that they can get their hands on.

If O has his way, watch for huge gas taxes at the pump. The gas taxes are already huge, aren't they?

This isn't government. It's a morality play. NRO

"Comrades, remember when Michelle Obama said, “Barack will never let you go back to the way you used to live…” She meant that." Sheesh. I kinda liked the way I lived, simple, honest, and free. Anchoress

Brownwell, via Protein:

Why would I choose to be a conservative? Why would I choose the persecution? I am constantly ridiculed for my beliefs. I have been compared to Nazis. Liberals call me a sexist, racist, bigoted homophobe. My intentions are mischaracterized, and then I am judged by those mischaracterized intentions. For example, because I favor policies to help get everyone off of welfare to succeed on their own, my intentions are characterized as trying to keep blacks and minorities poor. These liberals then brand me a racist because they perceive my intentions are to keep blacks poor.

You would think I would choose to be a liberal. Liberals worldwide are hailed as compassionate for merely “raising awareness” of the plight of the poor. Forget that the poor don’t see a dime from the “awareness” raised. Despite poverty winning the war we waged on it, liberals get judged by their intentions rather than the results of their policies.