Can We Trust the GOP? -The Republicans have retaken the House, but that doesn’t mean you should expect the government to get any smaller.
Congress: Replacement Takes Shape
From Bookworm:
The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize recipient gave a state dinner in honor of the leader of China.
The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Liu Xiaobo, is imprisoned in China.
All conclusions are obvious.
From Shrinkwrapped's discussion of Mark Rudd:
The great problem for the Left is that they have failed spectacularly. The Soviet Union is now a kleptocracy surviving off oil; China is a State run Corporation; Cuba can barely feed itself and its much vaunted healthcare system is a shambles for all but the well connected who can obtain western (Capitalist) medical care; Venezuela is going off a cliff despite its oil; everywhere Socialism has been tried it has failed to do anything but terrorize and consign its people to perdition.
Video: Jeb Bush on Disrupting the Education Monopoly. As they say, if his surname were Jones he'd be a contender.
The Culture is Cracking: A Return to Toughness
Pic is from Pico ski area in Vermont. Great fun to ride up to those mountaintops on oil power, and to whizz down on gravity power. Thrills and chills. Thanks to globalistical warmening caused by climate models, winter is even more fun now with more cold and more snow.
