California Planning to Outlaw Fishing? (Updated)

Bully Pulpit  "California's trying to take the lead on marine protection with a new, and controversial, plan to ban or restrict fishing all along its Pacific coast. One of the excuses used to justify the new, over-reaching laws? Wait for it... Global Climate Change!"

Big Deer Blog

Remember PETA and the Sea Kittens?  "We've got it from here. And we're going to start by retiring the old name for good. When your name can also be used as a verb that means driving a hook through your head, it's time for a serious image makeover. And who could possibly want to put a hook through a sea kitten?" 

PETA Attempts To Make Fish More Adorable  ""PETA thought that by renaming fish sea kittens, compassionate people who would never dream of hurting a dog or a cat might extend that sympathy to fish, or sea kittens," PETA campaign coordinator Ashley Byrne says.
"Byrne says that rebranding fish as sea kittens was obvious."
And these people vote.

Animal Rights group's Latest Pigheaded Victory Causes Problems  "Many corpsmen will face a time when he or she will have to pack a gunshot wound, stop a bleeding artery, or cut into a fellow soldier to restore a breathing airway. It is during the first attempts at such procedures that most mistakes are made. I'd rather see it happen on a pig than on one of our military men or women."

House Republicans offer own healthcare legislation

LA Times  "The House passed a resolution Thursday instructing GOP committee chairs to write legislation that meets 12 criteria, including lowering premium costs, assuring access to coverage for people with preexisting conditions and increasing the number of insured Americans, all without raising taxes."

Should Have Listened to George

http://www.newsbusters.org/cartoons

The Post-Tucson Era

Victor Davis Hanson  "Hillary Clinton was especially embarrassed: one day she was sermonizing on foreign soil in morally equivalent fashion about an American version of an “extremist”; the next day, her boss told the world that the only thing extreme about the killer was his own nihilistic madness (and by implication damned those vultures [e.g., Ms. Clinton included] who clumsily try to make political points from tragedy)."

http://townhall.com/cartoons/bobgorrell

Paul Ryan To Give GOP State Of The Union Response

Rep. Paul Ryan

Ace of Spades   "A very good choice I'd say. Ryan is an up and coming star who is now head of the House Budget Committee, so yeah, fiscal issues are going to be the main thrust of his talk.
"The last time Ryan went up against Obama was at the "Health Care Summit" and he pretty much schooled him. "

Krauthammer: GOP Must End, Not Amend, Dems' Reform

Investors.com  "Suppose someone — say, the president of the United States — proposed the following: We are drowning in debt. More than $14 trillion right now. I've got a great idea for deficit reduction. It will yield a savings of $230 billion over the next 10 years: We increase spending by $540 billion while we increase taxes by $770 billion.

By the always-puckish Rich Terrell

"He'd be laughed out of town. And yet, this is precisely what the Democrats are claiming as a virtue of ObamaCare."
 Via American Thinker

House GOP begins long drive to dismantle Obamacare

Yes, Rep. Cohen - Obamacare is a takeover of our health care system    "The democrats have fully embraced the calls for civil discourse by comparing Republicans to Nazis. During the debate over repealing Obamacare Democrats continue to insist that Obamacare isn't a government takeover of health care and that portraying it as such is a lie. The repeatedly visceral and over wrought exaggerations remind me of the debates over welfare reform. At that time (1996) the Democrats were saying that such the reforms would throw millions of children into poverty and could even lead to starvation and rioting. Needless to say, nothing of the sort happened." Aaron Gee

Why We Provide for the Common Defense

Heritage  "In a luncheon speech to American business executives in which he urged the United States to recognize China’s claims over Tibet and Taiwan, Chinese President Hu Jintao said yesterday: “We do not engage in an arms race, we are not a military threat to any country. China will never seek to dominate or pursue an expansionist policy.” We certainly hope this is true. But our leaders must do more than just hope. As President George Washington asserted in his First Annual Message, the “most effectual means of preserving peace” is “to be prepared for war.”"

Education:  See how it relates to the above article."China will own much of our debt as a nation. The question is: how did this happen? How did we get to a point where our economy is no longer producing and thriving as it once was? Well the recent economic crisis obviously didn't help. It managed to wipe out every job that had been created in the 21st century in the United States. But even if we hadn't lost all of those jobs and had simply continued to march in place "the United States would have entered 2010 with 15 million fewer jobs than economists say it should have."  This according to a report in the National Journal . This leads us to believe that the problem started long ago. You would be correct. Nearly every single economist interviewed for this article in the National Journal pointed to one key factor: education. "