From 'Yes, We Can,' to 'No! Don't!' By Peggy Noonan

Wall Street Journal "The president seemed like a man long celebrated as being very good at politics—the swift rise, the astute reading of a varied electorate—who is finding out day by day that he isn't actually all that good at it. In this sense he does seem reminiscent of Jimmy Carter, who was brilliant at becoming president but not being president."

Video: Liberals Remove "Offensive Words" From Textbooks....

Weasel Zippers "Most absurd in my opinion: Adam and Eve being changed to Eve and Adam (so men don't appear superior)...." Language advisory elsewhere in this site.

Hmmm: Was There a Plant at the Sheila Jackson Lee Town Hall Meeting?

Patterico's Pontifications/ "Some attendees at the meeting spoke in favor of the plan, go so far as to want a system where the government had complete control. One supporter, Dr. Roxana Mayer, a physician who does not live in Jackson Lee’s district, praised the reform plan for overhauling a broken system. “I don’t know what there is in the bill that creates such panic,” she said. MyBarackObama shows a Roxana Mayer was a Texas Delegate for Obama..."

More Health Care Nonsense

Charles Krauthammer "...However, prevention is not, as so widely advertised, healing on the cheap. It is not the magic bullet for health care costs. You will hear some variation of that claim a hundred times in the coming health care debate. Whenever you do, remember: It's nonsense -- empirically demonstrable and CBO-certified."

PELOSI'S UN-AMERICAN PROTESTORS

Boortz "...click on the link and take a look at how Nancy not only lets these protestors have their say, chanting "no more war" but allows them to come up front with all of their anti-war signs and even applauds them!"

NEVER SEEN THE LEFT SO OUT-OF-CONTROL DESPERATE ...

By Neal Boortz This is a major threat to our republic and your future, not to mention the future of your children. Stay awake. Become involved. Be relentless.

SB-2099: Handgun and Safety Registration Act: Urban Legend

Snopes.com Urban legend going around and not true: "Senate Bill SB-2099 will require us to put on our 2009 1040 federal tax form all guns that you have or own. It may require fingerprints and a tax of $50 per gun."

Sarah Palin: Concerning the "Death Panels"

Facebook "[3] During those consultations, practitioners must explain “the continuum of end-of-life services and supports available, including palliative care and hospice,” and the government benefits available to pay for such services. [4]"

Town Hall Protests, Dubious Studies... Must Be August!

The New Republic "You know what the debate over energy and climate change could really use? The sort of calm, thoughtful, reasoned town-hall discussions that have made the health-care discussion such a delight this summer."

Our Aging Deterrent

IBD "President Obama dreams of a world without nuclear weapons. Unless testing and maintenance of our nuclear deterrent is resumed, it will be a world without American nuclear weapons."

Markets Bet ObamaCare Won't Survive

By Larry Kudlow IBD "UnitedHealthcare is up 13%, Humana is up 12.4% and Aetna is up almost 10%. These firms will be decimated if the government insurance plan passes. But investors are now predicting it won't. For the sake of economic freedom, liberty, and fiscal sanity, let's hope the markets are right."

USA Today fact-checks Obama’s town-hall assertions

HotAir "One of the best catches from USA Today concerns Medicare Advantage, about which Obama has lied for over two years:"