Peggy Noonan on the short-sightedness of our leaders

I haven't been too thrilled by Peggy Noonan in the last year or so. She has a good column out now though. She talks about how our current leaders (and she can't even really say that the blame is on Obama and the Democrats) keep on piling on regulations and taxes as if America can take anything and maybe (probably?) it can't.

I like that she pointed out the stupidity of New York politicians:

"This week the New York Post carried a report that 1.5 million people had left high-tax New York state between 2000 and 2008, more than a million of them from even higher-tax New York City. They took their tax dollars with them—in 2006 alone more than $4 billion.

You know what New York, both state and city, will do to make up for the lost money. They'll raise taxes."

I think she has some good points... America is on the brink and the Democrats appear more than willing to push the country off the cliff.

Thomas Sowell describes Obama's radical agenda

It is really scary when laid out point by point as Sowell does in this piece.

Why the American public doesn't want Obama-care

Here is a good opinion piece by Arthur Brooks detailing why so many aspects of Obama-care are antithetical to American values and desires. Things like taking responsibility for one's own actions, being fiscally responsible, promoting an individual's desire to make choices vs. those choices being made by some government bureaucrat- these are all things that the American public value and desire and they are taken away by Obama-care. Let's hope it can be stopped.

Interesting Popular Mechanics post on the Augustine report

Popular Mechanics has a good post with some significant points from the Augustine report indicating that the gap between retirement of the Shuttle and the activation of an Ares 1/Orion capability would be more like 7 years. Yeesh. That is too long of a gap.

The final Augustine panel report on manned space flight options

The Augustine panel released its final report on manned spaceflight options for NASA. It seems that there is still plenty of confusion about what to do next. Here is some discussion from spacepolitics.com.

OMG! A fair and balanced piece on global warming from the BBC

It is hard to believe, but there is a fair and balanced piece on global warming on the BBC website pointing out things like the fact that global temperatures have actually been cooling since 1998.

THEY CAN'T BE SERIOUS??!!!!

I almost fell out of my bed this morning when I heard the news that Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace prize. I mean... the guy HASN'T DONE ANYTHING!!!! It is even more absurd when you consider that the nomination deadline was February 1... at which point Obama had only been president for TEN DAYS. We really are living in the Bizarro world. I guess what Rush always says is right... with the liberals what one says is more important than what one actually does.

Ireland caves to the EU

There's a good post here from "the Corner" on Ireland's recent ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon which paves the way for a European super-state. It is sad that Ireland and other European countries are giving up on their sovereignity. Let's hope that, as outlined in the article, Poland and the Czech Republic bail on this march to a United States of Europe.

Boy does Obama look like a rube now or what?

Chicago has been eliminated in the first round of voting for the 2016 Olympics... but, hey, Barack and Michelle got a free trip to Copenhagen and got to party with Oprah and other friends so it's all worthwhile, right?