I recommend this Heritage Foundation paper: Why Government Spending Does Not Stimulate Economic Growth: Answering the Critics, by Brian M. Riedl

I saw a cartoon depicting two bureaucrats considering the government’s role in saving General Motors. One of them asked the other: “If we can make people buy health insurance, why can’t we make them buy a Chevy?”

Well, it turns out that global warming is man-made. It was made (up) by those scientists in England and their colleagues who were exposed by the e-mail hacker.

Can you think of anything more absurd than the assertion that the science of man-made global warming is settled? Your president believes that. The science is not settled on anything, much less the effect of human activity on the global average temperature 100 years from now.

The media are still debating whether the Fort Hood attack was an act of terrorism or a crime. It seems obvious to me that it was both.

Have you ever heard of a coach calling a press conference to boast that his team would have lost by a wider margin without his clever game plan? Well, that’s essentially what Obama is doing when he claims that his stimulus policy is saving jobs while the jobless ranks keep growing. Both claims might be true but just shut up about it until you start winning.

An article on the federal budget for the next decade includes this item: Additional discretionary spending, $1,545 billion. Rounding to the nearest billion means the real amount could be 500 million more or 500 million less. If we’re talking about discretionary spending I suppose it’s not supposed to matter if $500 million is lost in the noise.

It’s looking like being a student in Chicago is almost as dangerous as being a soldier in Afghanistan. 22 fatalities so far this year. And this is where our president got his start as a “community organizer” — and where many of his closest advisors are from.

It is well known that Al Gore claimed that he invented the internet. Does he also think the term “algorithm” honors his work in mathematics? Or in music?

One of life’s little incongruities: Prison officials in Wisconsin sentenced an inmate to 90 days in solitary confinement … for refusing to leave solitary confinement.