... and now President Obama knows it, which is why he is breaking promise after promise when it comes to national security issues.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Will 80 million baby boomers bankrupt Social Security?

Umm, yeah. Where have these people been? If this the first they've heard of demographics and actuarial charts?

The theft case against former Penn-Delco school board member John Green evaporates.

Defense attorney Michael F.X. Gillin acknowledged that his client “may have been a lousy bookkeeper.” But the attorney provided a report from a defense accountant that Green used his own money to help fund the sports booster club that was financially hurting, and when the dues came in, he would reimburse his accounts.

He was charged with stealing a little more than $16,000 from the club which he started. According to an audit, he paid more than $19,000 of his own money to keep it going.

The DAs office says the investigation is "ongoing." What the hell is that supposed to mean? It's been more than two years since Green was charged. If the charges have been dropped what sort of case can be going on?

Here's the Super Bowl ad the National Organization for Woman and NARAL didn't want you to see because it is soooooooooo offensive.

Michael Barone notices how much public employee unions bleed taxpayers. The time is coming when taxpayers will say enough.

Public-sector employees are still heavily outnumbered by those who depend on the private sector for their livelihoods. The next Congress may not be as willing as this one has been to bail out state governments dominated by public-sector unions. Voters may bridle at the higher taxes needed to pay for $100,000-plus pensions for public employees who retire in their 50s. Or they may move, as so many have already done, to states like Texas.

George Will likes Gov. (President?) Mitch Daniels' and (Vice President?) Paul Ryan's plan for the future of America: lower taxes with a simpler tax code, medical savings accounts, etc. These things have been proposed before, maybe, come 2012, people are ready to listen and act.

Headline: I thought of killing myself, says climate scandal professor Phil Jones"

Well that would significantly reduce his carbon footprint.

It's time to get serious about the future. Robert Samuelson says the time for procrastination on entitlement reform is long past. Both political parties are guilty and so are the American people.

Time to extend the SS retirement age to 70 and tax the wealthy more for their social security. Spencerblog's generation is going to bankrupt Spencerblog daughter's generation if Medicare spending is brought under control.

One thing Spencerblog is not sorry is not being in Pennsylvania right now. In any case, my print column is up.

Hayek v. Keynes. I want to party with these guys. But now more than ever, there ain't no such thing as a hang-over free stimulus lunch.

"Editorial: Rose Tree Media taxpayers deserve break"

And the rest of us?

Trial lawyers? Used car salesmen? Climate scientists? Michael Barone says none of the above.

"The global warming movement as we have known it is dead," writes Walter Russell Mead of the Council on Foreign Relations in The American Interest. "The movement died from two causes: bad science and bad politics."

Here it comes. Here I be.

For some reason cell phone laws don't seem to be effective. Pass them anyway, is the attitude of some legislators. My print column is up.

WaPo's Sally Jenkins weighs in on the pro-life ad to air during the Super Bowl.

I'm pro-choice, and Tebow clearly is not. But based on what I've heard in the past week, I'll take his side against the group-think, elitism and condescension of the "National Organization of Fewer and Fewer Women All The Time." For one thing, Tebow seems smarter than they do.

Wow! Read the whole thing.

With the help of former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden, Andrew McCarthy explains the amazing buffoonery of the Obama Administration when it comes to protecting America from terrorists.

Right this minute, President Obama could designate Abdulmutallab an unlawful enemy combatant (or, as they now call it, an “unprivileged belligerent”) and proceed with his interrogation, unimpeded by a defense lawyer or Miranda restrictions. It is a power he has had every minute since Abdulmutallab’s capture five weeks ago. The case would still be there, and it would still be a slam-dunk, whether it were tried two, three, or five years from now. The only potential downside for the case is no downside at all: Prosecutors would not be able to use any statements he makes.

People can blame the attorney general, and there certainly is plenty for which he should answer. But Holder is a sideshow. These decisions are presidential decisions. The fact that Obama evidently delegates them to Holder does not change that. The policy of surrendering enemy combatants to the civilian-justice system and giving them all the rights of the American citizens whom they are trying to kill is an Obama policy being implemented by Holder; it’s not a Holder policy.

Not even Richard Cohen is made to "feel safer" by Obama's handling of terrorists.

The announced closing of Guantanamo has also suffered from a peculiar Obama-style naivete. It is now apparent that there are some bad hombres there who should be detained way past the time they are eligible for AARP membership. It's true that the world does not like Guantanamo, but then it's also true that the world is not an al-Qaeda target.

Apparently, some on the left are finally getting it when it comes to national security.

For some reason this story seems awfully familiar.

On the healthcare debate Politico reports:

Lawrence O’Donnell, the Democratic Senate Finance Committee staff director during the ’93-’94 health care debate, said we’re now witnessing reform’s death throes – and Democrats know it. The party will not be able to pass another reform bill through the Senate, period. 

“Pelosi said that, ‘We don’t have the votes for passing the Senate bill’ and that should have just ended it. Any discussion of another scenario is juvenile,” he said. “It’s ridiculous.”


As late as yesterday, The New Republic's Jonathan Cohn claimed that healthcare is "At the two-yard line" and only needs to be pushed into the end zone. It's on the two-yard line alright, their OWN two-yard line. Democrats are just trying to avoid a sack for a safety.

Larry to Jonathan: Grow up and get real.

UPDATE: A week-old clip of Chris Matthews schooling liberal partisan Rep. Alan Grayson about how legislation is passed and chastising him for sticking to the same silly talking points.