*16,000 jobs lost PER DAY since the stimulus passed. 

RELATED: Democrats Must Face the Music, by Jennifer Rubin.

*Sotomayor: Rebut, Then Confirm, by Charles Krauthammer.

*Why Do We Have to Close Guantanamo? Branding, Sillies.  By Dan Calabrese.

“Nice job, Democrats. Create a negative brand image of a facility that represents a national security triumph, then explain that you have no choice but to close it because it sadly has such a bad reputation.”

*The best possible solution?  Doug Kmiec says it’s time for the government to get out of the marriage business.

*Burke and Obama, by Thomas Sowell.

*On the Right in the Land of the Tenured Left, by Harry Stein.

*Not quite sure if this has legs, but who knows.  Furor Grows Over Partisan Car Dealer Closings, by Mark Tapscott.

“Evidence appears to be mounting that the Obama administration has systematically targeted for closing Chrysler dealers who contributed to Republicans…

…The basic issue raised here is this: How do we account for the fact millions of dollars were contributed to GOP candidates by Chrysler who are being closed by the government, but only one has been found so far that is being closed that contributed to the Obama campaign in 2008?”

My first thought is meh.  Obama seems too smart to pull something like this and think he could get away with it.  Then again, this seems very much to be the Chicago Way.  Let’s just call this a wait and see.  For more details, see GatewayPundit, they are all over this.

RELATED: Dealergate and the MSM, by Michelle Malkin.

*The War Against Modernity, by Clifford May.

*The Media, Islam, and Political Correctness, by Cathy Young.

*Your Daily Dose of Awesome: The Stone Age Economics of the Left, or Who Would Jesus Bail Out.

“Most humans value security over liberty, predictability over change, conformity over individuality, and authority over self-rule. So when we see that leftists hate freedom and progress but love authority and conformity, we shouldn’t be the least bit surprised, for it is true of most rank-and-foul humans. Political correctness, statism, micromanagement of our lives — these are all the natural consequences of a dread of liberty.

To finish up with Prager’s thought, he noted that it was God who wanted humans to have freedom, not humans. For the vast majority of human beings, liberty is not a particularly important value, much less the most important one. They would just as soon barter it away for security, as they have done in Western Europe.

Once you understand this, then much about the left begins to make sense. In Europe, we can see how the welfare state puts in place a system of incentives that creates a new kind of enfeebled man, but that’s not exactly correct. In reality, it simply reveals man for what he is — a lazy, frightened, selfish, superstitious, instinct-loving and lowdown rascal. Leftism aims low and always reaches its target.

Only liberty unleashes the possibility of man and reveals what man can be, as an alternative to the unimpressive specter of what he is.”

(H/T Dr. Sanity)

-QC-