*Obama’s Dereliction of Duty, by Matt Patterson.

“I cannot bring myself to believe that any president would manipulate the economy in such a manner for his own political purposes. But I do know this:  while Obama continues to fiddle his atonal health care tune, the flames of war and recession and fiscal collapse rage all around him.

Does he care? Does he even understand the precipice upon which we stand?”

ALSO by Patterson: Obama Plays High Stakes Poker on Health-Care

“The summit and subsequent events have revealed two distinct philosophies that are like oil and water, and are likely to mix just about as well. Democrats obsess over the uninsured; the Republicans over cost. Democrats believe it’s the business of the government to dictate coverage; the Republicans that government’s role must be limited and encourage competition. What we’re talking about here is two vastly different views of the nature and rationale of federal authority in our lives, a difference between top down and bottom up, between centralized or diffused power, between government that knows best and liberty that comes first.”

ALSO by Patterson: Fix Medicare First

*Veganism joins Environmentalism as a protected religious group in the UK.

“The legislation also covers “any religious belief or philosophical belief” and even “a lack of belief”.

*Sean Penn believes in jailing people who call Hugo Chavez a dictator. 

*SURPRISE!  National debt to be higher than The White House predicted.

*Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, ObamaCare, at the WSJ.

“Last week President Obama sanctioned “reconciliation,” a complex tactic that would jam ObamaCare into law on sheer power politics. But what if this gambit is really a false-flag operation, meant to lure House Democrats into voting for a bill that they would otherwise oppose? That’s the question many rank-and-file Members are now asking themselves, and they’re right to be worried.”