I might get a bumper sticker

I went and saw Dennis Prager, Michael Medved, and William Bennett speak last night in Roseville. What they had to say was very familiar to what's on their radio shows, though without the commercials, and it was a good evening.

Dennis said he's making bumper stickers with the following statement, and I just might get one:

"The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen."

an inconvenient truth

Great article on Earth Day predictions from 1970.

A substantive health care reform proposal

Michael Tanner @ Cato injects some (free market) reality into the health care debate here.

A video is worth how many words?

The expansion of federal power via the unpopular health care "reform" has hit several stumbling blocks, including the senate filibuster. Democrats are now threatening to ram through legislation now without regard to the filibuster, in move called reconciliation. Not so long ago, however, Democrats were the minority party, and these same politicians (Obama, Hillary Clinton, Biden, and Reid, to name a few) had a very different view of bypassing the filibuster. I can't recommend this video highly enough.

Editorial of the day

A couple Utah state legislators make a very interesting proposal.

A modest proposal to the federal government: Let Utah do it

I've often thought that the federal government tries to do things better left to the states, though to be fair I think government at all levels is generally too big. The experiment they propose deserves consideration in DC, though I doubt it will receive it.

Seriousness of purpose

On the same day is posted this video, of Barack Obama stating that

"The people who sent us here expect a seriousness of purpose that transcends petty politics."

while his press secretary is busy ridiculing Sarah Palin.

Can anyone explain to me how ridiculing the other party lives up to your talk of a seriousness of purpose that transcends petty politics?

Editorial of the day

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/rolling_in_dough_IEQqExWnRonswRVQZcl3WM

Rich Lowry opines on the contrast between the employment situation in the public and private sectors during this recession.