It's official.  The Minnesota Supreme Court has officially declared the election for the Senate a travesty worthy of Iran and the ayatollahs.  Although Coleman received more votes on election day, votes for Franken magically appeared during the recount.  We deserve honest elections.  This travesty should not be allowed to stand.  Franken should be recalled.

During his news conference, President Obama suggested federal employees have a public health care option.  This is untrue.  Federal employees can select from a number of private sector health insurance companies.

For the most part, President Obama's jokes at the correspondents' dinner fell flat.  He had one good one though.  He said he was lying awake in bed one night trying to think of things to say.  He couldn't think of anything so he rolled over to ask Brian Williams for advice.  It was a funny joke, but a little weird - and a little creepy.

During his correspondents' dinner speech,  Barack Obama referred to the White House as his house.  Unbelievable.  His hubris knows no bounds.

 Obama's Egypt speech was a flop.  The election results in Iran show that America remains the great satan, at least in that part of the world.  This is a major setback for Obama.

President Obama has warned us of a pending economic catastrophe. He ought to know. He's creating one. The new programs he promised in his speech to Congress will massively increase federal spending. He promised universal health care, universal college education, subsidies for alternative energy, and more bailout money for banks and homeowners This is in addition to the money already appropriated for economic stimulus and the TARP. The result will be a deficit approaching $3 trillion. Instead of learning a lesson from the home mortgage meltdown, he has decided to employ the same economic model. Just as a person overextended himself by taking out a loan he could never pay back, Obama wants the whole country to overextend itself by taking out loans it will never pay back. The Treasury will borrow the money by selling bonds. The Federal Reserve will create money to buy the bonds and the Treasury will spend the money on all the things Obama wants to do. The government is essentially borrowing from itself with money it creates. It's a deal that would make Bernie Madoff proud. But just as there is a day of reckoning for the homeowner who took out a mortgage he couldn't afford, there will be a day of reckoning for a country that borrows beyond its means. Obama's plan to increase taxes on 2 percent of the population won't even make a dent in the mountain of debt he is piling up. All of these new spending programs will, at some point have to be paid for. That increase in taxes for 2 percent will become an increase for 5 percent, then 10 percent, then 20 percent and ultimately 100 percent. The massive expansion in the money supply will debase the currency and lead to inflation. Higher inflation will lead to higher interest rates and higher unemployment. The Obama spending binge will make the current situation much, much worse. It will give us higher prices, higher interest rates, higher taxes, and higher unemployment.

The stock market was recovering from a steep 600 point drop this morning, then President Bush went on TV to reassure the markets.  The stock market promptly went into the tank.  This has been happening with disturbing regularity.  The stock market begins to recover, then someone from the Bush administration, whether Paulson or Bush or someone else comes out to tell us everything is all right, and the stock market goes into a tailspin.  Investors are understandly wary about the government's ability to solve the financial crisis.  Instead of reassuring the market, government officials are conveying a feeling of panic and a sense that they do not know what they are doing.  The market will sort out the market.  The government has done enough already.  Instead of coming up with more plans and issuing more "reassuring" statements the government should just stop and let the market digest what has already been done.