CBS: up to 60,000 people have cancelled their AARP memberships since July 1

• Rasmussen:  54% Say Passing No Healthcare Reform Better Than Passing Congressional Plan
  
• WSJ: Palin Wins on Death Panels  - If Obama is brilliant, how did he lose the argument to her?
• The Los Angeles Times reports that Palin has won a legislative victory as well
• Following a furor over how the data would be used, the White House has shut down their electronic tip box — flag@whitehouse.gov — that was set up to receive information on "fishy" claims about President Barack Obama's health plan.
• According to CBS News, up to 60,000 people have cancelled their AARP memberships since July 1, with many switching to the conservative American Seniors Association.
• The Obama administration approved $2 billion in loans to finance offshore oil drilling … for Brazil.
• Have you ever heard of an "End of Life Panel?" Impossible, you say? Maybe you should read this.
• Wake Up! ChiComs on Oil-Buying Binge
• Scientific American: Electric Cars Wreck the Grid
• And He Told Us It Was the American Dream! Obama Shifts Focus to Renting, Not Owning
• Does this sound familiar? "Rule 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions ..."
• HA ! - Barack Obama is going to get a taste of what it is like to be the subject of a Cindy Sheehan protest.
• GM is planning to produce an ultra low-cost compact car that would cost just $4,000
• This is pretty clever ... Health Care: Choose Your Own Adventure.
• Young voters should re-examine Obama: Barone
• Obama Energy Plan Mandates Scarcity: Atlas
• Burt Rutan: engineer, aviation/space pioneer and... active climate skeptic: Watts

A Clunker of a Stimulus from The Foundry by Conn Carroll  Yesterday was the six month anniversary of President Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus package. Since the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" became law, the United States economy has shed nearly 2.8 million net jobs. When Obama signed the stimulus the nation's unemployment rate stood at 7.6%. Today it is 9.4%. Nationwide, a total of fifteen states are now suffering from 10% unemployment. No wonder 57% of Americans recently told Gallup that the stimulus package is either having no impact on the economy or making it worse.