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Nancy Pelosi: Hey, the Founders would have been cool with Obamacare; in fact, it's probably something they even had in mind:

Here's some scary stuff, because while this woman is one of the few dumb enough to say it out loud, there are a whole lot of people in government who think exactly the same way . . .

Illinois State Representative Sara Feigenholtz thinks her job is to “give rights” to people.

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OK it's official now. Bill Clinton has a failed ex-presidency:

NEW YORK (AP) -- It's a diplomatic failure at the highest level: Bill Clinton couldn't get Led Zeppelin to reunite.

The CBS "60 Minutes Overtime" webcast reported Monday that the former president was enlisted to ask the British rock gods to get back together last year for the Superstorm Sandy benefit concert in New York City. He asked, they said no.

Ah, the return of an old friend -- on the day of the dedication of George W. Bush's presidntial lirary, the Bush Derangement Syndrome comes out of hiding:

Media Matters took a break from whining about Fox News to weigh in.

The Kindle of its day, or maybe even the iPhone:

Wow. Take a look at that chart. So what happened in the last 200 years? Among other things:

You can get a better understanding of how American culture has changed in the last 100 years by looking at the changes in one organization, such as this fascinating comparison of the Boy Scouts of American 1911 and modern handbooks and merit badges:

Here we go deep into the constitutional weeds. Might be a good time for some of you to run to the refrigerator or take a bathroom break.

Rand Paul and father Ron don't  see the 14th Amendment quite the same way. They especially disagree on the amendment's chief effect of applying the Bill of Rights to state and local governments.

Rand:

Guess this is my day for clips. Margaret Thatcher has died, and dammit anyway. What can I say about somebody I thought enough of to name one of my cats after? There are tons of Thatcher clips I could post, but I like this one, in which she gives the socialists in Parliament a tongue-lashing over the so-called "income gap" that the liberals in this country still can't get over.

Many people have been justifiably derisive of President Obama's recent statements that we need not fear government because "government is us," and we don't need to worry about him, either, because he is "constrained" by the system put in place by the Founders.

Here's what's wrong with those statements: