Looks like a GOP blowout is shaping up in the Keystone State:

Republican Tom Corbett now holds a 12-point lead over Democrat Dan Onorato in the race for Pennsylvania’s next governor.

The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone of Likely Voters shows Corbett, the state’s attorney general, picking up 53% of the vote. Onorato, Allegheny’s county executive, draws 41% of the vote…

Toomey is comfortably ahead in the Senate race and in the House races it looks like the GOP has a good shot of making large gains. Bottom line: this State which has eluded the GOP for many years is now falling in to our lap…and if we can keep it up through 2012, we will make it nearly impossible for Obama to be re-elected.

From CNN Money:

Tens of thousands of low-income workers lost their jobs Thursday as a stimulus-subsidized employment program came to an end.

About a quarter of a million people in 37 states were placed in short-term jobs thanks to a $5 billion boost to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. States used about $1 billion to provide subsidized employment, with the remaining funds going to cash grants, food programs, housing assistance and other aid…

Stimulus doesn’t work. I’ll try to make this simple so even you liberals out there might understand:

For the government to “stimulate” something, they have to get the money from somewhere. Whether they tax it away, borrow it or steal it by printing more currency, it all comes out of the productive economy. If you then hire someone to do some make-work government job, you’re not actually making any wealth with the money you’ve taken from the productive economy. Its a dead loss – and the people so hired can only be kept employed by taking even more money out of the productive economy.

The whole thing has been a waste of time and money. All of the Obama-led, Democratic economic program has failed. It doesn’t work. It can’t work. Only a radical change back to a free market will do.

How do I know? By reading the MSM report about it:

Thousands of people flocked to the Lincoln Memorial for a rally Saturday organized by labor and civil rights groups, hoping to show support for the Democratic agenda in the face of expected GOP election gains next month…(emphasis added)

When the MSM says “thousands” of liberals show up, you can bet its slightly over 2,000 to somewhat less than 10,000. Had it been over 10,000, the MSM would have reported “tens of thousands”. Over 100,000 and the MSM would have had an orgasm and called it the biggest demonstration, ever.

In contrast, the Beck rally this is supposed to counter got at least 300,000. And the liberals here had all sorts of liberal groups footing the bill – even with this sort of intense organization, the left still can’t get the troops in to the streets.

No one cares any longer what the left is saying or doing. “Hope and change” has turned to ashes.

Not at all surprising news:

Conservationists are overestimating the number of species that have been driven to extinction, scientists have said.

A study has found that a third of all mammal species declared extinct in the past few centuries have turned up alive and well.

Some of the more reclusive creatures managed to hide from sight for 80 years only to reappear within four years of being officially named extinct in the wild…

To say they are “overestimating” the number of species going extinct is to be very kind to them. A more accurate headline for this would be, “scientists discover that environmentalist doomsayers are making stuff up”. I mean, come now, when they say “x number of species go extinct every day”, how could they have ever possible known? Its a nonsense statement to make.

But it is an effective statement if you’re merely trying to drive up donations and drive the debate in a certain way. Environmentalist groups needs money (got to pay for all that private jet travel by the likes of Gore, don’t you know?), and they don’t really want to debate. If the argument is about “which particular species actually went extinct, today”, then the environmentalists will lose the debate, as most of the time most species are doing just fine.

As I’ve said before, we live in an Age of Lies and these lies prevent us from developing rational policy. The environmentalists are past-masters at ginning up fake problems and stampeding people in to going along. We must cut through the nonsense of our times before we can even really get started at fixing things.

Suggestion from the Mrs – they have to stand naked in the center of the Rutgers campus for a day with everyone free to take pictures of them.

What would jail do? How long could you keep them in jail? Our desire is that this not be repeated – that at least a minimal standard of decency be instilled in people. In olden times, we’d probably have flogged these boys for this sort of offense. I’d personally still prefer that – laying a few stripes on the backs of the dishonorable always provides a useful lesson – but we are very cowardly in our increasing barbarism, so such is not possible. But, this suggestion does seem to fit the crime.

Discuss.

That being the most trenchant comment I’ve seen on this environmentalist campaign:

And worst part of it – done in service of that complete hoax known as global warming.

There’s a reason I call these people anti-human.

UPDATE: Iowahawk discovers the agency which made the ad…Splodey, Youngblood, Gutz & Bones.

Will the last person to leave the DNC please shut out the lights?

For the second month in a row, the number of Americans who identify themselves as Democrats has fallen to a record low.

In September, 34.6% of American Adults identified themselves as Democrats. That’s down nearly half a percentage point from a month ago, a full percentage point from two months ago, and is the smallest percentage of Democrats ever recorded in nearly eight years of monthly tracking….

The sorta-bad news for the GOP is that no one really wants to be a Republican, either…but we’re at least tending to hold steady in our numbers as people get set to give us one last chance…but the Democrats are being hammered.

Anyways, just more fun for November…

William Jacobson over at Legal Insurrection notices what Allred has actually done to Whitman’s former maid:

The other interesting aspect, quite apart from politics, is Allred’s willingness to expose her client to legal harm even though the client does not have any meaningful legal claim. This is not a case where Allred’s client is a crime victim who comes forward to the police. There does not appear to be a violation of any law by Whitman, but there does appear to be both immigration and possibly criminal violations by Allred’s client, who filed false documents with the government. By going public as she has, Allred has exposed her client to significant legal jeopardy in order to score publicity and political points for Allred.

By her own statements, Ms. Diaz broke the law – she is liable for criminal prosecution and Allred exposed Ms. Diaz to this jeopardy simply to help her Democrats score a point against Meg Whitman. This is the most ruthless and cruel using of a fellow human being imaginable. Diaz doesn’t matter – she’s just a prop in a liberal, Democrat narrative. This is not the first time we’ve seen this – look at the way the left cruelly exploited Cindy Sheehan in order to score propaganda points against President Bush.

The people on the left are getting really rather disgusting these days – but I guess that is what we can expect from a Ruling Class which is about to be ejected from power.

UPDATE: Greta Van Susteren destroyed Allred and Gateway Pundit has the video.

Because in the “new normal”, its going to be around for a while:

…Washington and Wall Street are coming around to the idea that the economic future we’re stumbling towards will be far less generous from the normality we long for. The “New Normal” — a disarmingly benign term coined by Mohamed El-Erian, co-chief investment officer of the big California investment firm Pimco — envisions a future of sluggish growth, international discord, increased uncertainty and minuscule returns on capital. Government revenues shrink while spending remains high…

It is that last bit which ensures that we will flounder – “while spending remains high”. There is, to be sure, a demographic reality which will be hard to cope with: soon, some time within the next few decades, the human population of the world will probably start to decline. But that problem is manageable (and will probably be relatively short-lived…I expect that as secular people die off, the believing remnant – especially the Christian part of it – will rise to greater power and thus start to enforce policies which encourage family formation and child-rearing): what is not manageable is our debt. We simply have too much of it.

It appears that the real debt of the United States is about equal to all the money in the world. Meanwhile, the rest of the world has not been slack at piling up unsustainable debt, on its own. The net of all this is way too much debt being supported by less and less wealth – and this debt prevents us from developing the economic sinews which would allow us to offset the coming decline in population.

It could get very ugly – but at best is will just be bad. Maybe a bit of growth here and there, from time to time, but mostly stagnation. The debt prevents us from doing what we need – balance the budget and start paying off debt, and ever more money will flow in to the productive economy. Its really a pretty simple choice – the only thing lacking so far is the political will to really cut spending.