Venezuela: the decision to become a nation of cattle

Chavez beats Capriles by ten points. Interviews  with Chavez supporters reveal a recurrent theme:  the preference for redistribution over opportunity.

Look for the axis of mischief and West-hatred to be emboldened by this development.

Re: Friday government numbers, the hot topic has been those BLS figures, but this one from the USDA is pretty damn noteworthy

Food stamp usage continues to break records.

When the full light of factuality beams upon her disingenuousness, she folds like a cheap card table

Stephanie Cutter is forced to admit, under the withering and relentless questioning of a CNN anchor, that Mitt's tax plan does make sense and is revenue-neutral.

Today's must-read (and send it to every person you can think of who can possibly be persuaded to vote pro-American revival)

IBD editorial on the five phony economic myths on which the MEC's re-election bid rests.

HT: Wolf Howling

The Dinner Table

Another powerful ad that deserves the widest airing possible.

The guys on the ground knew north Africa was crawling with jihadists

Career intelligence officers are steaming mad over the regime's attempt to distract the world from the mounting terror threat in Libya and Egypt over the course of the last few months.

A nice little talking point for the regime, but certainly no indicator of robust recovery

Yes, the unemployment figure dropped below 8% for the first time in the MEC's rule, but it still doesn't keep up with population growth by a long stretch.

The Chicago way

An NAACP official on the south side says he was threatened during a phone conversation by a MEC campaign staffer for not supporting the MEC.

The aphorism about the stopped clock comes to mind

Bernie's warning

Now, that's what we've been looking for

Incredible debate performance.  Polls by CBS and CNN show that Mitt looked much more like a suitable leader for a superpower.  Even Chris Matthews, Bill Maher and Peter Beinart conceded that the Most Equal Comrade got his clock cleaned.

Has me licking my chops for the foreign-policy debate.  I think Mitt now understands that he is surrounded by low-hanging fruit.

Yet another damning video of the Most Equal Comrade in full class warfare mode

Not only is he an America-hating race baiter, he clearly doesn't care that a University of Chicago audience can see plainly that he knows nothing about business or economics, as indicated by his vulgar and cartoonish depiction of "executives in some faraway place" arbitrarily decreeing plant closings.

There has never been such a dangerous and poisonous figure in American history.

The utterly mad worldview of the Most Equal Comrade

Eliana Johnson at NRO's The Corner distills the five most noteworthy remarks from the Hampton University speech.

Darrell Issa to the H-word Creature: How much of the concern - since at least April - of the US mission in Libya about shaky security did you know about?

There is quite a list of steadily more alarming incidents going back to spring that had our diplomatic and intelligence folks spooked.  Why was nothing done to address their concerns?  Maybe the H-word Creature will come forth with answers by Issa's requested date.  Or maybe she won't.

And just remember, the only reason a solution is not happening is that the Freedom-Haters want to keep their base energized with class envy

Rather chilling AP article on just what the fiscal cliff will mean for middle-class households.  It doesn't have to be that way.  We could extend the tax rates we've had in place since 2003 and avoid the catastrophe.  But then how would the regime demagogue against successful Americans?

(And, of course, to fully climb out of our situation, we'll need yet deeper cuts, along with prying the state's regulatory fingers off of people's freely-engaged-in economic activity.  And then it's time to dismantle most cabinet-level departments.  But let's not get ahead of ourselves.)

Docs want him out

Per a Jackson & Coker survey, physicians will be voting for Romney over the MEC by a 55 to 36 percent margin.