These are my links for May 11th from 13:26 to 14:37:

• Mitt Romney: As first act, out with ObamaCare – Health care is more than just one-sixth of the American economy. It is a source of well-being for individuals and families. We are blessed with much that is good in American health care. But we have taken a turn for the worse with ObamaCare, with its high taxes and vastly expanded federal control over our lives. I believe the better course is to empower the states to determine their own health care futures.======

  Read it all….

  Go for it Mitt!

• California High-speed train trip going nowhere – The latest criticism was issued Tuesday by the Legislature’s budget analyst, Mac Taylor, in a report fittingly called “High-Speed Rail Is at a Critical Juncture.”If the project is to have a chance of success, Taylor’s staff concluded, it needs a thorough re-evaluation, a shift from the rail authority to the Department of Transportation, and a business plan that fully identifies costs, ridership and how it could operate without subsidies as state law dictates.

  The report is especially scornful of the proposed track to nowhere in the San Joaquin Valley.

  In other words, Taylor implies, it’s time to either shape up the project or dump it, although the words that his report uses are much more diplomatic, such as “challenging choices.”

  There’s probably no way for California to gather the untold tens of billions of dollars in construction money the system would require and operate bullet trains without subsidies or “revenue guarantees” to private investors.

  However, before the rail authority moves dirt and pushes us into a bottomless money pit, we’d best find out for certain – and have the guts to call it quits if the project doesn’t add up.

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  The business plan needs to be re-evaluated and the project scraped if it does not pencil out.

• President 2012 Poll Watch: Obama Gets a Bounce – Obama – 47% Vs. Romney – 42% | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012 Poll Watch: Obama Gets a Bounce – Obama – 47% Vs. Romney – 42% #tcot #catcot
• What went wrong with Palin? – Right Turn – The Washington Post – What went wrong with Palin?
• What went wrong with Palin? – One can’t but feel that Palin was not only snared in the web of resentment but that it determined a particular course for her post-2008 career. She embarked on a particular path, one incompatible with being a serious force on conservative policy and a credible presidential contender. You can understand how easy and alluring (not to mention profitable) became the new role as political martyr. The “lamestream media” perfectly encapsulated the Joan of Arc complex, the blame-game and the focus on herself that swamped her public image.But one can’t really call it a “tragedy” as Green does. She’s attained fame and fortune and she has as loyal a following as any popular figure. But she made a choice — to bear grudges, to forgo serious policy study, to reject the advice of all but a handful of advisers. It is a shame for those who saw a star-quality and enviable political talent. But tragedy? No. She simply chose a different path.

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  Certainly a choice Sarah has made….