Morning Coffee

It is a source of wonder to me that the day can be brightened by a cup of roasted bean wash water, known more commonly as Coffee. I am further amazed that people would pay the exorbitant prices charged by Starbucks. Is this another example of America;s apathy and laziness? Or did Starbucks find that there was a niche market for a company to sell coffee products at high prices? I think that is probably a combination of the two. But if some one does not want to go to Starbucks and pay that much for a cup of joe, what other actions does he have? There are amazingly few options. There is the ubiquitous convenience store coffee which can be any thing from freshly made to the far extreme. I have had some good experiences with coffee from truck stops, probably due to the fact that they almost always have refill the machine on a hourly basis. If you wish for breakfast at the same time then your best bet is to go to a drive through like Hardee's or Mcdonald's. The main problem with the drive through coffee is that the workers making the coffee are interested only in making a large amount of hot liquid. They usually end up with too hot bitter coffee that barely deserves the title of coffee. So what is the verdict? Maybe Starbucks has a good business plan. Now if they would just lower their prices......

Watch it now

C-Span recorded the General Session this morning and is replaying that recording right now.

Three Important Words

This a.m. Dallas Woodhouse, North Carolina Director for AFP spoke to the Summit, "You are the embodyment of three of the most important words ever put together in the English language, and no, North Carolina, it is not 'Start your engines.'" It is "We the People."

A Good One

Larry Kudlow says his mantra is "If you tax more, you get less. If you tax less, you get more."

Kudlow, after having dinner with them president-elect Obama in January of this year says, "He's charming, good sense of humor, an attractive young man (I'm 62, so I can say he's a young man.), but he did not know a bloody thing about the way our economy works."

One of Us

The spokeswoman for Patients United Now is a stay-at-home mother homeschooling five children.

A Challenge

John Fund, of the Wall Street Journal:

"I have good news.I am one of the few speakers standing between you and lunch."

"This bill won't take effect for four years. Why must it be voted on in the next seven weeks."

"Your parents, or maybe yourselves, beat back liberalism and Jimmy Carter in 1977. You and your predecessors beat back liberalism and Bill Clinton in 1993... I say we have won the first two rounds, let's win the third!.

Six Things to Do

Hugh Hewitt:

"I would like to thank Tim Phillips for putting me on after Newt Gingrich, Jim DeMint, Herman Cain and Dallas Woodhouse. I am here on behalf of a great defender of freedom, Rush Limbaugh...

Hewitt went on to give us a list of six things we need to do:

1-Support the conservatives in the gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey;

2-Minimize the damage of people helping health care;

3-Educate people on our broken legal system;

4-Relentlessly expose the left wing (Kudos to Andrew Breitbart and the crew against ACORN at BigGovernment.com);

5-Credential young people, support youth politics, make them a project to get them ready for the future; and

6-Stay with Israel, our only ally in the Middle East.