this is the difference I see between liberal and conservative writers. There’s a lot of right-wing anger at Obama from “base” voters and talk radio, but when it comes to conservative columnists, pundits who’re treated as serious thinkers, it’s mostly respectful disagreement. on the other hand liberal columnists might not be as hardcore as select left-wing activists, but there seems to be a shared view of the GOP as essentially illegitimate.

I don’t say this because I think Obama is above ordering any of these things. I say it more because Obama, as result of his personality, his lack of executive experience, and the media’s kid-gloves, appears to be one of the least engaged executives in presidential history. Perhaps his work schedule of long vacations and perpetual campaigning, interspersed with solitary evenings perusing bullet-list proposals prepared with boxes for his “yes” or “no” check mark, is finally catching up with him. (I don’t exaggerate there – that is supposedly how Obama governs and communicates with most of his staff).

So again, I would not be surprised in the least if Obama has full knowledge of one or more of these scandals. But I will also not be surprised if we find that Obama just doesn’t have his hands on the wheel and his administration of hard-core leftists is running wild without executive supervision.

Many good-paying jobs in healthcare are available. Medical ultrasound technicians, for example, can start work with an annual salary that rivals that of a first-year family practice physician. Tech training: about six months.

Nurse practitioners do very well financially working as nurse anesthetists, midwives, and in other specialties that replace (or augment) physician care for patients who are not at risk and whose care can be considered routine. Training: 2 years for an RN and an additional 2 years for a nurse practitioner. Thus, with just 4 years of schooling, the nurse anesthetist provides anesthesia in operating rooms and delivery rooms and the midwife is out delivering babies. Would any college graduate with a bachelor’s degee be given such responsibility? They’re lucky if they get to use the photocopier at work all by themselves.

If you’re going to Harvard or Notre Dame or some top flight school with a plan that is one thing, but going to Florida Atlantic or Boise State and studying communications is probably a loser idea.

A few years in the Marines aren’t the worst idea either, even though the regime you’re serving is increasingly hostile to the class of people who serve it.