RECOVERY BUMMER (CONT’D): House Report: Obama’s Gulf Oil Slowdown Costing 230,000 Jobs. “The oil lease regulatory process is holding holding back oil exploration and production activity in the Gulf of Mexico. This delay is and this is holding economic benefits that spread past the gulf states, to the entire country if the gulf oil activity activity were allowed to match industry capacity. That was one of the important findings Restarting “the Engine”–Securing American Jobs, Investment, and Energy Security, a study done by IHS CERA and IHS Global Insight which was released by the House Oversight Committee today.”

AT AMAZON, it’s the Friday Sale!

WELL, THAT WOULD BE TERRIBLE: Hoyer: Balanced Budget Amendment Would ‘Make it Virtually Impossible to Raise’ Taxes.

HEALTHY HABITS that women can learn from men.

AILING U.S. ECONOMY SEEKS JOBS DOC: “Every time I hear that question, or listen to a politician talk about a jobs plan, or read an accusation by one party that the other party has none, I wince. Since when is it government’s job to create jobs?”

I’d be happy if it would just stop killing them.

VIDEO: Watch 20 Democratic Senators say they support a balanced budget amendment, so why won’t they pass the Cut, Cap and Balance Act?

Especially given its overwhelming popularity with Americans of all stripes.

THE HILL: Reports of Progress, Outrage From Dems Insisting On New Taxes. When the election comes, remind them that they insisted on new taxes.

BOB KRUMM: What Washington really fears: being out of money and out on their ass. “Conventional wisdom on both sides of the Atlantic is that an immediate failure to address the liquidity problems faced by both Athens and Washington will plunge the world into a new era of darkness. Conventional wisdom, as it so often is, is wrong. The problem is not illiquidity; it is insolvency, and it is a problem shared to some degree by not just the governments of Greece and the US, but by most Western nations around the globe.”

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: The Left’s Big Lie About Allende.

Elected with just 36% of the vote in a split election, he believed he had a mandate to ram through a hard-core Marxist program of expropriation and indoctrination like that of his mentor, Cuba’s Fidel Castro.

In the process Allende left Chile’s economy in ruins and trampled the rule of law so badly he brought his country to the brink of civil war. He was stopped only when the legislature charged him with 22 constitutional violations and ordered Chile’s military to oust him.

As Chilean jets strafed La Moneda presidential palace Sept. 11, 1973, Allende shot himself with a gold-plated submachine gun given him by Castro.

At the request of Allende’s family, an official investigation in May exhumed the dead man’s body, conducted forensic tests and on Tuesday found that, yes, Allende took his own life. It was what his family always believed, consistent with the tone of his final speech and a family history of suicides.

But rather than listen to the family, the global left used Allende’s death for political purposes, falsely claiming he was killed. They did it for one reason: to discredit America and Chile’s successful free-market reforms that stand in stark contrast to Allende’s socialist failures.

Hugo Chavez with better PR. But it was easier to control the PR back then.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: ABA Responds To Senator Grassley About Law School Accreditation.

AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA, NO MEANS NO — and so does “Yes.” Colleges are going to wind up as finishing schools for girls, because they’re becoming so thoroughly anti-male. May they have joy of that future.

SO IS THIS THE HOPE, OR THE CHANGE? Return of Mass Layoffs a Grim Sign for U.S. Workers.

THE SOCIAL GOSPEL AND HYPOCRISY: When the American church helped usher in Social Security, it abdicated its responsibility to care for the poor.

10 WAYS not to be rich.

AT AMAZON, the Toy Outlet sale.

YOU GO, GIRL: Linda Hamilton Invites Herself To The Ball.

CHANGE: “It’s a political machine now.” It always was.

STEVEN CROWDER ON Bill Maher and sexism.

THE UPS AND DOWNS OF first-date nookie.

CHANGE: Cut, Cap, And Balance Gets 2-1 Approval Among Adults in CNN Poll. Not “likely voters,” but adults. “However, if you expect the CNN story about its own poll to highlight this result, then you obviously haven’t been reading CNN long. . . . In other words, a consensus exists across all political lines that the CCB/BBA approach would be a good idea. When one scrolls down to the crosstab sections of the raw data, the consensus becomes very, very clear. The CCB/BBA approach wins majorities in every single demographic — including self-described liberals. Sixty-three percent of Democrats back the House bill. The least supportive age demographic is 50-64YOs at 62/37; the least supportive regional demographic is the Midwest at 61/39. Even those who express opposition to the Tea Party supports it 53/47. In other words, it’s a clean sweep. Simply put, there is no political demographic at all where the CCB/BBA doesn’t get majority support.”

WHY BOTHER with Marshall McLuhan.

INSTAVISION: I talk to Iain Murray about his new book, Stealing You Blind: How Government Fat Cats Are Getting Rich Off of You. (Bumped). And here’s the YouTube version, for non-PJTV subscribers.

DID SEN. TOM HARKIN’S OFFICE engage in witness-tampering?

THE WORLD’S strangest hotels.

KEY TO A HAPPY MARRIAGE: Fat husband, skinny wife? Pass the Doritos. And bring me a beer.