The crowdsourcing armies and the mainstream media gave it their best shot but the unprecedented dig into 24,000 of Governor Sarah Palin's e-mails turned up nothing but proof that she was a competent, engaged leader who did her job well and stuck to her principles. Today cyberspace is thick with the disappointment of all those would-be Woodwards and Bernsteins who had hoped to uncover some embarrassing missive, some hypocritical decision or some gotcha type of proof that the media and her political enemies were right about her all along. They weren't.

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An article from Reuters this morning claimed "The number of U.S. workers filing new applications for unemployment insurance unexpectedly surged last week" (source) which begs the question exactly who's doing the expecting? Anyone living outside the government bubble and the ivory towers of academia knows that the job market is not improving and the recovery that President Obama is constantly bragging about has not reached the working (or suddenly not working) class of America.

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More proof that the Obamacare approach to health care is the wrong way to go: According to an Associated Press expose it is not the profit margins of the insurance companies that are driving health care costs to unsustainable levels. According to the AP, "health insurance profit margins typically run about 6 percent, give or take a point or two. That's anemic compared with other forms of insurance and a broad array of industries, even some beleaguered ones." (source)

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