The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Friday (source: Reuters) it would hear a challenge to the 44-year-old voting rights law aimed at preventing states and local governments from making it harder for minorities to vote. Nine states are affected by the voting rights law: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. Think there’s any coincidence that from this list only Virginia voted for Obama?

Freedom around the world is down for the third straight year (source: Freedom House). Another example of a George Wrongway Bush goal (2nd Inaugural). The full list of other goals are too long to list, but lowlights include the results of the ownership society; compassionate conservatism; no child left behind; the uniter not the divider; immigration reform; peace in the Middle East; et cetera ad nauseum.

2008: the greatest loss of jobs since 1945 (source: Wall Street Journal). What happened in 1945? Oh, yeah. The war ended and our troops came home.

The estimated cost to insure the 47 million US uninsured affordable: $17.8 billion in first year; $188.5 billion in 2010 (source: The Commonwealth Fund) about the cost for a year of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.