NOBEL NOTE TO THE RIGHT: DO IT YOURSELF!

If you want to give George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan a prize of international stature and prestige, go for it. You create the prize, you put up the money, you make the award. Don't criticize; improve.

Impossible, you say? Nobody in 2009 could establish a Prize so prestigious that it could compete with the Nobel awards? I disagree. In 1969, Sveriges Riksbank established its Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. It quickly became known as the "Nobel Prize in Economics."

The message here is simple. If you can do a better job, do it. Do it yourself, with your own money. Do it on your own time and in your own way. Take your own risk and reap your own rewards. Isn't that what real competition is all about? Isn't that the way capitalism is supposed to work? Isn't that the American way?

Then, each June 5 (the anniversary of Ronald Reagan's death) you can announce that while those Nobel Peace pissants awarded their Prize to some Schmucky the Clown back in December, the more prestigious Limbaugh (or Beck or Hannity or whoever) Prize for International Peace (or Fiscal Responsibility, or Disaster Management, or Educational Improvement, or Corporate Accountability, or Governmental Excellence, your pick) goes to George W. Bush. Or Ronald Reagan. Or Warren G. Harding. Or Richard Nixon. Or James Buchanan. The choice will be all yours.

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