ON AFGHANISTAN

Victor Davis Hansen: Voting "present" is not an option.

HOW TO WIN THE SENIOR VOTE

Tax such frivolous luxuries as pacemakers, stents, artificial heart valves, defibrillators, automated wheelchairs, mechanized artificial limbs, replacement hips and knees, surgical gurneys, laparoscopic equipment and the like.

PROGRESSIVES AND DIVERSITY

Why move to the suburbs of your stodgy Midwest city to escape African Americans and get criticized for it when you can move to Portland and actually be praised as progressive, urban and hip?

Among the media, academia and within planning circles, there’s a generally standing answer to the question of what cities are the best, the most progressive and best role models for small and mid-sized cities. The standard list includes Portland, Seattle, Austin, Minneapolis, and Denver.

But look closely at these exemplars and a curious fact emerges. [These] “progressive” cities aren’t red or blue, but another color entirely: white.

It's so much easier to be progressive if you don't have to worry about diversity.

Via Instapundit.

THE SHOT (NOT YET) HEARD AROUND THE WORLD

Republican Sarah Palin endorsed Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffmann in the New York 23rd district Concressional Race over Republican Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava. In her endorsement, Palin wrote:

Political parties must stand for something. When Republicans were in the wilderness in the late 1970s, Ronald Reagan knew that the doctrine of "blurring the lines" between parties was not an appropriate way to win elections.

That’s a clear shot across the bow of the Republican ship of state. If the Republican Party doesn’t get its act together soon and start acting like a conservative party, it will soon go the way of the dodo – and deservedly so.

IT’S OFFICIAL

The mainstream media is certifiably insane. My favorite part:

Journalists have been laid-off across the country, because of the media’s broken business model. Surely, the Key News can recruit a less-biased reporter.

Except that in a nut house, the selection is limited.

NATIONAL EMERGENCY?

President Obama signed a proclamation declaring the H1N1 influenza a national emergency, giving doctors and medical facilities greater leeway in responding to the flu pandemic.

Mickey Kaus wonders if it’s a trumped-up crisis (scroll down).

So do I. Scare tactic is more like it.

[Update] And Michael Fumento has the data.

OBAMACARE IS FOR PEONS

Like taxes, ObamaCare is for little people.

Via Instapundit.

POLISH MISSILE DEFENSE

Biden wins Polish OK for new missile plan.

The Poles are going to do just fine under the new missile defense plans, ... They were smart not to make a fuss and fight the Obama administration, but instead to try to figure out ways to enhance their security with the “new guys in charge."

As the English idiom goes, “beggars can’t be choosers.” My sympathies to the Poles – they’re between a rock and a hard place.

AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH

On the MSM meltdown with Fox News over Obama. What bothers the MSM is that they no longer get to control what is defined as “news” – now I do.

IT'S HERE

Obamanism.

VOTING ROUGE

No, it’s not a typo. The anti-Palin forces, led by The Nation, are publishing Going Rouge the same day that Sarah Palin’s book Going Rogue is due to be released.

Coincidence? I think not. The “progressives” are fearing for their agenda.