CONSERVATIVES need not apply. The Department of Justice is seeking qualified mentally retarded lawyers.

OH, THANKS. Social Security tipping over into the red. And my wife and I are (were?) planning to start Social Security in 2011.

SURELY YOU JEST: “The Securities and Exchange Commission is demanding that publicly traded U.S. companies disclose their risks from man-made global warming to shareholders.”

Unfortunately, no.

Please take the stupid pills off the government’s prescription drug formulary ....

WE CAN’T BE SURE what would have happened to the economy without TARP and the stimulus package. But we can be fairly certain that a lot of Obama donors would have had nothing to give in the next election cycle.

Read it all.

TOYOTA RECALL: It’s not about the car.

So let’s set the record straight about how a perfectly normal Toyota, or any other car, truck, or SUV, can accelerate wildly “out of control” with an even reasonably competent driver behind the wheel. Can’t happen. Period. End of story.

But ...

Before the ink dried on breathless press reports, plaintiff lawyers were working overtime to empty Toyota’s colossal corporate coffers. When you combine our culture of victimization, the vilification of corporations, and a big payoff, the result is inevitable.

It's about power. I blame the Obama administration.

EMAIL OF THE DAY: Gonorrhea Lectim.

“OBAMISM” would almost be worth it if:

John Edwards sells his "two Americas" mansion. Al Gore gives his energy-guzzling estate over to poor environmental activists. Warren Buffet forsakes the esoteric deductions that gave him an 18 percent income-tax rate and happily starts paying 60 percent of his income as his "fair share." Bill and Melinda Gates hold back $20 billion or so from the foundation and give it to a broke treasury desperately in need of estate-tax revenue.

Never happen, though.

INSTAPUNDIT ASKS “Why does time fly when you get older?”

That’s easy. When you’re young, there’s an infinite number of tomorrows ahead. At 65, the number of tomorrows is decidedly limited.

DON'T ASK DON'T TELL: gays in the military. A thoughtful post on a number of serious issues that will confront the military if gays are to openly serve.

Gays can already serve in the U.S. military; repealing DADT [Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell] isn’t about allowing them to. It’s about endorsing their sexual orientation in military operations and culture. The course of hands-off neutrality is not an option in these realms; their unique character is to require affirmative policy. Civilians should start by understanding this. The quiescent tolerance they think of in relation to their own lives must translate, in the military, into endorsement and administration of an explicit position. These matters are hard for most people to discuss without emotion, and the tendency of both sides is to focus on what offends them. But it’s essential to understand that no form of offense felt by either side makes the administrative consequences of repealing DADT go away. They are inevitable.

Linked from here.

I DOUBT THAT my Dodge Dakota will look this good in 2078.

Link via Instapundit.

THE DAILY OUTRAGE: The National Science Foundation gave Oklahoma State University researchers $1.1 million in stimulus grants to examine the "larger sociopolitical factors that shape grandparenthood" in Alaska.

The Washington Examiner’s Daily Outrage is more than you ever want to know about Washington’s “pork policy.”


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