IF PRESIDENT OBAMA IS 'AMUSED’ by the Tea Partier’s distaste for ObamaCare, then what must he think of the Constitution?


by Nate Beeler at the Washington Examiner.

DEMOCRATS AT THE EDGE OF THE ELECTORAL CLIFF with a long fall to the bottom.

We can only hope.

POPULISM OF THE PRIVILEGED: the Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto laughs at the Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne.

OBAMA’S SPACE PROGRAM; more conservative than Bush’s space program.

Rand Simberg, who blogs at Transterrestial Musings, argues in favor of the Obama plan for restructuring America’s manned space program, believing it is, at least, a (poorly conceived and badly executed) step in the right direction toward space colonization.

Others, including Neil Armstrong and many in the astronaut corps, strongly disagree.

In the long run, I have to agree with Simberg. Manned spaceflight will never be more than a ‘lab curiosity’ until the next Pan Am starts scheduled suborbital and orbital service. In the short term, though, the astronauts are correct; Constellation is needed to ‘keep the dream alive’ until Pan American World Spaceways is in operation.

The pity is that this argument should have been had - and settled - 15 years ago.

OBAMANOMICS: coming to an economy near you. Read it and weep for the America you thought you knew.

CLIMATEGATE IS DEAD; long live Climategate. The IEEE’s energy correspondent sees the handwriting on the wall: the British House of Commons's attempted whitewash of the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit failed.