THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT ISN’T RACIST. But that’s not to say we aren’t trying to make it so.

DRILL, BABY, DRILL: Sarah Palin on green hypocrisy.

NATIONAL REVIEW endorses Republican candidate Linda McMahon for the Connecticut Senate seat held by retiring senator Chris Dodd - in a back-handed way.

First, the forehand:

The presumptive Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate from Connecticut is an inspiring business success who battled adversity and the competition to build an internationally recognized brand.

And then the backhand slap:

If decency means nothing, McMahon is the businesswoman par excellence. With her husband, Vince, she grew WWE [World Wrestling Entertainment] into a billion-dollar business. The company had to fend off fierce competition in the mid-1990s, when its future looked precarious. The McMahons prevailed on the back of those timeless entrepreneurial values of shrewdness, determination, and risk-taking.

So the “timeless entrepreneurial values of shrewdness, determination, and risk-taking” are okay only in pursuit of acceptable goals? What, pray tell, are acceptable “timeless entrepreneurial values of shrewdness, determination, and risk-taking?”

As for me, I like the idea of having a Senator who has actually run a business and created wealth, even if I personally never bought the product being sold (I’ve never owned an Apple product, either).

NOW WE KNOW what the White House means by a “jobs program.”

THERE GOES THE (PALINS’) NEIGHBORHOOD. Time for McGinniss to move on.

SOME FUN FACTS on the national debt: Under former President George W. Bush, the national debt grew at a rate of $1.6 billion per day. Under President Obama? A mere $4.8 billion per day. Obama has a very good chance of accomplishing in a single term what took Bush two full terms to accomplish.

SOCIAL JUSTICE: letting people starve.

OBAMA WALKS ON WATER; gets oil on feet.

OIL(Y) POLITICS. Responding to President Obama’s latest press conference defending to the Gulf oil crisis, Paul Greenberg asks: “So whom are you going to believe, the president's description of this administration as responsive and fast-acting, moving urgently to contain the catastrophe, or your own lying eyes?”

Read it all.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: At a time when Europe is discovering that its democratic socialism does not work, why in the world is the United States doing its best to copy it?

SLOW LEARNER: Obama cramming for midterms.


In November, we will issue our first report card on his performance.

IF HE WATCHED MORE OFTEN, he’d find out that Shepard Smith is always “a jerk and a fool.”

FINALLY: The U.S. is $13 trillion in debt.

It seems like only yesterday .....

MISSION TO NOWHERE. “Big, fat, pointless and expensive describes [the] plan to twiddle our fingers” say Paul Spudis and Robert Zubrin about Obama’s cancellation of NASA’s Constellation manned spaceflight program. “If implemented, this decision will guarantee a decade of non-achievement by NASA's human spaceflight program, ...”

But the entrepreneurial space industry -- collectively called "NewSpace" -- are finding fresh opportunities for work as NASA and the White House redirect U.S. space exploration efforts.

As I’ve pointed out before (here and here and here), I’m not sanguine about the future of manned spaceflight.

Low Earth orbit (LEO) is, I think, within the reach of commercial enterprise and NASA certainly has a role to play in technology development for exploration and eventual colonization (of the moon, Mars, and asteroids).

But as Spudis and Zubrin imply, what is lacking in the Obama administration is leadership and a coherent “Vision for Space Exploration.” With neither direction nor destination, manned space will likely falter.

OBAMA TELLS VOTERS: Remember Bush.


We do.