'TOP KILL' FAILURE NEWS that didn't make the news: Ms. Carol Browner, special assistant to the president for energy and climate change "said the administration told BP on Saturday to halt the top-kill procedure, after becoming 'very concerned' that the operation was putting too much pressure on the out-of-control well."

So if the decision to halt was made by the Obama administration, why is BP being demonized?

LARRY KING INTERROGATES OBAMA: "[T]hat’s the kind of real journalism people have come to expect from CNN — which is why more people watch Fox News. And MSNBC. And the Cartoon Channel. And HGTV…"

COMMENT OF THE DAY. "There’s a reason herbivores don’t develop intelligence: How smart do you need to be to sneak up on a leaf?"

The post is here.

IT'S NOT ABOUT TEACHERS.



It's about bullies: "You punch them; I punch you."

DID CASH FOR CLUNKERS WORK?

The data show that the government stimulus did increase sales — but that the following month, sales dropped in proportion to the spike. The three-week incentive program simply moved sales from the future into the present, and did nothing to increase organic demand even in a relatively short run.

The government did, however, manage to spend several billion dollars we don't have. Keep that in mind on November 2.

REP. ALAN GRAYSON (D-FL) wants Republicans sent to prison.

Could we get him sent up for impersonating a Congressman?

NEW ARRIVAL. You can get yours here.


November is coming.

PRESIDENT BIDEN? Why not? And from the comments:

[U]nlike the current president, Biden shows a humanity that is currently lacking in Obama. He came to the defense of Israel in the recent flotilla debacle, he made particularly noteworthy remarks on memorial day “in loco ‘presidentis’,” he refused to engage in the media trashing of Sarah Palin, and perhaps most telling, years ago in the senate, in the course of tied votes on an issue, he voluntarily sat out votes so that the elderly senator, Strom Thurmond (Biden’s opponent), could take a needed break. Whatever else Joe Biden is, and however much one might disagree with him politically, he is not a cold-blooded politician like our current President or the current chief-of-staff. I would never support him if he ran for president, but he could certainly do no worse than Obama.

I could live with Biden.

SAY WHAT? White supremacist groups are behind the Arizona immigration law.

Democrats must have an upper IQ limit to join the party.

HMM. WHEN GOVERNMENTS CHOOSE TO PAY FOR MEDICINE, they also choose what medicine to not pay for.

Hat tip to Instapundit for the link.

1979 AGAIN. Victor Davis Hanson remembers.

If anything, it seems to me to be worse today than it was during the Carter years. Jimmy Carter was merely incompetent; Barack Obama is aggressively so.

WILL WASHINGTON bail out the mainstream media?

Oddly enough, although I am vehemently against any subsidy to the media - mainstream or otherwise - I would be willing to grant a tax on broadcast spectrum just to be relieved of having to listen to the “public-interest programming” which broadcasters are required to provide.

Read it all, and be sure to follow the link to the New York Post article at the bottom.