REID DEFENDS TIME SPENT IN D.C., wishes the [Nevada Senate] race wasn't 'as close as it is'.

I’ll agree with Reid on one point - I wish Sharron Angle was further ahead, too ....

DEMOCRATS RETREAT TO COASTS; GOP rules the heartland.

THE POLICIES of the Chinese government make it possible for Americans to acquire a vast array of products at affordable prices. For that high crime and misdemeanor, the US House of Representatives voted last week to punish China.

Read it all.

GALLUP REPORTS unemployment at 10.1 percent. And that doesn’t include those - like me - who’ve given up looking.

FAST TRAINS.

Except for bicycles, mass transit is the greenest of transportation technologies. Experts may quibble about whether electric and hybrid-electric vehicles yield net energy and carbon savings, but there's no doubt that to the extent travellers can be lured from cars onto trains, substantial efficiencies result. As for air travel, greenhouse gas emissions are so great some green-minded indviduals try to avoid it altogether.

While the focus of the article is on China’s train technology, the dogmatic assertion above leaves me unimpressed.

HEH. Any partisanship evinced by Fox [News] is destructive, but those partisans that agree with us night after night [MSNBC] are just keeping government honest.

PELOSI NOW AS POPULAR AS BP: an insult to BP.

HOW DO YOU CREATE A JOB? You have to suffer Blumenthal’s response (about 1:30 long) for McMahon’s devastating response (less than 15 seconds).

THE SNOOPS ARE COMING: Obama wants a back door to our social media.

Surprised?

A STORY about cowardice.

The cartoon is here.

THE NANNY PARTY AT WORK: Let’s ban sugary drinks for people on food stamps.

FINALLY, more than a dime’s worth of difference between the parties.