WAS PALIN LIBELED by Joe McGinniss?

Probably not. But he did succeed in trashing his own reputation as a journalist -- assuming he had one to begin with.

YOU BETCHA: Time to Abolish the Education Department? It should have been done years ago.

FIRST there was a Bridge to Nowhere; now there are Government Loans to Nowhere. At least the bridge to nowhere would have been a physical structure.

BOLDEN: NASA needs to take more risks. In today's risk-averse culture? Good luck with that.

POWER FOR THE WORLD: All we need is the wind, the water, and the sun.

• 3.8 million wind turbines, 5 megawatts each, supplying 50 percent of the projected total global power demand

• 49 000 solar thermal power plants, 300 MW each, supplying 20 percent

• 40 000 solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants supplying 14 percent

• 1.7 billion rooftop PV systems, 3 kilowatts each, supplying 6 percent

• 5350 geothermal power plants, 100 MW each, supplying 4 percent

• 900 hydroelectric power plants, 1300 MW each, of which 70 percent are already in place, supplying 4 percent

• 720 000 ocean-wave devices, 0.75 MW each, supplying 1 percent

• 490 000 tidal turbines, 1 MW each, supplying 1 percent.

Read the details. The plan is completely unrealistic.

TOP DOWN EDUCATION: Obama Rewrites 'No Child' Law.

NEIL ARMSTRONG: U.S. space program is 'embarrassing'.

THE MORNING AFTER: pundits pile on Gov. Rick Perry. Did they watch the same debate I did?

HOPE AND CHANGE: "[Obama] has given us change, but it is destructive change. He has given us hope, but it is hope that the nightmare he has engineered will soon be over."

JACKIE GINGRICH CUSHMAN: Fairness and equality are not the same.

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: By putting our deck chairs on the stern, we'll be the last to go down.