SLOW MOTION LANDING: Owls are authorized to use 'in-flight thrust reverse' and 'full speed brake extension'. If only humans could build adaptive wings like that.

THOUGHTLESS COMMENT about thoughtless politician spouting progressive nonsense. Is it even possible to inject a coherent thought into the minds of progressives?

SHOCKING (NOT): New Study Shows Obamacare’s Impact on Ohio Coverage and Premiums. Our (Democratic) political class knew it in advance and chose to press on anyway.

A NEW DEFINITION OF 'SHOVEL READY'.

Solyndra, a manufacturer of solar panels, is bankrupt, which is inconvenient for the Obama administration, which extended half a billion dollars' worth of loan guarantees to the firm as part of the president's stimulus effort. The inconvenience extends to the 1,100 Solyndra employees who have just lost their jobs and to the U.S. taxpayers who may be on the hook for the bankrupt firm's loans. The project was indeed "shovel ready," as the president likes to put it; unhappily, in this case, the shovel belongs to the gravedigger. Perhaps the gravestone could read: "Another project funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act."

From the dead tree edition of National Review (October 3, 2011)

WEALTHY MAN asks Obama to ‘Please Raise My Taxes’. Hey, buddy, raise your own damn taxes.

WHY YOU SHOULD never believe the government when it declares it's "running out of money": FEMA finds $114 million 'in the bank'.

BOEING'S 'PHANTOM EYE' UAV being readied for hydrogen-fueled flight tests.

YELLOW ARCTIC SNOW could have clues for life on other planets.

A patch of yellow snow in one of the most remote corners of Arctic Canada has supplied fresh insights into an exceedingly rare natural phenomenon that could help scientists detect life — if it exists, as some experts suspect — on one of Jupiter's moons.

Then again, it could simply be the polar bears' outhouse.

THOMAS SOWELL: in defense of Rick Perry.

AUTONOMOUS FLYING ROBOTS taught to flock like birds. I'd like to see longer video of the actual flights showing the actual maneuvering.

CRONY CAPITALISM IN COLORADO: 'Green' no longer refers to the environment.

GOOD NEWS? The Obama administration is creating more jobs -- government jobs.

ROGER SIMON: Disband the Congressional Black Caucus. And while you're at it, disband the Congressional White Caucus, the Congressional Asian Caucus, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, the Congressional Gay Caucus, the Congressional Jewish Caucus, the ... what, there are no white, asian, hispanic, gay or Jewish caucuses?