GINGRICH: I am going to be the Republican nominee. Bold statement, but I like it. To overuse the football analogy, I want my quarterback focused on the end zone, not the first down.

More: the Townhall polls seem to agree.

ADAM CAROLLA (whoever he is) on the Occupy Movement: "F**king Self-Entitled Monsters." As the title indicates, not approved for children's ears.

PAUL GREENBERG: Occupied or vacant? Both.

PARTY POOPER: Sadly, there's always someone out to spoil the fun. The original post is here.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: A Tale of Two Surges.

LOOK FOR PROBLEMS WITH EGYPT: "Early election results show that the party formed by the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s mainstream Islamist group, will take about 40% of the put in Egypt’s first Parliament since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak. The ultraconservative Islamists Salafis also did well, guaranteeing a decisive Islamist majority."

LET GEORGE SOROS buy them tickets.

UNTOUCHED BY THE '60s, Romney reflects the corny '50s. Maybe that's a good thing.

A SHORT HISTORY of the Unix operating system. Interesting for geeks like me who grew up around Unix without ever knowing the back story.

GOV. JERRY BROWN to pitch 'tax the rich' plan to California voters:

Brown's plan, developed in a series of closed-door meetings between his senior staff, labor leaders and representatives of Democratic legislative leaders, would add an extra 1% tax on individual income above $250,000 a year. Individuals making between $300,000 and $500,000 would be taxed an additional 1.5% for that income. And those making more than $500,000 would see an additional 2% hike.

Watch American Airlines come back from bankruptcy by flying the high rollers out of state.

MORE ON THE 'CAIN TRAIN'.

"I would be the last person to presume to tell Herman Cain’s unfairly suffering wife and family what to say or do. I would only suggest that God is not in the habit of giving people more than they can handle, and that it would be really nice for the rest of us to see the Herminator take his candidacy to its rightful conclusion, in the process hopefully consigning the politics of personal destruction based on flat-out falsehoods to the dustbin of history."

And the Republican Party should work to that end.

MORE QUADCOPTERS: An Art Installation Sculpted by a Team of Swarming Autonomous Flying Robots.

Plus a bonus: a precision flying demonstration (scroll to bottom).

MORE BAD NEWS: NASA satellites find Texas aquifers at record lows. The record set by the great drought of the 1950's is about to be broken -- if it hasn't already.

ANNE COULTER: Once You Go Conservative Black, You Better Watch Your Back.

The Republicans -- the party, not the candidates -- should start punching back hard. Who induced these women to come out, and what was the quid pro quo?

This is going to be a dirty campaign, and the Republicans must be prepared to go on the offensive.

DRONE PILOTS: the future of aerial warfare.

COMMENT OF THE DAY:

Any time an AGW groupie talks about the "science is settled" or "consensus" it is good to remind them that science is not driven by consensus, it is driven by the 1 skeptic who can prove something, then have others following his procedures arrive at the same results. If science were ever truly "settled" we would still be living on a flat earth at the center of the universe, matter would be up of 4 elements (fire, water, earth, air), and the cutting edge of medicine would involve the use of leeches. After all, all 3 are examples of scientific consensi (consenses?) of their day. Politics, not science, is driven by consensus.

From this PowerLine post.

LET'S FACE IT, Obama just doesn't like his job. Of course not, he doesn't want to be a mere President, he wants to be King.

"IF GOVERNMENT destroys all the paths out of poverty, the welfare state will look like the only way to help the poor. Maybe ... that's the bureaucrats' goal."