WALL STREET JOURNAL: Airlines Face Acute Shortage Of Pilots. Don't worry, there will always be bullet trains.

REDISTRIBUTION: Foodstamps Surge By Most In One Year To New All Time Record.

SIMON JESTER returns.

CONN CARROLL: Amnesty would only make it worse.

Conservatives will never win over Latinos, or any other demographic (Romney lost Asians by an even larger, 47-point margin) by treating them as a distinct special interest group to be pandered to. That is how liberals keep their political coalition together -- and we know how that turns out. Just looked at Democratic-owned and ever-bankrupt state of California.

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MORE here. Like many -- if not most -- Americans, I have no problem with some form of amnesty for illegals of all ethnicities who have been living here, but only after our borders have been proven closed.

RE-ELECTED, Obama takes aim at religious liberty. Except for secularism, which will remain 'protected'.

HOORAY FOR THE ARAB SPRING: Israel Fires Warning Shot Into Syria.

JESSE JACKSON, JR. plea deal to include resigning from Congress. Personally, I'd be inclined to require him to stay in Congress, under the theory that there would be less damage to America than would be the case if Chicago were to be allowed to vote for appoint another machine corruptocrat to Congress.

DAVID AND BATHSHEBA: there's something surreal -- almost Alice-in-Wonderlandish -- about the whole Benghazi affair. More and more I'm being convinced that the Obama administration is the most corrupt ever and that Gen. Petraeus was intentionally set up to be the 'fall guy' for Benghazi.

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[ADDED] Another Mystery Victim in the Benghazi Triangle.

YES, let's raise taxes on the rich. Let's raise them so high that George Soros and his kind go bankrupt.

TO OUR VETERANS -- Thank you for your service.

HOPE and Change Greece, Illinois, and California.

PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE: Don't wait for the education bubble to burst; detonate it first.

JEFF JACOBY: What it takes is clarity and conviction.

ON THE LEFT it's not 'special interest' money; it's 'public interest' money.

FROM MY EMAIL: Analyzing Sandra Fluke's birth control expenses.

Many of you have likely seen the heart rending testimony of Ms. Sandra Fluke, a law student at Georgetown University, before a Congressional Committee. She was lamenting that no one would subsidize her birth control expenses, which she claimed would amount to $3000 during her three years in law school. After watching Ms. Fluke describe her desperate situation I set to thinking of ways to help her out of her crisis.

First, of course I had to pass through the grieving period I experienced after hearing of her inhumane treatment at the hands of the Georgetown administration and our Government – what cruelty lurks in the heart of men that they would leave this poor woman to fend for herself when all she wanted to do was get laid seven times a day (see my analysis below).

Once I recovered from my grief, I set to thinking about ways to help this poor girl. Being a Physicist, I sat down with my calculator and worked through some numbers. Ms. Fluke’s expense account for birth control (aka sexual entertainment) was claimed to be $3000 for three years at law school. Let’s presume that as an educated woman she wants to be doubly safe and uses both birth control pills to prevent pregnancy and condoms to prevent STD (sexually transmitted disease).

Using the Wal-Mart cost for birth control pills of $9 per month, her birth control pills will cost her $324 for her entire law school career. This leaves only $2676 for her condoms.

I went to Amazon.com, and found quality condoms available for 33 cents each in packages of 60 condoms each. This cost includes tax and shipping. Since she has $2676 for her 33 cent condoms, she will be buying 8109 condoms during her law school “career”.

To use her 8109 condoms (remember, $3000 was Ms. Flukes’ own number) she would have to have sex 7 times a day. This number presumes that she also has sex ten times a day on Sundays when she has more free time.

So, having worked through these numbers, I have some suggestions for Ms. Fluke to help her work through her crisis:

1. Find dates who are gentlemanly enough to either provide their own condoms, or at least split the cost with her. Selection criteria is the key to this one.

2. Spend more time studying. Even seven “quickies” a day will seriously cut into quality study time. This would not only save money but would improve her education as well.

3. Seek funding from the EPA from one of their Wetlands Protection programs – surely Ms. Flukes’ nether regions would qualify as wetlands given sex seven times a day.

Just trying to help out a starving student. (By the way, the average starting salary of new Georgetown Law School graduates is $160,000 a year.)

Footnote: If you missed the Democrat Convention, Sandra Fluke is one of the rising stars in the cadre of Democrat women who clearly believe that this issue is more important than the economy, jobs, government spending, $16 Trillion of national debt, America’s diminished role in the world, et cetera. Otherwise, why would they make her monologue a centerpiece of their convention?

VETERANS DAY: Mojave Cross rededicated to WWI veterans.

HOW TO GET TO THE MOON AGAIN: just climb the debt ceiling mountain.

IT'S YOUR MORTGAGE. Don't ask me to pay for it.

THE REGULATIONS ARE COMING, the regulations are coming.