NOT THAT THEY WOULD ENTER, but it's the thought that counts.

MORE PROOF (if any is needed) that the Democrats' relationship with reality in tenuous at best.

MORE RECENT EVENTS suggest Obama isn't going to get his way.

WOULD HE CONSIDER a guaranteed government prison?

NEVER LET A CRISIS GO TO WASTE: even when it's demonstrably irrelevant to the matter at hand.

TECH TALK: Network damage after hurricane Sandy.

One solution may be to encourage power companies to deploy standards that allow cell sites, homes and other independent structures to safely disconnect from the grid and still use local sources of energy, such as microgrids, solar panels, or wind turbines.

Bingo! The obvious solutions slaps liberals in the face. They might also consider hardening infrastructure, and siting power stations where power is consumed instead of in someone else's back yard.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Coincidentally, ....

PAUL GREENBERG: Learn Spanish. Look, I'm all for legal immigration, and I'll accept some form of regularization for those already here -- but not before I see demonstrable progress in controlling U.S. borders, including airports, seaports, and coastlines.

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT gives up on 'filtering' [i.e. regulating] the internet.

Too bad the rest of the world isn't that smart....

REPUBLICANS’ NEWEST PITCH ON TAXES — and why Obama can’t accept it. One thing to remember that in liberal-ese 'tax expenditure' is 'tax cut' in ordinary English.

I could accept a small tax increase, with conditions. The most important of which is that it be coupled with a complete overhaul of the tax code to remove all exemptions, deductions, and loopholes.

NASA: Is it time for a warp drive?

MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR ‘reassigns’ state highway [un]safety director.

GQ TO MARCO RUBIO: How old is Earth? I liked Instapundit's response: “I’m not sure, but I think Helen Thomas was there when it started.” But I have a better one. A variant on Gen. Honore's remark: "Are you still stuck on stupid?"

THE REALITY OF WEATHER FORECASTING:

It's late Fall, and the Indians on a remote reservation in Oklahoma asked their new chief if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild.

Since he was a chief in a modern society, he had never been taught the old secrets. When he looked at the sky, he couldn't tell what the winter was going to be like.

Nevertheless, to be on the safe side, he told his tribe that the winter was indeed going to be cold and that the members of the village should collect firewood to be prepared.

But, being a practical leader, after several days, he got an idea.

He went to the phone booth, called the National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma and asked,'Is the coming winter going to be cold?'

'It looks like this winter is going to be quite cold,' the meteorologist at the weather service responded.

So the chief went back to his people and told them to collect even more firewood in order to be prepared.

A week later, he called the National Weather Service again. 'Does it still look like it is going to be a very cold winter?'

'Yes,' the man at National Weather Service again replied, 'it's going to be a very cold winter.'

The chief again went back to his people and ordered them to collect every scrap of firewood they could find.

Two weeks later, the chief called the National Weather Service again. 'Are you absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?'

'Absolutely,' the man replied. 'It's looking more and more like it is going to be one of the coldest winters we've ever seen.'

'How can you be so sure?' the chief asked.

The weatherman replied, 'The Indians in Oklahoma are collecting lots of firewood.'

From my email.

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