INTRODUCING the new Presidential limousine. I wonder if Jack in the Box knows their car has been stolen....

IN THE OBAMA ERA, the future isn't what it used to be.

EXCELLENT: Eric Holder's Suit Against Texas Gives the Supreme Court a Chance to Gut Even More of the Voting Rights Act. The sooner we can be rid of it, the better.

YOU KNOW your diplomacy is a failure when

Our friends are avoiding us, our foes aren't afraid of us, and it's looking more and more like nobody in charge knows what they're doing. It's enough to make you look back fondly on the smooth, capable diplomacy of the Jimmy Carter era. Alas, we have over three years of this left. One can only hope that we, and the world, will not pay too high a price for the ineptitude at the top.

Read it all.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: "If the things that the Left wants to control — institutions and government policy — are not the most important factors in the world’s problems, then what role is there for the Left?"

DID HARRY REID'S NIMBY PLOY FAIL? "[T]he U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has revived ... the prospects of storing the nation’s spent nuclear waste at a site about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas despite what was thought to be a successful effort by Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid ... to kill it."