PUTIN & OBAMA: what they’re thinking.

GIVING NEW MEANING to a kick in the ass.

THE DEMOCRATS’ “WAR ON WOMEN” CONTINUES: Hillary Clinton embraces gender as campaign strategy.

OBAMA: Do as I say, not as the law dictates, or you will be punished.

JEFF JACOBY Look who’s making an issue of Obama’s religion. Whenever an idiot journalist asks that question of a [Republican, of course] candidate, he or she should be reminded

“... that in this country, the theological views of political leaders carry no constitutional weight. ‘No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office’, [as] the framers specified in Article VI.”

The Washington Post has lowered the bar for journalistic ethics to ground level so that even a snake like Dana Milbank can slither over.

TWITTER ON NETANYAHU’S SPEECH:

Netanyahu is a perfect example of a foreigner coming here to do the jobs Americans won’t do. In this case behaving like a President.

Linked from Don Surber.

RANDOM THOUGHTS ON THE WEATHER: The prediction is for heavy rain starting late this afternoon through evening, turning to sleet and then wet, heavy snow in the early morning hours tomorrow. Predictions range from 2-8 inches by midday tomorrow (oh, and flash floods tonight).

The last-minute grocery run is complete. Firewood is in the basement (with more to come later if I can find room) and the emergency generator has been tested. Since it's going to be heavy wet snow, I'm expecting power outages (and perhaps more firewood, which I'm okay with provided it doesn't hit the house as it falls).

It's probably too late to run for Key West, though the thought is there....

ARE YOU BETTER OFF than you were 4 years ago? Our enemies certainly are.

PRESIDENT NO: Obama's contribution from this point forward will be to use vetoes and threats to obstruct whatever the recently elected Republican Congress passes.

Here's the first.

And Republicans will get the blame.

BECAUSE THEY’RE IDIOTS? Why presidential candidates love beating up on the press.

FORMER OBAMA MIDDLE EAST ADVISER Dennis Ross throws Obama under the bus. On the bright side, he’ll be with a bunch of his former friends.

ON THE ROAD TO PRINTING AIRPLANES: Rolls-Royce Plans to fly engine with largest 3D-printed part. It’ll be a few years yet....

Then again, maybe not.

THIEF VS. POTTED PLANT: Plant wins.

MASSIVE BLACK HOLE goes on self-imposed diet.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE traced to Clinton home in New York.

Laws? What laws? Laws are for little people.

WHITHER PATRIOTISM? Unpatriotic voters elect unpatriotic leaders.

The only missing element in Reynold’s reference to Heinlein’s Starship Troopers was his failure to reference the required noncredit course in History & Moral Philosophy, taught by a voter (i.e., one who had demonstrated a willingness to sacrifice for the common good).

In modern terms, I would make History and Moral Philosophy the central element of a Common Core curriculum.

THE NEXT BATTLEGROUND in the debate over global warming could be your dinner plate.

ANN ALTHOUSE takes the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank to the woodshed for a thorough spanking.

AN ODE to bureaucracy. Here’s Instapundit’s original post, with which I fully agreed at the time.