VAN JONES: “We Will Not Live on an Economic Plantation Run by the Koch Brothers.”

No, he wants the rest of to live on an economic plantation run by him.

SURPRISE, SURPRISE: political correctness prevented FBI, DoD from stopping Maj. Hasan. Wasn’t that obvious at the outset?

WASHINGTON POST COLUMNIST Ruth Marcus whines “Hey, it’s my Constitution, too.” To which the American people have responded, “Yes, and you can have it back when we determine you can use it responsibly.”

SCHOOL CHOICE: a cost-saving remedy for destitute states. Well, bankruptcy isn’t my preferred option, and this may prove to be a useful tool to break the back of the state education monopoly.

BIGELOW AEROSPACE may build commercial space station plant in Florida.

Another “inflatable” spacecraft concept is here.

FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION: “hangar homes” won't fly at public airports.

John Travolta won’t be happy. Well, except that he probably owns his own airport.

REP. JANE HARMAN (D-CA) “makes the case that despite Tucson shooter Jared Loughner being ‘a lone gunman who had lost all sense of reality’ and ‘had no connection to the recent spate of Al Qaeda materials available on the Internet’ we should enact gun control because of the Al Qaeda materials on the internet that Loughner could have accessed. Or something.”

OBAMA ISSUES global warming rules in January, gives GE an exemption in February.

Nothing to see here, folks. Just move along now.

SEGREGATION: it’s not just for conservatives any more.

It never was; but that has always been the liberal spin.

A GOLDEN PARACHUTE for the school superintendent, a lead balloon for the taxpayers.

SEN. BOB CORKER (R-TN): Put a ‘straightjacket’ on federal spending.

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: Some Michigan schools permit ‘religious’ knives, yet cupcakes are banned.

U.S. ATTAINS third-world status. In my home state, no less.

OBAMACARE: the (733 to date) waivers are a good thing.

SPACE STASIS: What the strange persistence of rockets can teach us about innovation.

What it really teaches is that there is no shortage of liberal boobs at Slate.

I MAY BE A DUPE, but it’s Glenn Beck’s fault.

THE BUDGET CAN BE CUT. Only politics stand in the way.

TO BE A PAINE PATRIOT: Is it hard to remember that patriotism used to mean putting a collective good before private profit? Barbara Clark Smith is rewriting history. True patriots, including myself, will sacrifice immediate gratification for future gains. No one, especially the collectivist progressive chic, ever puts the collective good before themselves.

SAINTED MODERATES reap lobbying bucks. “Perhaps it's time to reconsider the media's beatification of "moderates," and realize that those who walk down the middle of the road, instead of being daring trailblazers, are often following the easiest path to riches.”

SARAH PALIN schools the Washington Post on history.

I would only add that the politicians of that time did not believe the CIA data.