THE SENATE (and Harry Reid) wins, with almost 70% of the vote.

BREAKING NEWS: FOX can't spell. Here's the banner headline at 11:12 am on Tuesday, April 5: "Sources Tell Fox News That the White House Won't Except GOP's Short-Term Spending Bill".

Journalists kant spel gud....

IT'S ALREADY HERE: “concierge medicine.” My wife’s internist started something similar to this last year. Another bad idea - HMOs - have a similar origin.

INEXPERIENCED, and either too dumb to know it or too arrogant to accept help.

OBAMA WANTS to double conservation spending and buy more federal land. Otherwise his travel will be limited by a lack of nearby golf courses.

THE ‘KINETIC POLITICAL ACTION’ BEGINS: GOP announces its 2012 budget.

More at the Wall Street Journal.

SKUNK WORKS P-791 AIRSHIP revived as civil cargo-lifter. At the time I was working for the Skunk Works, P791 was a risk reduction effort for an even larger version tentatively named the AeroCraft.
The video is here.

THE QUICKEST WAY TO ‘GREEN’ GOVERNMENT: cut its size.

THE OBVIOUS ELUDES HIM AGAIN: Chris Matthews wonders why Republicans distrust the ‘Mainstream Media’.

OOPS! We didn't really mean that. Oh, yes you did. You just didn't mean to print it.

HOW TO MAKE A PAPER AIRPLANE. It doesn't seem like much until you see the scale at which the robot operates. Linked from Popular Science.

TELL IT LIKE IT IS: “We’re led by cowards and fools. But at least by opening their mouths, they removed all doubt.”

FORMER VIRGINIA GOV. TIM KAINE set to anounce Senate bid. Good. Now we can kick him out of politics entirely.

OBAMA: a failure of multiculturalism, or simply a reaffirmation of the Peter Principle?

GOP REP. PAUL RYAN'S BUDGET PLAN to slash deficits by over $4 trillion. It sounds good, but I want to see details. And as an over-65er, I'd like to be included in the Medicare reforms he's proposing.

RETURN TO THE MOON: we need the gas for exploration.

This should put the environmental movement in a tizzy.

BIASED MATH? Michael Barone comments:

An interesting result from pollster Scott Rasmussen: 57% of voters say they think making deeper cuts in federal spending is more important than avoiding a partial government shutdown, while 31% disagree. I think this wording tends to make a favorable case for the position of the House Republican leadership; it speaks of a “partial government shutdown” rather than a “government shutdown.” But in fact any shutdown would be partial in accordance with exiting law, and a margin of almost 2-1 is pretty striking.

I argued a month ago, in my March 1 Examiner column, that the conventional wisdom was wrong about the political effect of the government shutdowns during the 1995-96 budget struggles between Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton, and as one piece of evidence citing similar results on this question from an earlier Rasmussen poll. I continue to marvel at how Washington insiders regard the 1995-96 events as a disaster for House Republicans when they lost only 9 seats at the next election—especially since many of these people don’t seem to regard the House Democrats’ loss of 63 seats in November 2010 as a disaster. In my perhaps biased view, 63 is a larger number than 9.

Heh.

FOX POLL: Should Congress compromise or shut down? Right now, shut down is winning 10 to 1.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH - but not for thee. Linked from Instapundit.

TOO BAD: Burt Rutan retires from Scaled Composites. The aerospace industry will miss him.