MIKE BAKER: Saying Thanks to a Real American Hero.

"GIVEN THEQUALITY OF OUR POLITICAL CLASS, and given how many bureaucrats and government employees see their job as a birthright rather than a solemn responsibility, it should come as no surprise that taxpayers are getting it from both ends, and are seen as prey for both criminals and bureaucrats."

I'M RICK PERRY, and I, uh, ... what was that again?

STILL NOT GROWN UP.

JETMAN JOINS TWO FIGHTER JETS in flight over the Swiss Alps.


The video is here.

JONAH GOLDBERG: Courting Joe the Puppeteer.

And, yes, the message is both condescending and aloof.

FROM MY EMAIL: Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli will run for governor in 2013.

UPDATE: from another email, Cuccinelli is hosting a paintball fundraiser in Leesburg on December 11th. How can you not vote for a candidate who plays paintball?

HOT AIR: Quotes of the day.

OXYMORON: Planned Parenthood now hiring someone who wasn’t aborted. Best description of the pro-choice movement ever.

GINGRICH: I am going to be the Republican nominee. Bold statement, but I like it. To overuse the football analogy, I want my quarterback focused on the end zone, not the first down.

More: the Townhall polls seem to agree.

ADAM CAROLLA (whoever he is) on the Occupy Movement: "F**king Self-Entitled Monsters." As the title indicates, not approved for children's ears.

PAUL GREENBERG: Occupied or vacant? Both.

PARTY POOPER: Sadly, there's always someone out to spoil the fun. The original post is here.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: A Tale of Two Surges.

LOOK FOR PROBLEMS WITH EGYPT: "Early election results show that the party formed by the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s mainstream Islamist group, will take about 40% of the put in Egypt’s first Parliament since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak. The ultraconservative Islamists Salafis also did well, guaranteeing a decisive Islamist majority."

LET GEORGE SOROS buy them tickets.

UNTOUCHED BY THE '60s, Romney reflects the corny '50s. Maybe that's a good thing.

A SHORT HISTORY of the Unix operating system. Interesting for geeks like me who grew up around Unix without ever knowing the back story.

GOV. JERRY BROWN to pitch 'tax the rich' plan to California voters:

Brown's plan, developed in a series of closed-door meetings between his senior staff, labor leaders and representatives of Democratic legislative leaders, would add an extra 1% tax on individual income above $250,000 a year. Individuals making between $300,000 and $500,000 would be taxed an additional 1.5% for that income. And those making more than $500,000 would see an additional 2% hike.

Watch American Airlines come back from bankruptcy by flying the high rollers out of state.

MORE ON THE 'CAIN TRAIN'.

"I would be the last person to presume to tell Herman Cain’s unfairly suffering wife and family what to say or do. I would only suggest that God is not in the habit of giving people more than they can handle, and that it would be really nice for the rest of us to see the Herminator take his candidacy to its rightful conclusion, in the process hopefully consigning the politics of personal destruction based on flat-out falsehoods to the dustbin of history."

And the Republican Party should work to that end.