NEXT GENERATION of spaceflight taking shape in Mojave. I lived near Mojave from 1995 through 2000, and at that time it looked pretty much like it was -- an abandoned airport used mostly for storage of aircraft uneconomical to fly. The idea that it could become a major spaceport was too preposterous to to even consider.

TAMING THE DRAGON: SpaceX Dragon Capsule Links With Space Station. All this despite a faulty first stage engine.

DEBATE SUMMARY: "Ride right through them, they’re demoralized as hell."

VOLUME CONTROL NEEDED: Day by Day on the Vice Presidential debate.

THE WALTER DURANTY PRIZE for Journalistic Mendacity is awarded to Vanity Fair magazine. Personally, I would have given it to the second runner-up.

BIDEN: Stop smirking already.

BIDEN is either acting like the village idiot or a bar heckler. I vote for both.

BRAVO, MR. ROMNEY. Romney calls Samantha Pawlucy, girl at center of T-shirt dust up. Liberals know no other way than to bully. Romney responds with dignity.

OH, YES: the tolerant Left.

BILL WHITTLE: Bewitched, (un)bothered, and bewildered.

CAPITALISM: Thanks to his investment in government subsidized green technology industries, Al Gore is now worth more than $100 million.

Crony capitalism, that is.

OBAMANOMICS: "... interest-group payoffs and compromised by concessions to powerful insiders, from big pharma (which stands to profit handsomely from the health care bill) to the biggest banks (which were mostly protected by the Dodd-Frank financial reform)."

FORWARD! ... to the fiscal cliff.

AND IT'S JUST WEEK TWO.

BLIND LEADING THE BLIND: the photo says it all.

THE JOY OF DISCOVERY: If you feed laxatives to seagulls, they'll shit on you.

DUMBOCRATS simply can't give up vandalism.

“I NEED A NEW PRESIDENT.”

ART LAFFER on Romney's tax plan.

THE REALITY-BASED COMMUNITY needs a common sense filter.