KINDA MAKES YOU YEARN for the days when autos were mechanical, not electronic.

HUGE IRISH WIND PROJECT would send 3000 MW to the United Kingdom.

AMBASSADOR JOHN BOLTON on the Obama administration's reaction to Benghazi. For the first time, Bolton says publicly what I've long believed -- that the 'blame America first' mentality is so strong in Obama and his appointees that any evidence to the contrary simply cannot be believed. It must, therefore, be a lie or distortion of that existential truth that America must be at fault.

Watch the video. The Bolton interview begins about 4:20.

UPDATE (bumped): When it rains, it pours. Newt Gingrich makes the same point on Huckabee Saturday (10/13).

CONNECTING THE DOTS: lots and lots of dots.

MARK STEYN: Who's 'Politicizing' Benghazi?

JOE BIDEN DELIVERS ... but I didn't order a truckload of manure.

THE OBAMA TEAM prepares for the second Presidential debate....

From the Los Angeles Times.

HALFTIME IN AMERICA:



It's a parody of Eastwood's Super Bowl commercial, but a brilliant one.

PICKING A FIGHT with someone who drove a “warthog” for a living isn't a terribly bright thing to do.

LUCKILY I LIVE just beyond the event horizon.

WHY FAST-FOOD RESTAURANTS are becoming slow-food restaurants.

INSTAPUNDIT: The buck stops ... under the bus.

AMERICA (as we used to know it) won't survive another four years of Obama.

RANDOM THOUGHTS from the retirement lane. Driving home past the local cemetary this morning, it came to me that I haven't (yet) seen a grave marker with an Obama sign. I suspect the 'cemetary vote' will be weaker than usual this year.

WILL THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN throw Hillary under the bus? Only if they don't fear Bill Clinton stumping for Mitt Romney.

COMMERCIAL SPACE worries government dependents should be the headline of this hit piece in the Washington Examiner. They're worried about losing control.

IF OBAMACARE IS SO POPULAR, why are employers looking to skip out?

FAUX IDEOLOGY EFFECT: Liberals can pretend to be liberals all they wish to friends, family, employers, and co-workers, but more and more of them will privately vote conservative.

I think the number who vote for Romney/Ryan and then tell no one (at least in the short run) will be significant, so significant that this election may explode and be closer to a blowout than anyone, save a few, had expected.

I hope it's true, for if not, the U.S. is destined to be just another third-world nation.

THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN is brought to you by the letters U-N-S-E-R-I-O-U-S and the number 46(%). Sesame Street is concerned, but some muppets have joined Team Obama.

THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA can't manage it's way out of a paper bag; so why does it want to take over private pensions?