COUNTDOWN TO DOOMSDAY: "Mankind has long been fascinated with doomsday and hundreds of thousands of predictions have been made about the end of our world. While most of these are associated with the second coming of Christ, the focus is now on the Maya civilization of Southern Mexico and the end of their calendar on December 21, 2012 -- the coming Winter Solstice.... The scenarios are truly frightening: The Earth will be destroyed by colliding with an asteroid or being pulled into the black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Others claim a galactic planetary alignment that will tear the Earth apart or the Earth's magnetic poles will shift and our planet will turn upside down."

The Mayans were off by just a bit. Doomsday was early; November 6th instead of December 21st.

THANKSGIVING: "America was founded by socialists who had the humility to learn from their initial mistakes and embrace freedom.”

PAUL GREENBERG on a on a date to remember this Thanksgiving.

“THE PRESIDENT keeps reminding us he just won an election. [So it’s] time for the president to start talking about what he has to offer and put something on the table.”

MICHELLE MALKIN: Giving Thanks for America's Givers. Now if only the government would get out of the way....

TAX POLICY: the Instapundit gambit.

WE'LL SURVIVE; just make the spending cuts. And probably be better off for it.

CONCEALED CARRY WAR; woman wins.

FORWARD! -- to Revenge! Mandate? I don't need no stinkin' mandate.

GREENFAIL: Incandescent light bulbs now thought to be superior to CFLs.

THOMAS SOWELL: Killing the goose. Still wonder why government unions are growing even as private unions are declining?

THE HORRORS OF FEMA DISASTER 'RELIEF'; the glory of private efforts. And now I just caught a story on television tonight that the government is considering delaying reconstruction for 6 months or more (so that the lucky residents can continue to enjoy the benefits of FEMA camps).

DENNIS PRAGER: How the New York Times Covers Evil. It covers evil?

ISN'T IT OBVIOUS who the racists are?

You know, everywhere I go in town -- Old Manassas, grocery store, department store, WalMart, Home Depot, restaurants -- I see 20, 30, even 40 percent biracial/multiracial families. Where's the racism?

Answer: MSNBC....

GOODBYE, MAINSTREAM MEDIA:

EXPLORATION ALTERNATIVES: From Propellant Depots to Commercial Lunar Base. It looks good on the surface, but is doomed to fail without two very important requirements. The first is a 'grand goal' -- permanent colonization (and note I don't specify colonization of what). The second is buy-in from commercial space.

Without both, the 'exploration highway' will fail.

NEWSPAPERS WILL NEVER DIE: You Can't Wrap a Fish with an IPhone.

EARLY ADOPTERS, you may have just gotten shafted again.

Utter bull(you finish the word)! That happens every single time a new technology is adopted. If they were smart (silly me!), the environmentalists and greenies would be thrilled, since it indicates that the all-electric car may be close to becoming as economically viable as it would have been 10 years ago in the absence of government regulation and subsidization.

NASA’S MINI X-PLANE marks another flight milestone.

It's a pity that Boeing is unlikely to build a larger piloted model in the near future.

NOT THAT THEY WOULD ENTER, but it's the thought that counts.