LOOKS LIKE CHANGING PARTIES ISN’T WORKING: Sestak leads Specter by 9 points.

More here.

BLOWBACK: “Look, just because we called you racist bigots … doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t visit.”

Arizona responds.

"THE ECONOMIC ATTITUDE of the nation has shifted. We are no longer a nation of self-sufficient, rugged individualists; we are now a nation of addicts, hooked on a politician's promises of economic safety.... This is why America is lost. Too many Americans are hooked for us to return to a sound economic footing via the normal political processes."

Link via Instapundit.

AUSTIN, TEXAS: moonbat capitol of the American southwest. Read the comments, too.

A FRESH LOOK AT wireless power transmission. Small appliances, close by? Probably. Planes, trains, and automobiles? Not likely.

TO SERVE MANN: Virginia’s AG Puts Climate-Researcher on the Menu.

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II has opened an investigation into whether Professor Michael Mann (whose “hide the decline” email was an the center of the Climategate scandal) violated the Commonwealth’s Fraud Against Taxpayers Act when he served as a faculty member at the University of Virginia. Dr. Peter Wood, President of the National Association of Scholars, comments:

At NAS , we are neither supporters nor skeptics of climate science per se. We support good science on important topics. Good science, however, sometimes requires more than closely-cabined peer review. It also requires public accountability. And this is especially true in a campus atmosphere dominated by unscientific certainty on the matters in question. The reigning unscientific certainty in higher education is visible in lots of ways, including the 685 college and university presidents in the United States that have signed on to a preemptive declaration—the College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment—that treats global warming caused by human emissions as a settled fact which requires by way of response “integrating sustainability into the curriculum.”

Read it all.

Linked from PowerLine.

NOW WE KNOW WHY the stimulus money is being spent so slowly: it takes 5 months to hire one government worker. John Derbyshire comments on this part of the news article:

For the first time in history, applicants will be able to submit résumés and cover letters and will not be required to complete knowledge skills and ability essays.

“Down with knowledge, skills, and ability! No need for that stuff in the federal workforce!”

I must have worked for the government before history began (1968 actually) since all I filled out was the 4-page SF-171. But in 1968 I was a new college graduate – it was obvious I had no knowledge, skills, or ability - and then, as now, there was “no need for that stuff in the federal workforce.”

I lasted 18 months.

DESPITE REPEATEDLY VOICING CONCERNS about Arizona's new immigration enforcement law in recent weeks and threatening to challenge it, Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday he has not yet read the law.

These guys must take prescription-strength stupidity pills daily to maintain this level of incompetence.

WHO’S SURPRISED? Obama administration liberals, apparently.

IF WE’RE EVER to run our electric grid on the on-again, off-again power that wind and sun provide, we’re going to need better batteries. Here’s an option.

In place of the solid electrodes of a conventional battery, flow batteries use two liquid electrolytes that react when pumped through a cell stack. The battery is broken down into a cell stack and two large electrolyte tanks; as the electrolyte flows past a porous membrane in each cell, ions and electrons flow back and forth, charging or discharging the battery.

Voltage and current capacity are defined by the chemical reaction used and the number, size, and connection of the individual battery cells. Energy storage capacity is defined by the size of the electrolyte storage tanks. Recharging simply means reversing the current flow - or putting in fresh electrolyte.

More here.

SENATOR BOB BENNETT’S LOSS at the Utah Republican convention a ‘Damn Outrage,’ ‘Non-Violent Coup,’ and part of larger intolerant GOP narrative.

Wow. The ‘nonviolent coup’ remark is particularly ironic ... I always thought that the ability to vote to remove from the leadership of your organization someone who isn’t performing to your expectations was called democracy.

MORE NATURAL GAS, less CO2. So why are the Democrats so intent on passing Cap ‘n Tax Trade?

MICHELLE OBAMA’S OBESITY REPORT: Tax pop and candy, subsidize fruits and veggies.

Uh, right. Subsidize those who can afford to buy the “good stuff;” tax those who can’t. Makes perfect (liberal) sense.

ANOTHER PLEDGE THROWN UNDER THE BUS. Orszag : The president never “pledged” no new taxes; he “preferred.” That bus must have monster tires.

Follow both links.

GET WITH THE PROGRAM, AMERICA: ”You say that the President is out of touch with the people. You are mistaken. Get with the program! The truth is that the people are out of touch with the President; the correct solution to this problem is for the President to put the people out of office.”

The link is here [9th comment].

ANOTHER DAY, another bizarre UC Berkeley tantrum.

Where are the parents of these twits?

MAY IS BICYCLE SAFETY MONTH. So says the sign along the highway I drive to work. Does that mean that it’s open season on bicyclists for the other 11 months?

Seriously, this is just another example of galloping nanny-statism. Surely there’s a better way to waste my taxpayer money.

MALICIOUS ATTACK on Michele Bachmann website.

Bachmann for Congress discovered an attack on its website, which resulted in users in Internet Explorer and Google Chrome to receive virus alerts and some to download viruses. After a search with web developers, the offending code was found and removed from the website.

"This malicious attack caused unsuspecting supporters and Internet users to inadvertently download viruses to their computers, and it is disturbing there are people who spend their time and energy on causing havoc to innocent volunteers," Campaign Manager Gina Countryman said. "We take the security of our website and our volunteers very seriously. We took swift action with our developers to find and remove damaging codes and protect our supporters. We have no reason to believe any data was removed, and no contributor lists are housed on our website."

Any supporters who were affected by the attack should run a basic anti-virus program on their computer, and seek help if they need to have any viruses removed. While the offending code has been removed, some security software programs are being notified of the correction and may still have the website flagged.

Democrats must be feeling very, very threatened. Rightly so.

THE U.S. NAVY fights back.

Link from Don Surber.

BP OIL SPILL: Taxpayers could pay billions in damages.

What? But, but, ... Obama promised that BP would pay all the damages ....

Link from Instapundit.