MIRACLES HAPPEN. We've had continuing light to moderate rain for almost 10 hours now, and there hasn't been a single weather alert/watch/warning. Neither have the local traffic reporters gone ballistic with warnings of slippery roads, poor driving conditions, and mass accidents on the freeways. The silence in palpable.

It's wonderful.

WHO TO BLAME if the debt ceiling isn’t raised. Surprise - it’s Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner!

WE'RE THE GOVERNMENT - AND YOU'RE NOT.


Linked from the PJ Tatler.

WISCONSIN GOV. SCOTT WALKER is looking more prophetic every day: the imploding liberal welfare states.

AND THE DEMOCRATIC ARGUMENT that Republicans are intent on destroying Medicare is ... well, see if you can figure it out. I can’t.

SCHLOCK AND AWW: the Libyan boomerang.

STICKY NOTE CAMPAIGN: a ‘gas roots’ movement. How’s that “hope and change” working out for you?

SPACE TOURISM: only one seat left. Reminder: it was only 10 years ago that the first “space tourist” traveled to the International Space Station.

THE SCALES OF JUSTICE HAVE ONLY ONE SIDE: Atlanta law firm of King & Spalding decides that marriage and democracy are indefensible, but terrorists and murderers are fine. The Left explains why.

Here’s a list of Cocoa Cola products you can boycott.

FROM THE LEFT: Obama is looking a lot like Jimmy Carter. Unfortunately, Carter II is a best-case scenario.

WHY LINDA MCMAHON should have won in Connecticut.

WHERE’S THE OUTRAGE? Republicans just voted to end Medicare. Well, if they did, then you’d think I’d notice, being a Medicare “recipient” after all.

This column is notable only for its irrationality: the consistent theme throughout is that violent, nihilistic behavior is fine if it advances my cause, but the same behavior in the advancement of your cause is not just wrong, but vile and villianous.

To be progressive is to be able to hold (at least) two mutually contradictory thoughts in mind simultaneously.

GOT $200K? Tickets are on sale for Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShip Two.

IT’S ABOUT TIME: New bill directs NASA back to the moon by 2022, with permanent habitation in mind.

I’d prefer NASA staying on the sidelines, cheering on American venture capital and making space exploration and colonization a national goal is an important first step.

Unfortunately, President Obama is dismissive of a moon mission, saying “We’ve been there before.”

The first American satellite to orbit earth, Explorer I, was launched Jan 31, 1958, three years before our current president was born. Can you imagine how poor our life would be if President Eisenhower had ditched the emerging space program then, saying essentially “Well, we’ve been there.”

OSAMA BIN LADEN DEAD? Presidential news conference expected momentarily ....

UPDATE: DEAD! Dead, dead, dead. And his carcass (not body, not corpse, carcass) is now feeding the fish at the bottom of the sea. Hot Air has a good summary of the breaking news as it happened last night. More thoughts later.

DECIMAL SLIP: Thousands expected, hundreds appear. Oh, well, what's a few factors of ten in the grand scheme of things?

MY CATS would not lower themselves to the status of "companion animal." They're pets, and proud of it.


As one of the commenters noted, once we put crazy people in "lunatic asylums." Now we put them in "academic institutions."

WHEN EVEN the miserable partisan hacks can’t come up with anything better than a naked race-card play, you know that . . . well, that Jimmy Carter is the best-case scenario.

SCRATCH A LIBERAL; you'll find a bigot underneath.

Back when I taught college in the late 70's, it was a running joke around campus that the reason colleges were referred to as "ivory towers" was that society didn't dare let the professors out for fear that they might harm themselves. Today it's no longer a joke.

Heh. More here - bigot accused of bigotry.

IN SAN FRANCISCO, NO LESS: The White House is lying about banning our reporter.