DESPERATION: Obama Administration Seals Records of Murdered Border Patrol Agent Implicated in Fast and Furious.

EGO TRIP: Bloomberg eyeing the White House? If he were dumb enough to try it, my gut feeling is that he'd do more damage to the Democrats.

IN A SOCIETY where cheating and stealing is not punished, you're a chump if you behave in a virtuous manner.

AIMING FOR THE STARS: "NASA's shuttle program may be defunct, but the next generation of spaceflight is on the horizon – and there will be plenty of jobs to go around."

More here.

"PUT DOWN THE SALT SHAKER and back away from the table. And don't even think about going for the chips."

MIKE BAKER: Saying Thanks to a Real American Hero.

"GIVEN THEQUALITY OF OUR POLITICAL CLASS, and given how many bureaucrats and government employees see their job as a birthright rather than a solemn responsibility, it should come as no surprise that taxpayers are getting it from both ends, and are seen as prey for both criminals and bureaucrats."

I'M RICK PERRY, and I, uh, ... what was that again?

STILL NOT GROWN UP.

JETMAN JOINS TWO FIGHTER JETS in flight over the Swiss Alps.


The video is here.

JONAH GOLDBERG: Courting Joe the Puppeteer.

And, yes, the message is both condescending and aloof.

FROM MY EMAIL: Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli will run for governor in 2013.

UPDATE: from another email, Cuccinelli is hosting a paintball fundraiser in Leesburg on December 11th. How can you not vote for a candidate who plays paintball?

HOT AIR: Quotes of the day.

OXYMORON: Planned Parenthood now hiring someone who wasn’t aborted. Best description of the pro-choice movement ever.

GINGRICH: I am going to be the Republican nominee. Bold statement, but I like it. To overuse the football analogy, I want my quarterback focused on the end zone, not the first down.

More: the Townhall polls seem to agree.

ADAM CAROLLA (whoever he is) on the Occupy Movement: "F**king Self-Entitled Monsters." As the title indicates, not approved for children's ears.

PAUL GREENBERG: Occupied or vacant? Both.

PARTY POOPER: Sadly, there's always someone out to spoil the fun. The original post is here.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: A Tale of Two Surges.

LOOK FOR PROBLEMS WITH EGYPT: "Early election results show that the party formed by the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s mainstream Islamist group, will take about 40% of the put in Egypt’s first Parliament since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak. The ultraconservative Islamists Salafis also did well, guaranteeing a decisive Islamist majority."