RIGHT ON SCHEDULE: Time to go after those awful “price gougers”.

The public would be better served if those same government employees were given gloves and shovels, sent to the disaster areas and told not to come back until services were restored and the mess cleaned up.

Unfortunately, most of them probably don't know which end of the shovel is which.

RIGHT ON SCHEDULE: More public lands to be closed to shale oil drilling.

GETTING OUT of Dodge city before the sheriff arrives: Hillary Clinton Turns Down Request to Testify on Benghazi Next Week.

POST MORTEM: This time, it's personal.

WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, the tough get going -- to Bangkok, Rangoon, and Phnom Penh.

THE TIMING IS JUST TOO PERFECT: "… And I suspect that these tough Chicago guys knew about this affair for a while, held it in their back pocket until they needed to play the card.”

JUST WHEN YOU THINK YOU'VE HEARD IT ALL: San Francisco to foot bill for sex changes.

Anyone want to bet that it won't show up in the minimum requirement for an ObamaCare insurance policy we'll be forced to buy?

PETA TO KIDS: If you wouldn't eat your dog, why eat a turkey? Um, because turkeys are food and dogs are not?

PUPPY TIME:

MARK STEYN on the 2012 election: "The longer any course correction is postponed the more convulsive it will be. Alas, on Tuesday, the electorate opted to defer it for another four years. I doubt they’ll get that long."

JEEZ: Lockheed Martin Exec Who Followed Admin Lead on WARN Act Resigns Due to Affair. And the Democrats keep trying to tell us that women aren't powerful?

A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT about gun control.

And

TODAY IS the 237th birthday of the United States Marine Corps. The Commandant and Sgt. Maj. of the Marine Corps, Gen. James F. Amos and Sgt. Maj. Micheal P. Barrett, present the 2012 Marine Corps Birthday Message.

THE LESSONS [still not] learned from hurricane Sandy.

The short-term solution is called 'individual initiative'; the long-term solution is called 'systems engineering'.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Can we impeach Obama before his inauguration?

"THE NEW FACE OF THE [DEMOCRAT] PARTY is Elizabeth Warren et al. — brutal, ruthless hacks from Harvard.”

QUIT HOLDING YOUR BREATH: Human Carbon Emissions Seen by Researchers Holding Back Ice Age.

WHY DOES THE GOVERNMENT tax Social Security benefits? To get the money back, of course.

HEH. Residents displaced by Sandy are staring at life in Staten Island 'jail'. That, of course, is assuming that the state can get the deactivated facility running before the potential 'residents' go back to repaired homes.

THE GREEN WARS are about the begin in earnest again. A couple of comments:

The Natural Resources Defense Council is a nonprofit and nonpartisan environmental advocacy group. Really?

"We can no longer afford to stand idly by while perfectly edible food is being wasted." Oh? Then explain why restaurants can no longer give unused meals to the hungry. And why private individuals cannot feed the hungry in public areas?

"Anything released into the environment is pollution." How compassionate is it to douse a freezing man’s fire on account of the smoke?

"Left free, man would ruin the Earth." Just drive around town. Cruise through an affluent neighborhood, then tour a poor one. Which is clean? Which is dirty?

Enough said.