Good morning.

1. A beastly comic.
2. Talk of stiffening the Constitution, fear of runaway dismissed.
3. Expectations and behavior.
4. More Volt talk … I don’t believe the 127 mpg figure is anywhere near accurate.
5. A column recommended.
6. A contest.
7. Fraud and foreclosure.
8. A thorough foreclosure overview.
9. And a Fan/Fred connection.
10. Ignorance of the law is no excuse, but for some being above the law really helps one out.
11. Angle/Reid.
12. US National debt … which makes a default question sort of curious if the trend continues.

Global Warming – a scam? (HT: Ron’s Bloviating) From Harold Lewis, Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara,

It [Global Warming] is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.

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Yahoo! Yoga Mohler, Yoga, and Yahoo! together.

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So… where’s Checkpoint Charlie? Rep. Loretta “The Vietnamese are trying to take away our seat!” Sanchez thinks a U.S. / Mexico border fence is the same as the Berlin Wall.

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Hope (as in, “we can certainly hope this will happen”)

Good morning. This will be brief, I have to hit the road shortly.

1. Poverty and taxes.
2. A gay man’s response to the Admin and DADT.
3. Perceptions of economics.
4. Nikita Khrushchev.
5. A white butterfly.
6. Nobel and consequences.
7. Fun with logic.
8. Mrs Thomas and liberty.
9. Criticism of the Admin from the left … more here.
10. Yesterday’s reports on the Volt, countered.
11. So … supply is down, prices however, will be mandated magically by Obamacare to go down. Makes sense? Didn’t think so.
12. Vietnam and the delusions of the left.
13. Cancer and caution.

Good morning.

1. Politics, charge and counter.
2. A Democrat and talking points for the campaign.
3. Bad news for the government motors new car.
4. Guess their just following the lead of their majority owners, lie lie lie.
5. More stupid government tricks.
6. Concussions.
7. Unimpressed by the (not) sharing your pain.
8. Demographics moving.
9. A welcome homecoming.
10. Some Handel.
11. Stupid scholastic tricks.

Good morning.

1. On scandal.
2. A tragedy noted.
3. Football and gender.
4. The law and Mr Skinner.
5. Life imitates, uhm, sluggy freelance?
6. Mr Lewis and the APS.
7. China policy and that little island.
8. Libertarian and law.
9. Pressure and Obamacare.
10. Heh.
11. A book discussed.
12. A question for the consequentialists.
13. Expectations of the future.

Good morning, a perfect 10, eh?

1. Voter intimidation.
2. No warrant required.
3. Propriety.
4. On the food stamps -> food censorship. So … should you need a warrant to search subsidized housing?
5. Mr Mankiw.
6. Nazism and the left, argument from authority … and btw, the statement that “all political scientists” say its a far right movement is wrong. Chantal Delsol a prominent political philosopher disagrees, see Unlearned Lessons.
7. Tea with a psychic.
8. Climate and bees.
9. Nuclear power.
10. Branding.
11. Che chic and the left.
12. Of growth and government, here and here.

Leave it to Newsweek to call family films "shameful" for not fulfilling their PC feminist quotas.  With so much that is actually shameful coming out of Hollywood, you’d think they’d have more to deal with than "Finding Nemo".

Robert Robb of The Arizona Republic asks:

What will it take for economic policymakers to understand that the chief problem today is uncertainty? And that until they quit moving significant pieces of fiscal, monetary and regulatory policy around, the uncertainty won’t abate?

Quite a lot, apparently.  If jobs start getting created after big Republican wins in November, it’ll likely be because the "Party of No" will be there to curb this uncertainty.

If 91% of white voters had voted against Obama, some would have called it partially due to racism.  If 91% of black support him, can that be partially attributed to racism?  Jerome Hudson considers this.

The New York Times trumpets how well the civilian court system is for dealing with terrorism it when a terrorist pleads guilty and is sentenced.  Um, that’s not a real test of the system, guys.  A trial is the way to test it, and a terrorist trial going on in the civilian system was dealt a huge blow.  Do we want to chance, perhaps, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed getting off on a technicality?

Glasses that give perfect vision for any type of eyesight, even if you need bifocals?  Looks possible!

And finally, the longest stretch of 9.5+ percent unemployment since the 1930s has not been mitigated one bit by the two highest deficits since 1945.  Given liberal claims, we ought to have been sailing out of this by now.  Can we finally put that "government spending fixes the economy" meme to bed?

Valor Take the time to view the sequence of events which led to Staff Sgt Robert Miller being awarded the Medal of Honor.

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Bad News / Good News The Bad News – from Mark Dever (HT: Joe Carter),

One part of clarity sometimes missed by earnest evangelists, however, is the willingness to offend. Clarity with the claims of Christ certainly will include the translation of the Gospel into words that our hearer understands, but it doesn’t necessarily mean translating it into words that our hearer will like. Too often advocates of relevant evangelism verge over into being advocates of irrelevant non-evangelism. A gospel which in no way offends the sinner has not been understood.

The Good News – Most evangelicals are looking forward to having a whole lot of fun at church this coming Sunday (ostensibly so that non-Christians will like what they experience).

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Anti-Anti-Government Uh, no, Tea Party protests, and the like, are not “anti-government”. Advocating small government is completely contrary to advocating anarchy.

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Politics, as meant to be If the GOP makes gains in November, then it will be “hand to hand combat” in Congress next year. Bring it on! That’s what the founders counted on.

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Huh? Janet Napolitano “doesn’t know the answer” to the question of what to do with illegal alien Nicky Diaz? What’s not to know? Aren’t illegal aliens supposed to be deported to their country of origin? Methinks the first part of “immigration reform” would be to start enforcing the laws as they stand.

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Pessimism on U.S. Race Relations? Many people, prior to the election in 2008, categorically stated that they were voting for Obama because he was black [sic], and some people implied it was morally wrong to not vote for him, presumably because he would be the first black [sic] president. With that type of naive thinking (i.e., racist), are the results of this poll surprising?

Good morning.

1. Resilience in the recession.
2. On freedom.
3. Your nanny state working for you.
4. Tax commentary.
5. The 10:10 reply.
6. A day in the life of a professional cyclist.
7. Russia and China and the US.
8. Cringe-worthy.
9. Mr Obama is not a socialist/marxist or whacko.
10. Suavity.
11. Classy Democrats in California.
12. Raising the question, if it is Constitutional to require everyone to buy health insurance, is it also Constitutional to require everyone to purchase and own a gun?

Good morning

1. Not a right.
2. A question asked (HT: the Gentlemen).
3. A book noted.
4. The spiritual journey described.
5. A denial about Jewish control of media, alas, the thesis of which is contradicted in the last sentence.
6. If you haven’t heard of the 10:10 kerfuffle.
7. A prediction of climate trend and this winter.
8. It remains amateur hour at the White House. Eh?
9. Racism and the two parties.
10. Does anyone find it odd that Democrats seek “foreign cash and influence” now and didn’t so much when, say, Mr Clinton was getting bags of money from China?
11. The Oil kerfuffle, color me unsurprised, more here, here, and here.
12. Well, it’s mostly because he’s an ideologue and an ass.
13. The influence of that dark meme.

Good morning.

1. Considerations regarding anti-trust.
2. Uncertainty regarding the government and the recovery. I think this is a big factor in the slowness of the recovery. The administration has showed its willingness to swing a big sledge hammer at the economy … and the uncertainty which way that hammer will rock is one of the big reasons for caution in the business sector.
3. On teachers unions.
4. And they say Chicago politics is dirty.
5. Defining tradition and the church in a way that I’d think makes it more difficult for the Protestant to reject.
6. Ms O’Donnell and her opponent.
7. The center reviews the Constitutional challenges to Obamacare.
8. Looking for mystery fiction.
9. About those culture wars.
10. Puppies and love.
11. Bang!
12. Regarding last night’s post on economic inequality.
13. Has Mr Biden ever ever done one thing which was commendable?
14. A Catholic priest and a sex scandal.

Good morning.

1. The upside to the reaction to TARP, which I think is naive in that the negative reaction will not last long enough to serve as a moral hazard.
2. What COIN looks like up close.
3. Jews and Nebraska.
4. Defending Ms Rand.
5. Mr Lindzen and AGW.
6. Comparing two rallies, why is it that the ostensibly green democrats never manage to police their own trash?
7. Knowing your partner was “the one.”
8. Hell.
9. Cinema.
10. Porcupine.
11. Darwin, doubt and God.

Good morning. Sorry I’m late with this.

1. If you need evidence that the Administration is out of touch …
2. The Supreme Court and expansions of powers.
3. The “You’re only Christian because your parents were” argument.
4. Russian politics and more here.
5. So, if Mr Bush and Cheney had done something like this, how would the left have reacted? 
6. Education and incentives, here and here.
7. The AGW fringe.
8. History, Islam and given credit where credit is due (or not).
9. We really really need to cut the top three down.
10. Heh.

Venezuelans are getting tired of the food shortages, the electricity shortages, the soaring crime, the deep recession (i.e. everything that comes part and parcel with socialism) and have started taking back the country, starting with last weekend’s elections.  American voters are poised to do the same in November.

The "humanitarian crisis" in Gaza is apparently mostly about symbolism, false narratives and propaganda.  Flotillas are required to keep up the narratives.

The United Nations will appoint an Earth contact for aliens.  No, really.  "Mazlan Othman, the head of the UN’s little-known Office for Outer Space Affairs (Unoosa), is to describe her potential new role next week at a scientific conference at the Royal Society’s Kavli conference centre in Buckinghamshire."  Doesn’t it strike anyone as unintentionally humorous that "Unoosa" sounds like some alien specie you’d see on "Star Trek"?

When the Bilderbergers met last June (cue paranoid music), one of the topics they discussed was Global Cooling.  No, really.  (Al Gore was apparently not invited.)  But indeed, global cooling, were it happening, would be worse than global warming.  Crops, for starters, kinda’ like the heat.

Tea Partiers uncover rampant voter fraud in Houston.  Would it surprise you if I said that most of this was related to a former SEIU employee’s voter registration group?  Yeah, me neither.

"Scientists have invented an efficient way to produce apparently safe alternatives to human embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos…."  They start with ordinary skin cells.  As Glenn Reynolds would say, "Faster, please."

And finally, from Mike Lester, two views of the Constitution.  (Click for a larger image.)

Good morning.

1. If this wasn’t so, then Christians should abandon claims that they follow the cross.
2. About the Contador kerfuffle.
3. Henry David speaks out against progressives.
4. You won’t lose the coverage you have, oh, wait.
5. Book cooking.
6. The biggest (greatest, strongest, or whatever) in the world.
7. FLOTUS foiled.
8. Pakistan.
9. Alas, I was more drawn to the painting than the prayer.
10. Slavery.
11. Quantum revolution.
12. No Joe … Rocky and Bullwinkle is not unwatchable and “boxtops” as the new international currency standard is pure genius and not irrelevant in today’s economic times.