Curt over at Flopping Aces has been handed a very difficult assignment on behalf of our troops, and could really use some assistance, if any of you have the time. Thanks for your efforts. Completely unrelated: So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night . . . Also here, here, here, . . . UPDATE: I agree with Allahpundit’s take on Wingnut Welfare. There. I said it. Brian at Sister Toldjah,

Only this time from Olbermann to co-Worst Persons in World, Dan Cooper, Twitter and Fox News: I’ve previously written at length about Keith Olbermann smearing Twitter and Dan Cooper, suggesting that they, along with Fox News, conspired to defraud America by setting up a fake Twitter account in Keith’s name. As we all know by now, Keith couldn’t have done a worse job with that segment. Not only was the

Camille Paglia, the American Oriana Fallaci (though a good argument can be made that Oriana Fallaci became the American Oriana Fallaci in the years before her death), has some terrific stuff in her most recent column, including an excoriating criticism of the left’s statist religion. You can read lots of reactions to that stuff elsewhere, I’m sure, but more interesting to me was a letter that she published from one

As you all know, my contract with PJM expired April 1, leaving me without any income from the site. Rather than go to a pay or subscription model, I’m content at this time to hold quarterly fundraisers with the hope that I can match the previous income level (which was itself a step down from my initial agreement with PJM). — And this is the very first of those quarterly

The more Obama insists that he’s not naive, the clearer it becomes that he is dreadfully naive–with a complementary political cynicism added to the mix. Obama is horrendously naive on the issue of nuclear proliferation, as today’s news regarding a ChiCom-Iranian plot uncovered reveals*:

You know, good for him, but honestly some activities really ought to be pursued behind a paywall.

I don’t know much about how practical fascism works, but this seems almost as if it could serve as an object lesson, were one willing to, you know, squint…

Byron York, Washington Examiner: Now Obama is president and faces two problems for which missile defense is a possible solution. The first is North Korea’s launch of a ballistic missile which might someday carry a nuclear warhead. The second is Iran’s continuing effort to build a nuclear weapon. With that in the news, Obama pledged in the Czech Republic that, “as long as the threat from Iran persists,” the U.S.

Given Barack Obama’s improving polling numbers — the result, no doubt, of a backlash against the media for its intense, unfair scrutiny of the President’s overseas trip (particularly, their widespread airing both of Obama’s criticisms of his own countrymen and his deferential bow, in our name, before Saudi royalty) — perhaps Thomas Sowell should do conservatism a favor and just, like, shut his yap for a change: What does “economic