An Obama task force primer.

Hope! Change! From the AP: President Barack Obama has chosen Robert M. Groves to be the next census director, turning to a professor who has clashed with Republicans over the use of statistical sampling to lead the high-stakes head count. The White House will announce the selection of Groves on Thursday, a Commerce Department official told The Associated Press. The official demanded anonymity because the individual was not authorized to

Meh. So long as they have the good grace to use a green-friendly fuel, what’s the big deal? I mean, we have missiles, yes? Why shouldn’t other countries have them? To level the playing field? BECAUSE OF THE EGALITARIANISM?: The fueling signals that the country could be in the final stages of what North Korea has said will be the launch of a satellite into space as early as this

Just in case you missed it the first time: an activist media that is granted the presumption of “objectivity” and then uses that pretense of objectivity as a shield to advocate for — and, worse, to protect — a given political ideology and its agenda, is a corrupting influence in a democratic republic. And like it or not, most people still get their news from those who have the power

CBS News: Days after GM’s CEO Rick Wagoner was forced out by the Obama administration, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner left open the possibility that such moves could happen again. In an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric, Geithner acknowledged the government has had to do “exceptional things” – citing AIG as well as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. “We have changed management aboard,” he said. “And where we’ve

[cross-posted from Bloody Scott; Frank had a storied career as a London police detective and is heartbroken about his country’s decline, because it was love, you see (Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes); I could tell you what I know, but he wouldn’t have it; let’s just say he’s a person of rare character] The asinine Nick Clegg, the ‘Leader’ of the libdem losers is reported

iPod for Elizabeth II loaded with show tunes.

and for being required to handle pork as a condition of employment at a Minnesota processing plant. It’s not as though physicians and pharmacists are going to have to supply abortions and abortifactants as a condition of employment, though, is it? Oh, hey–there’s a voice mail message in which the NYT reporter tells whistleblower that she’s been told to stand down on Obama-ACORN story.

Dante, driven to where the sun is silent: