At American Thinker, Marc Sheppard on James Hansen: In a wild rant in Sunday’s Guardian responding to British Prime Minster Gordon Brown’s green-lighting of the controversial Kingsnorth power plant, the head of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies managed to outdo even his own sophomoric guilt trips and fear-mongering. Repeating last year’s call for a moratorium on British coal-fired plants, which he has since extended to Angela Merkel, Barack Obama,

Via Weasel Zippers: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday the Obama administration will make “a concerted effort” to restore the image of the United States in the Islamic world and will seek to “enlist the help of Muslims around the world against the extremists.” Clinton, who on Wednesday will travel to Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country, told students at Tokyo University that “this is one of

Mostly a discussion of Shapiro’s 1599–topicality in Shakespeare–and laying the groundwork for subsequent classes. Please join the conversation on AIM at 8:00 EST if you’re able. I’ll make it available elsewhere for those who can’t attend. I’m vermontaigne. Please email me whether or not you’ll be able to attend tonight. There will be discussion of material, but much of this will be focused on organizational matters.

I just don’t know how to please you. The idea that Michigan can’t create enough garbage for its own needs is ludicrous. Patterico on Neiwert on the Bernard Goldberg murders.

Boy, that seemed like some kind of bizarre exoticism, didn’t it? You know, like a message in a bottle from a cargo culture, or something. Unfortunately, we now realize just how widespread this mentality is: Christians committing stonings and beheadings? The reason such perversions of reality can be aired is that the entertainment industry knows that any horror, no matter how ludicrously false and offensive, can be attributed to Christians

It can’t surprise anyone, really, but according to this RedState piece, the Fairness Doctrine is rearing its head again, insisting on “diversity” of messages on the airwaves, and now, it would appear, online as well.  The new news is that the administration may be farming out the task of what constitutes acceptable diversity to . . . MoveOn.org, which has been compiling a large database of unacceptable outlets. Strangely enough,

Because it’s clear how much he cares by the way he takes care of his half-brother even as he rallies for Raila Odinga, yes?

Because this seems profound.

“…and you may as well go ahead and Supersize that for me, too, honey…”

The “reasonable” explanations from Marc Ambinder notwithstanding, the fact of the matter is, welfare reform is being intentionally rolled back under Obama. From NRO: Prior to reform, the federal government simply gave the states more money for every family they added to the welfare rolls. The predictable result was that the states worked hard to maximize their welfare caseloads in order to maximize the amount of federal funding they could