Matthew Franck, Bench Memos: It’s a trifecta in [Thursday’s] Washington Post by Ronald M. Green, who proposes a “Stem Cell Solution” for president-elect Obama. Green wants the incoming administration to change federal policy on funding for embryonic stem cell research (ESCR)—but he’d like to cloak the first step of a radical change in moderate clothing. I know this isn’t ordinary Bench Memos fare, but bear with me. (And the connection

From George Will (who, for irony’s sake, let me point out spent a month or so sniffing at the only remotely conservative nominee on either major party ticket): Conservatism’s current intellectual chaos reverberated in the Republican ticket’s end-of-campaign crescendo of surreal warnings that big government — verily, “socialism” — would impend were Democrats elected. John McCain and Sarah Palin experienced this epiphany when Barack Obama told a Toledo plumber that

Let the backscratching continue apace. I say Obama just goes ahead and commutes Tony Rezko’s sentence and names him HUD chief. I mean, if we’re going for Kafkaesque anyway, may as well go full out, right?