So, I’m here in sunny Florida, visiting M&D and having a last family vacation before Brendan goes off to college, and really as family vacations go, it’s not bad, because one of the things that I learned by watching my dad closely is that it’s absurd to go into these things with any expectations or specific objects in mind, and expect to return home with your sanity intact. He’s a

Some torture is more forgivable than others, I guess. h/t Gregory and CP. **** related in kind: Byron York: If you go to Memeorandum, the most talked-about story on the Web today, or at least as of 11:20 this morning, is Peter Baker’s New York Times piece, “Banned Techniques Yielded ‘High Value Information,’ Memo Says.” The story begins: President Obama’s national intelligence director told colleagues in a private memo last

From Scott Powell, vice president of ELP Capital and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, writing in IBD: […] why would the Obama administration say they want to regulate venture capital firms? Some suggest that it may be an end run in the undeclared war on wealth because venture capital can create enormous fortunes outside of taxable income. But there are several other plausible answers. The first is that

Darleen’s already done the hard work of putting together the post, but I wanted to extract something former Bush speech writer Michael Gerson said in his Hewitt interview for special emphasis, because I think it gives insight into one prong of the strategy behind Obama’s remarkable and unconscionable buckling to his far-left base on the issue of potential “torture” prosecutions: I think it’s a terrible error for a couple of