Terrific article about what NASA and other agencies aren’t telling us about the correlation between solar activity and climate change. Hmmmm. I think the administration might have to step in to impose more regulation. Progress: administration keeps online transparency pledge.

Stacy McCain is quite right to state that everyone involved in the publication of that vile rant ought to be cashiered. Meanwhile, Patterico poses William Saletan’s questions regarding the humanity of the late-term unborn. Turning the question around, if Saletan believed that Vietnam or Iraq were murderous, illegal wars of aggression, why did he not follow in the steps of Bill Ayers or the recruiter shooter? Or if, to reproduce

David Brooks calls government-run GM motors a quagmire: The end result is that G.M. will not become more like successful car companies. It will become less like them. The federal merger will not accelerate the company’s viability. It will impede it. We’ve seen this before, albeit in different context: An overconfident government throws itself into a dysfunctional culture it doesn’t really understand. The result is quagmire. The costs escalate. There

The Robert Wone case, which I’ve written about here The excellent blog that emerged to keep the case in the public eye is here.

Had info disturbin’: In other words, Senator Dick Durbin has had since November some very significant corroborating evidence that Governor Rod Blagojevich really was corruptly auctioning off a Senate seat. This is information that would have been very helpful when it came to the timing of Blagojevich’s impeachment, seating Burris, and/or fixing the entire problem with a special election. And yet, Durbin did or said nothing.

Authorities have identified the soldier killed in Monday’s double-shooting outside a U.S Army recruitment office in west Little Rock. According to Pulaski County Coroner Garland Camper, 23-year-old William Long of Conway died shortly after being transported to a Little Rock hospital. Police say the incident occurred around 10:15 a.m. at a U.S. Army Navy Career Center inside the Ashley Square Shopping Center at 9112 North Rodney Parham Road. According to

I wonder whether Obama’s Aunt Zeituni’s being taken care of. The other person, you’ve probably never heard about. Save your outrage for Wiggers. Speaking of human rights issues–dingoes ate my baby. Reprise.

Short version. In a conference call, yesterday, according to NPR, White House spokespeople stated that they don’t want to be in the business of owning most of GM for long. So, even if there emerges a viable GM from the other side of bankruptcy, shares are going to be sold at an enormous loss. Moreover, it’s been announced that under the new union-succoring management, GM will not be permitted to

Let’s just say that I reserve the right to nuke the comments of anyone who advocates fascistic censorship, simply because I find it amusing when they complain. The preceding post has been disparately received, with Jimmie using it as an example of unequivocal condemnation, while Roy Edroso, who seems to have something stuck in his craw regarding this blog, is trotting it out as an example of equivocation under the