Sorry, was out at dinner. It being Cinco de Mayo, I had the fish.

Not everybody is willing to pretend that Obama’s “gutsy” call to take out public enemy number 1 — after sleeping on it, and dithering for several months — was all that gutsy after all. And of course, with this President, you either show the proper deference, or you get the back, bitch. Ms Burlingame, of course, raises the important point our media will not: why is Eric Holder still “investigating”

Stimulus! […] home prices now sit 0.7% below their March 2009 low. Over the past nine months, they’re down 11.5%. This is ugly, to be sure. Nationally, home prices declined 5.0% over the past year. All four regions of the U.S. saw their prices decline, year-over-year: * Midwest: -6.3% * West: -6.2% * South: -5.2% * Northeast: -1.6% Clear Capital blames the rapid decline in prices on the saturation of

But don’t worry: if the media keeps telling us that the economy is recovering, and that we have Barack Obama to thank for that (when he’s not killing terrorists, or making the wetlands safe for silverfish or some such), then it really must be so! The rest is just racist TEA Party types being all divisive and extreme and whatnot. Reuters: The number of Americans filing for jobless aid rose

“Obama floats plan to tax cars by the mile”: News of the draft follows a March Congressional Budget Office report that supported the idea of taxing drivers based on miles driven. Among other things, CBO suggested that a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax could be tracked by installing electronic equipment on each car to determine how many miles were driven; payment could take place electronically at filling stations. The CBO

It certainly wouldn’t surprise me. But then, consider the source: Osama bin Laden’s teenage daughter witnessed her father’s death in the compound in Abbottabad according to an ISI official. The girl is now in Pakistani custody together with Bin Laden’s wife. The wife, who speaks only Arabic and who was injured in the attack, said on regaining consciousness that she was Yemeni and that she had been in the compound