Obama and his State Department need to look more closely at the route, they say. So they’re going to have to delay any decision until after the 2012 elections: The State Department announced on Thursday that it will explore a new route for the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline, pushing a final decision on the controversial project past the 2012 election. President Obama was under intense political pressure from environmentalists as

Yes, but GINNY THOMAS! Plus, look: bunnies!

Good, good stuff. If you have time to read the .pdf, I recommend it. If not, here’s the executive summary. (h/t Jon G, via Twitter)

Remember: it was the fringe extremist TEA Party non-compromisers who tried to stop this, while the “sane” establishment types who hope to pick our candidate for the GOP nomination worked overtime to whip up the votes needed to forge a glorious compromise with the Democrats — one that, in addition to giving Obama the debt increase spending he wanted — is now hoping to provide him with even more “revenue”

Well, I might have gone with “reiterates” rather than “reveals,” but then, I’m notoriously prescient. The New Left once ate the mainstream Democrat party because they hated bourgeois liberalism and needed a base of operations for progressivism with a mainstream pedigree. Could the next evolution see the party move so far left that it actually circles around to extreme right? If Michael Moore suddenly explodes, I’m going to start getting

FOXNews: A series of emails provided to the House Energy and Commerce Committee from individuals tied to Solyndra offer striking characterizations about running strategy with the White House to secure assistance for the now-bankrupt solar energy firm. Emails among George Kaiser, head of the George Kaiser Family Foundation; Ken Levit, the executive director of the Foundation; and Steve Mitchell, who manages Argonaut Private Equity and was a member of Solyndra’s

Or maybe, the software might prove helpful. Either way. What you choose depends on how much you have invested in Romney or Perry, frankly. And I’m all about giving you choices.

I echo Pablo’s sentiments: “Is there any point in having a job anymore?”*

And how freakin’ cool is that? We’re heading for a civil war, folks. Not north vs south this time, but rather the governed against the ruling class and their army of petty, insulated bureaucrats. And no, I don’t anticipate Mitt Romney will make a decent General. For either side.