Posted this to Twitter last evening, but for those who haven’t already seen it, there’s this interesting time line from Doug Ross, who concludes with a summary and a follow-up question pertaining to what he found: Summary: In early 2010, Gary Grindler was intimately involved in all aspects of Operation Fast and Furious. During the height of the operation, Grindler visited the President on four separate occasions in only two

Robert Costa at NRO has the transcript of this morning’s Cain conference call. Stacy McCain, alas, was forced to borrow from it. Of note: Cain still denies sexual relations with that woman, Ms. White. So there’s that. And now here we are: a GOP primary race that is coming down to 1) a pro-Amnesty, pro-ethanol subsidy uber Beltway insider who, while clearly smart, is also too clever by half —

Hell, no, son / Aint gonna get the gun / Seen a lotta things / And they’ve only just begun / ‘Cause the minute they speak / Is the minute that I run / Ten clicks south to the border station* (h/t Pat Dollard)

…they just fight each other with canes. Or centerpieces. Or whatever else may be close by. Rumors abound that the only reason Zombie Ray Nitschke didn’t join in the melee is that he’s been busy training to “eat the shit” out of former Bears halfback Gayle Sayers “sometime real soon.”

Richmond Tea Party demands deposit refund, receives audit notice. For social justice. — Which, before you Hobbits start prattling on about imaginary left-wing conspiracies, let me remind you that when the very “progressive” Occupy LA protest group began, like their Richmond TEA Party analogues, making ludicrous demands of city government, the Democrat mayor (like the IRS) responded quite forcefully. By, you know, negotiating with them and granting Occupy LA free

Turns out protection involves a layered missile defense system. Which means we can forget about it. So long as a single child in the US is forced to watch standard DVDs or drink powdered fruit juice, the US military has no business gearing up for the unlikely event that sage, circumspect actors like North Korea or Iran, et al., might try something so silly as an EMP attack. Besides. We’re

So. Obama wants a permanent big government client state that keeps the poor dependent and keep the ideological left, churned out by the institutions its overrun and coopted as “educational” organs, employed as its propaganda arm — challenged with keeping those on the taking end of the centralized redistributive model with “voting their economic interests” And more, he and his campaign are actually willing to come right out and profess

Okay, so I paraphrased. But you get the idea. Honestly, guys. If you don’t vote GOP and you don’t support the conservatism putatively at the Party’s ideological heart, then from an ontological standpoint I’m not quite sure what it is, exactly, that allows you to claim yourself a “Republican” to begin with? What? The No Labels Party not exactly catching fire like you expected? No populist uprising for your sort

Imprimatur of legislative respectability for improperly-zoned gay brothels / getting rich off of market collapses engineered by government, hardest hit. Legacy! My only solace is that when other politicians for whom Frank has legitimated cynical corruption begin building statues to him or naming buildings in his honor, the youth of America will — at times unknowingly, and without the ironic foresight — properly and justifiably deface such totems with Sharpie

Seems a natural follow-up to my previous post: after all, if we’re going to be “nudged” into the 21st-century version of the Pinto, we might as well understand how we wound up strapped in to our fuel-efficient tin cans, praying Tom Hanks and the boys can figure out a way to keep us from burning up on re-entry. WSJ: Here’s one good way to consider the vote in 2012: It’s