Pete Hoesktra (T-MI) doesn’t understand why we should close Gitmo “while we are still under the threat from radical jihadists.”

Todd Zywicki argues that consumers who took out foolish loans and predatory credit cards were acting rationally. Maybe in Atlas Shrugged that might explain something, but it’s always good to remember that Ayn Rand wrote fiction. Tedious fiction at that.

So, the nation’s weightiest campaign arms dealers waltz about the Big Easy talking like Emily Post and asking the rest of us to put our napkins in our laps. That’s the news from New Orleans, where James Carville and Mary Matilin hosted a gathering of talons and fangs called “Taking the Poison Out of Partisanship.” [...]

On October 29, Jane wrote a scathing post about what Anna Eshoo’s provision to give biosimilars a route to approval would do, focusing on the 12 years–and probably more–of monopoly it would grant.

The following day–October 30–Eshoo responded.

Via Amanda Terkel, Sarah Palin objected to the forthcoming KSM trial thusly: The trial will afford Mohammed the opportunity to grandstand and make use of his time in front of the world media to rally his disgusting terrorist cohorts. It will also be an insult to the victims of 9/11, as Mohammed will no doubt [...]

California and a number of other states will face continued fiscal pressures, particularly once the stimulus aid to them runs out in 2011; there is no indication that the economy will rebound enough that states can meet their budgets by that time.

Betcha this morning there’ll be a whole lotta handwringing about the terror trials in NYC . Washington Journal: 7:30am – Daniel Lyons, Newsweek, Senior Editor.  8am – Pat Buchanan, Syndicated Columnist & Peter Fenn, Democratic Strategist.  9am – Chouchou Namegabe, 2009 Knight Int’l Journalism Award Recipient.  9:30am – Dimitri Simes, Nixon Center, President. ABC’s This [...]

A Bear Living. This Yogi Bear cartoon first aired on May 8, 1961.

This is the song to play for people who think the Dead is all sunshine and fluff: I spend a little time on the mountain, spend a little time on the hill, Things went down we don’t understand but I think in time we will… So what’s shakin’ in your neck of the woods?

It’s easy to praise constitutional rights in the abstract, to declare that you are a believer in free speech, the right to trial, the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments when you’re speaking only in general terms. The real test comes when you’re asked to deal with difficult specific cases.