Apparently, Obama told Mitch McConnell that if the GOP didn’t start releasing their hostages, he would recess appoint the whole lot of them. And, as a result of a direct threat, McConnell and his buddies released 27 of their hostages.

But Obama is calling for the Republicans to release all their hostages.

He really is nuts. It doesn’t take a genius to see through the “more snow is proof of global warming” claim. We’ve been using the wrong kind of thermometer. To progressives, the agenda is more important than the truth. Americans are starting to see through the lies and question every claim made by the media [...]

Chuck Grassley and Max Baucus were about to create the worst jobs bill possible, thank goodness it’s dead.

Louis Armstrong and Johnny Cash — Blue Yodel No. 9 from The Johnny Cash Show, October 28, 1970.

Nothing could be finer, than to be a terrorist in South Carolina…

Patterico knows bugger all about language, and he’s got bugger all to refute that James O’Keefe in both his ACORN videos and his stunt at Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office was involved in a bolloxed attempt to deceive.

Let’s give the substantive achievement to the Iraqis, yeah? But the administration truly does have a great achievement to its name here: Leaving Iraq is thoroughly uncontroversial.

It’s interesting seeing all these warhorses coming to grips with the fact that the Senators on the other side aren’t respecting the rules laid out for themselves, and how time may just be marching on by such rules.

Health Care for America Now has a new report out today on the insurance industry’s profits and customer base [pdf] and the statistics are shocking.

Harry Reid, in a rare bit of liveliness, has taken control of the jobs bill in the Senate, paring it down to its essential parts.