The prospect of saving millions of homes from foreclosure is appealing, but the potential for having to waive consumer protection statutes in their states is certainly not.

Earlier hopes that restoring offsite power to the control rooms at Units 1-2 and 3-4 would allow quick reactivation of normal cooling systems were dashed with discovery, anticipated in our coverage, that critical pumps, valves and pressure censors might be damaged and need repair or replacement. In the meantime, radiation fears are spreading to tap water.

• Operation Stupid: not really working.
  
• Ibid.
• 1,000 rebels vs. Gaddafi’s army?
• “A panic” in Tokyo.
• Stay classy, Donald!

Newt Gingrich may be vile and hypocritical, but at least he isn’t Palin…that’s pretty much his campaign strategy.

Fantasia — Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor.

If you’re like me, and I know I am, you are looking forward to the 2012 presidential campaign with all the enthusiasm you would exhibit for undergoing a back-alley root canal administered by vicious thugs, sarcastic nuns, and savage Nazgûl, or else savage thugs, vicious nuns, and sarcastic Nazgûl.

Scott Walker did not run primarily on a platform of killing public employee unions and becoming a conservative darling. His slogan during the Wisconsin gubernatorial campaign was “Wisconsin is open for business.” He put a premium on attracting new businesses to the state.

Now, his policies have sent other businesses throughout the state scurrying.

I suspect the medical marijuana industry, thanks to its fast growth, is approaching an important financial tipping point as it becomes legal in more states. At a certain size, it will have enough employees, related businesses who depend on it, and governments who rely on its tax revenue that it will become integral in the greater economic web.

Ho-hum. Another day, another set of Peterson patsies explaining yet again why Grandma must starve so that their billionaire bosses and their buddies can keep their twenty-odd homes in the Hamptons and Hobe Sound.

A major provision of the health care law is the excise tax, which was actually designed for the exact purpose of making employer-provided insurance less generous.