• Yeah, this is going to end well.
• Likudniks GOPers heart Bibi.
• A triumph for small government in OK.
• Speed wasn’t the problem, Mr. President.
• Paul Ryan’s constituents don’t like Paul Ryan.

Americans are united in one collective shrug over Newt Gingrich.

Zucchero featuring Solomon Burke — Diavolo In Me.

I’ve not read this study in any detail, so I can’t comment on it beyond what I confess is a skim-over. Scott McLemee’s take is probably about right; indeed, the argument seems rather banal: to sum up, essentially, the “anti-war movement” of the last decade dried up because Obama won the presidency, even though Obama [...]

On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon rig off the coast of Louisiana exploded, causing an oil gusher which spewed over 205 million gallons of oil and 225,000 tons of methane into the Gulf of Mexico. In the ensuing months, a lot of time and money has been invested in selling the idea that the Gulf has been healed, and on the road to recovering its former glory. We don’t have to buy that particular product. We can instead take the lessons of folks like the Center for Biological Diversity, which used available public data to chronicle the toll on marine wildlife in the Gulf.

Although most states give their electoral college votes to the presidential candidate that wins the most votes in the state, they are technically free to assign those votes based on whatever criteria they want. So, the national popular vote campaign is trying to use this function to essentially replace the arcane and undemocratic electoral college system with a true, national democratic election.

Congratulations, DOD, for finally charging one of the alleged worst of the worst. Now when will the government charge those who tortured al-Nashiri?

This will play out in the 2012 elections, but the undercurrent of this meeting and others like it is a dissatisfaction that the will of the public is not being followed even when it’s completely clear. I don’t know what it will take to reverse that.

In a bit of a surprise, assistant US Attorney JoAnne Kloppenburg has filed for a statewide recount of the Wisconsin state Supreme Court election, according to the Government Accountability Board, which oversees the process there.

At the end of the official canvass, Republican Justice David Prosser had a 7,316-vote lead out of 1.5 million ballots cast. This fell just within the 0.5% margin necessary for Kloppenburg to request a recount that would be paid for by the state.

Claiming future triggers are fixing the problem is like my claiming my solution to become a millionaire by age 40 is to have a sternly worded letter sent to myself in five years demanding future Jon Walker come up with a plan to make a million dollars.