Breakfast Scramble: Who Knew the DOE Had a SWAT Team?

Leaders lead, Dumbo shucks, from Daily Caller:

A cascade of bad economic and political news knocked President Barack Obama off his game today, and prompted him to revive his 2008-style criticism of his predecessor, and also to suggest

Me at OTB just now:

Consider the scenario of capturing UBL alive.
The administration is faced with a choice;

They can either…

a) Go through the process of a civilian trial because that was what they wanted to employ for

• I’ve updated the core to WordPress 3.11
• I’ve update the plugins that needed it, including an update to QuickCache which seems to have aided the speed.
• Auto-database backups are still running and doing well.  The database is backed up every

As I type this, I’m in the sleeper of my truck. I have the net connectivity working, and so will now start being active on the blog again.

Faking the rage, from PolitiFact

PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year: ‘A government takeover of health care’

Retort fromPeter Suderman, Reason:

Politifact’s Lie of the Year Is An Exaggeration With Elements of Truth

On the other boot the idea

An interesting problem showed up after last week’s update.  I started running out of memory while manipulating plug ins.  Turns out that the stock memory allocation settings wordpress had werelow for some of the plug ins I’ve been running.  I’ve

Several notes.

• Well, first of all, we have had some site issues this morning, apparently relate to an issue with a plugin update. For some reason, the webserver cache isn’t responding as it should.  I’ve disabled it to allow business

The Day Obama Care died. Barack Obama does not care about anybody except himself and he doesn’t hide it.

What pay gap? Christina Hoff Sommers, American:

The claim that American women as a group face systemic wage discrimination

We know this  story has been out a while, but can’t resist diving in with some recommendations to help the New York Times get back in touch with being a Newspaper again. After all, they got rather badly burned by

You’d think they’d learn, even in far-leftist Portland OR: KATU:

ALBANY, Ore. – At the Oaks Apartments in Albany, the management can fly their own flag advertising one and two bedroom apartments – but residents have been told they

Update!  The first hour of today’s show will also include discussion about today’s surprise announcement of Jeff Boeyink joining the Iowa’s Terry Branstad for Governor campaign!  Don’t miss it!

This week, once again, I will be hosting the internet

Update! Link to podcast of today’s show!

Last Tuesday (September 29), I hosted the second half of Tim Albrecht’s program “The Bean Walker Live!” on Des Moines Local Live, and today begins 3 weeks of hosting the program in

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• Tea Parties, Iranian Style: Somewhere in my travels last night, I stumbled across a

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• The Honeymoon is officially over:  Jennifer Rubin:
  

  The jig is up.

  The stimulus is a

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• I have the POWER…. So now Arlen Specter is willing to compromise on “Card Check”?  I