Tuesday Round Up

I heard a sound like a million pumpkin seeds crying out at once and then...pie.

I pay attention, so that you don’t have to.

Senate Democrats run from Obama and to…McDonnell?
Anita Kumar, The Washington Post
It’s not President Obama, who some distanced themselves from last week during his trip to the commanwealth. It’s Gov. Bob McDonnell, a Republican who some of these same Democrats said was too conservative for Virginia during his 2009 election.

Perry fatally beclowns himself
David Freddoso, The Washington Examiner
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/perry-fatally-beclowns-himself

5 Ways Netflix Can Stop the Bleeding
Mashable
The company knows it messed up. Its third-quarter earnings letter to stockholders put it in pretty stark terms: “We compounded the problem with our lack of explanation about the rising cost of the expansion of streaming content, and steady DVD costs, so that … many perceived us as greedy.”

Obama’s Latter-Day McGovernism
Rich Lowry, National Review
After the rebuke of the 2010 election, the natural play for Obama was to drift to the center to erase memories of his first two years. He’d execute a version of the presidency-saving turnabout of Pres. Bill Clinton after 1994. But Obama is now to the left of where he was on Election Day 2010. He’s taken his cues less from Clinton than from Howard Dean.

Born On This Day
1881 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1973)
1888 – Richard E. Byrd, American explorer (d. 1957)
1912 – Minnie Pearl, American comedian and singer (d. 1996)
1913 – Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal (d. 1991)
1928 – Marion Ross, American actress
1940 – Bobby Knight, American basketball coach
1941 – Helen Reddy, Australian singer
1961 – Ward Burton, American auto racer
1963 – Tracy Nelson, American actress

Monday Round Up

Read this. Your week will be better, or at least you’ll be smarter.

Oh, say it isn’t so…

Newt’s Resurrection
Robert Costa, National Review
Four months later, after a series of sharp debates, his poll numbers are climbing and his coffers are stuffed. Behind the scenes, his aides aim to capitalize on the resurrection.

I repeat, Not Newt! Not Ever!

Democrats duck President Obama
Politico
…as Obama’s most recent forays into battleground states indicate, there are growing signs that many Democratic politicians don’t want to get too close to him either.

Cult of Global Warming Is Losing Influence
Michael Barone, Townhall.com
If carbon emissions were the only thing affecting climate, the global-warming alarmists would be right. But it’s obvious that climate is affected by many things, many not yet fully understood, and implausible that SUVs will affect it more than variations in the enormous energy produced by the sun.

World power swings back to America

The Telegraph
Within five years or so, the US will be well on its way to self-sufficiency in fuel and energy. Manufacturing will have closed the labour gap with China in a clutch of key industries. The current account might even be in surplus.

41% Say Their Views Closer to Tea Party’s Than to Wall Street Protesters’
Rasmussen Reports
The Occupy Wall Street protesters have been compared by some with the Tea Party protests that erupted more than two years ago in reaction to Washington’s big government spending plans. Americans are evenly divided in their opinions of those currently protesting against Wall Street but tend to see their own views as more in line with those of the Tea Party.

Born On This Day
51 – Titus Flavius Domitianus, Roman Emperor (d. 96)
1915 – Roger Milliken, American millionaire (d. 2010)
1939 – F. Murray Abraham, American actor
1947 – Kevin Kline, American actor
1961 – Mary Bono, American politician