The New Republic

When I read this quote, from a New York Observer story about disillusioned pro-Obama hipsters... Mr. Mahfouda said that the flag is now in his living room and hasn’t been unfurled in over a year. There are no immediate plans to bring it back out again for 2012. “My intuitive response is that [Obama] hasn’t done a ton,” he said. “He hasn’t really rocked the boat too much.” READ MORE >>

-- With the mercenaries in Libya. -- Nine of the best studies on the stimulus. -- How the residents of the National Zoo anticipated and responded to the earthquake. READ MORE >>

In 2001, as the economy slowed, Republicans endorsed temporary payroll tax cuts in order to boost demand. And again in 2008, when the economy slowed, they endorsed payroll tax cuts to boost demand: READ MORE >>

READ MORE >>

Ohio man steals truck so he can ram through the wall of a sex shop and steal a synthetic vagina: LORAIN COUNTY, Ohio—  Deputies in Lorain County are on the lookout for a man who pulled a 'crash and grab' with a stolen tractor-trailer truck in an AdultMart and stole an $800 sex toy. READ MORE >>

READ MORE >>

The most interesting question about the presidential election is whether President Obama can continue to defy political gravity. The abysmal state of the economy would, in ordinary conditions, mean almost certain defeat for an incumbent president. But two factors are, at least for now, keeping Obama competitive. First, Obama's popularity is holding up better than conditions would normally indicate. READ MORE >>

Byron York, writing in the Washington Examiner, points out that entitlement spending has not caused the short-term deficit to rise: READ MORE >>

National Review's Kevin Williamson has a post, responding to me, entitled READ MORE >>

 -- C-SPAN's tribute to presidential losers. -- The bright side of a slow economic recovery. -- A long look at Clarence Thomas.  -- Why do earthquakes happen on the east coast anyway?   READ MORE >>