Watch Out For That Pete Townshend! A Florida group called "Protect Our Children" sent out postcards to residents close to Dolphins stadium to warn them that The Who's Pete Townshend would be in their hood to perform at the Superbowl.Townshend admitted to visiting child porn sites, but said he was doing research for a book.... »

Even Keynes Would've Rolled Over In His Grave Carnegie-Mellon economist Allan Meltzer weighs in on how the Obama administration is neglecting a key part of Keynes' plan -- that you can't run up a debt without a way to cover it. An excerpt from his conversation with CNN's Shawn Tully: If Keynes were alive today, what... »

Welcome To Soft Jihad Heidi Blake writes in the Telegraph that a Muslim bus driver in the UK locked passengers on the bus after he stopped it, took off his shoes, knelt on a prayer mat, faced Mecca and started to pray: Passengers said they looked on in stunned silence, fearing the driver may be... »

Air Space As annoying and hellish as flying's been lately, I'd really rather take off in one of these -- well, except that it's actually a restaurant at LAX, called Encounter. (Pretty groovy, too -- right out of the Jetsons, inside and out.) photo by Gregg Sutter »

A Dad And His Daughter Are Soon Parted Tragic and horrible story of a guy accused of abuse by his wife of 20 years. On iFeminist. A few excerpts: As many know, my wife of 20 years filed false claims against me of violent abuse against her one unforgetable day in August of this year. Molly,... »

Obamacare, North From a 2007 CBC story, headlined, "Wait times for surgery, medical treatments at all-time high. Compared to 1993, wait times in 2007 are 97 percent longer, report finds": Ontario recorded the shortest wait time overall (the wait between visiting a general practitioner and receiving treatment) at 15.0 weeks, followed by British Columbia (19.0 weeks)... »

Life Is A Formal Occasion Met Gregg at the Farmer's Market for a drink and a snack, then went on through the pouring rain to the Apple store at The Grove (where we first met) and Barnes & Noble, where he took this picture. »

A Religion Of Hate Text about this at Militant Islam Monitor, where Emerson Vermaat writes: It was in 2007 that Patrick Pouw joined a group of young Salafists in the Dutch city of Utrecht and followed a yearlong Salafist course given by Suhayb Salaam, son of the radical Salafist cleric Ahmed Salaam. Pouw managed to... »

Oops, We Did It Again! TSA in San Diego, in a really weird story, lets through a fake marshal who "deports" a real woman to the Philippines. Jose Arballo writes for San Diego News Network: A Hemet man who passed himself off as a U.S. Marshal was able to enter the international airport in San Diego... »

Act First, Think Later Richard Cohen in the New York Daily News on the administration's dimwittery in terrorist prosecution: Bit by bit, circumstances are forcing President Obama and his aides to come to grips with reality. The original plan to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the so-called 9/11 mastermind, in New York City has apparently been... »

These Tits Are Made For Blowing Could it be true? Via thereligionofpeace.com, a WND report says Muslim female suicide bombers are going to get surgically implanted explosives: LONDON - Agents for Britain's MI5 intelligence service have discovered that Muslim doctors trained at some of Britain's leading teaching hospitals have returned to their own countries to fit... »

One Step Forward And Two Steps Barack George Will tracks the president's habit of saying one thing one day and another thing entirely the next. Does he think we have such a short memory or that nobody's writing this stuff down? On Day One of his vow to take "meaningful steps to rein in our... »

I Don't Have To Keep My Heterosexuality A Secret I never had to come out to my parents or my friends or acquaintances as straight. In fact, I don't talk about my sexuality much, although I will, in the course of conversation, sometimes mention my boyfriend. And gays and lesbians I know don't mention they're... »

Why They're Going To Be Selling Your Grandchildren To The Chinese Your tax dollars paid for this nine-page document for CDC employees on how to use Twitter. How did I learn to use Twitter? I signed up for an account, took about 30 seconds to look at what other people were doing, and tweeted away. Yes, it's... »

Political Commentary From The Heartland The other McLaughlin Group: »

How Should Electronic Books Be Priced? Well, ideally, so those of us who write books can earn a living doing it instead of working as waitresses and making writing a hobby. Virginia Postrel, in The Atlantic, weighs in on why Amazon wants to charge less than Apple does -- even cater to readers who want... »

"They Just Haven't Had Time To Westernize!" Mark Steyn reveals what lazythink it is to rationalize Muslim women's wearing of the hijab, pulling out a piece of his writing from a few years back: The other night at dinner, I found myself sitting next to a Middle Eastern Muslim lady of a certain age. And... »

Do You See Rude People? Michael Schlesinger does. He e-mailed me: File it under Instant Karma. I was walking down Hollywood Blvd. one afternoon and arrived at Highland; the light was red. Two motorcycle cops were in front of the vehicles facing me. Shockingly, there was no traffic on Highland. While I'm waiting... »

Just Being Good Isn't Good Enough I'd wanted to go to grad film school, but my parents found the idea hilarous that they'd pay tens of thousands of dollars for me to watch movies, so I got a job, right out of undergrad, producing commercials, and learned on other people's dime. I worked with some really... »

Acting Your Age Continues To Be A Felony I keep posting about this because it keeps happening. From the Chicago Tribune, yet another case of teens being recast as child exploiters and kiddie pornographers. Who are they exploiting? Um...themselves. Kristen Schorsch reports: Last week, two middle school students in Valparaiso, Ind., were caught sending nude... »