Quick Hits

Things I've wanted to blog about but haven't yet gotten to:

The Hill - "House Democrats kicked off their annual retreat here with a vow to improve the flawed messaging that contributed to the loss of their majority last fall." It they think "messaging" rather than their "message" cost them 63 seats, they are have successfully crossed denial and territory known in psychiatric circles as "certifiable." But then, I've been saying for years, in all sincerity, that their leader, Crazy Nancy, really is certifiable.

Village Voice - Tony Bagels, Meatball, Junior Lollipops and Fats heading for the slammer along with more than a hundred other wiseguys.

George Will - "The idea that America's problem of governance is one of inadequate resources misses this lesson of the last half-century: No amount of resources can prevent government from performing poorly when it tries to perform too many tasks, or particular tasks for which it is inherently unsuited."

Volokh Conspiracy - Affirmative action again before the Court. Its expiration date is long past.

NRO - Jim DeMint promises legislation to prevent Congress or the Fed from bailing out profligate states.

Detroit News - Half of the city schools to close without more aid. But tenure and public union salarys remain intact. Just burn down the city, salt the earth and start anew somewhere else.

Jerusalem Post - How does Hamas stay in power. In large measure by skimming off the foreign aid.

Newsweek - The daughter of the Pakistani Governor of Punjab Province, slain for speaking out in defense of a Christian sentenced to die for blasphemy, discusses the dysfunctional stranglehold Islamists have on her nation.

WSJ - Palinoia. James Taranto attempts plumbs the dark, fetid depths of the leftie soul to diagnose what it is about Palin that drives them bat-shit crazy.

PJM - Norway wakes up to find their nation in mortal peril from the Islamicists within. At some point, this Europe-wide problem will reach critical mass and a lot of blood will be spilled.

AIFD - Military's Muslim chaplain vetting system poses significant risk to national security

AIFD - "If 2010 was the year America finally woke up to political Islam's ne farious reach on US soil, with luck 2011 will be the year we launch an offensive against it."

The American - How Fannie, Freddie and government failure caused the great recession.