Just a few more items for the I-will-not-rest president to "get to the bottom of."  

However, given Mr. Obama still hasn't gotten to the bottom of his whereabouts on the evening of September 11, 2012, it may be a while yet before he can focus on these newer questions of ethical dysfunction within his administration.

And by then, I expect, this will all be too old and stale to warrant further attention.

The mainstream media, after standing by and watching the Obama administration trash the Second Amendment, the Appointments Clause and the separation of powers, to name just a few, have at long last rediscovered the Constitution.  Bracing.

Great video.  Thank you, Blue Yeti, for posting it.

I love the HD view from LEO and all the weightless tricks.  And this will no doubt turn out to be the ultimate keepsake for Commander Hadfield's family.

I am willing to bet that there are plenty of women of every hue who would like to give Mr. Ramsey a hug right now.  

Extremely fun to visualize something so subtle.  Thanks!

I distinctly remember the day in 1992 when I chanced upon some guy on the radio with the strange name of "Rush."  Miraculously, this Limbaugh fellow agreed with me and my worldview--pretty amazing then and now for the San Francisco area.  I instantly became a dittohead.

Nowadays, Mark Levin is far and away my favorite, primarily because he is the only national host who routinely presents information that is news to me.  Levin brings deep knowledge of constitutional law, history and political philosophy to every show; always arguing from first principles.  He is personally kind-hearted but politically pugnacious--for those of you unfamiliar with Levin, imagine a full-on Reagan conservative version of Chris Christie.  

Like Prager, Levin is more than a talk show host, in his case heading up Landmark Legal Foundation, which is fighting the good fight in favor of school choice and against Obamacare.

Levin often becomes verbally combative with liberals phoning in to needle him or deliver talking points, but is reasonable with those open to an actual back-and-forth. 

Clearly,  the litigator hosting style is not to everyone's taste, so it is great that we have choices.

"Ineptitude" is an essential component, but I think its highest and best complement is "deceit," giving us "deceptitude."

When gay marriage wins a popular vote, the will of the people is widely celebrated;  when SSM loses, the courts step in to reverse the result, as in California.  Heads we win, tails you lose.

In short, gay marriage opponents see themselves subject to unanswerable charges of anti-gay bigotry for opposing the new definition of marriage, with absolutely no possibility of prevailing.  Under these circumstances, some opponents will conclude they may as well get out front and wave the pro-SSM banner.

Not the only factor in the groundswell of support for gay marriage, but not nothing.

Finally, a crisis the Left cannot exploit.  

First, we already have total "bomb control."

Second, the public is now viscerally aware of a counterpoint to Newtown:  An armed terrorist is on the loose, the authorities have surrounded your neighborhood and are conducting a door-to-door search while you shelter-in-place.  Without lawful access to a firearm, how do you defend your family should the desperado invade your home intent on precipitating a standoff with police? 

Ross, you touch on something that I failed to mention in my original post:  mission uncertainty.  One of the joys of the modern automobile is that it enables unrestricted mobility.  You get in and go.  If you discover that your teenager has left the tank empty, a few minutes at the local filling station solves the problem.  In contrast, the land of the EV is one where each driver pulling out of the driveway becomes a pilot on a mission.  Fuel status is critical in flight planning, likewise with the EV.  Adverse weather--headwinds for the pilot, cold for the EV driver--becomes a critical concern.  

Some folks like the commute-as-intellectual-challenge thing.  Great.  Most have other problems to contend with.

I think Nissan is losing money on every vehicle sold for political purposes--achieving zero-emission fleet sales percentages imposed by California, for one.  

On the question of battery performance:  EVs were actually first commercialized before the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine.  After more than a century of development, if we still need to stack several electrochemistry breakthroughs, as you do, in order to postulate a viable product...well, call me skeptical.

I agree with your calculation, but I still can't stop wondering:  In the all-EV world of environmentalist dreams, what happens when there are no more fully depreciated vehicles providing crucial mobility for millions of citizens of modest means?  Students, retirees, low-skilled workers, cash-strapped medical technology entrepreneurs with college tuition bills (that last category would be me)...all rely on vehicles that would not exist in a scrap-at-eight-years-old culture.

Jared Lee Loughner murdered my aunt and I think we need to do something about treating dangerously mentally ill individuals.  However, our legislators are focusing on a distraction, not a solution.  

How about a "national conversation" about how Loughner escaped follow-up on his mental state despite seeming scary-dangerous enough to be expelled from college on behavioral grounds?  We might also discuss how it happened that Holmes's psychiatrist diagnosed a homicidal threat, with the university changing the locks to protect itself but taking no further action (apart from attempting a cover-up after the Aurora massacre).  And what about more details on reports that Adam Lanza "snapped" when he learned that his mother was in the early stages of dilatory involuntary commitment proceedings?

We did not need background checks to find Loughner, Holmes and Lanza.  They were hiding in plain sight.  They still are.

If the federally-mandated car of the future had been foisted on us in the 1950s, there would be no cars at all in Cuba today.  

A new car buyer may only be interested in 5-8 years of service life, but today plenty of others, unable to afford any new car, purchase that used jalopy  when the original owner tires of it.  If the fleet has an eight year expiration date, then millions will be limited to bicycles and mass transit.

Fascinating stuff.  Dr. Zubrin makes an extremely compelling argument.  I wonder why the Open Fuel Standard Bill he cites hasn't gone anywhere?  One would think that natural gas and coal interests would be in favor, but I suppose the corn lobby would work hard to kill it.

I accept the criticisms of my link to outdated vote counts.  But I maintain that the best way to take on the Left in a national election is a full-spectrum conservative message, grounded in ideas and American founding principles.

I desperately wanted Romney to win; I donated a hefty sum--by Savage family standards--to his campaign; I was fortunate enough to meet Mitt and shake his hand; I believe him to be a thoroughly decent man who would have been a gadzillion times better as president than Mr. Obama.  That said, he ran a narrowly focused competence campaign aimed at winning independent votes.  He succeeded in this but lost against the more energized Democratic base.