IAIN MURRAY: Three Things You Absolutely Must Know About ClimateGate.

AMY ALKON: Screaming kids on planes, and their rude parents.

We’ve raised ours to be a well-behaved traveler, but not all kids take to it as well. Somebody should write a book!

HEY HEY, HO HO, Tim Geithner has got to go?

CHRIS DODD UPDATE: HARTFORD COURANT: Do The Dump Dodders Matter? Well, they’re certainly not a good sign.

THE HILL: Side Deals Stack Up as Health Bills Move Along. Hey, they’re bribing ’em with your money, so why not?

BREITBART TV: ‘Bury Them’: Fresno Homecare Workers Describe SEIU Threats.

CHANGE! Goodbye jobs, hello mom and dad, say young adults.

On every front, the country’s in the very best of hands!

MEGAN MCARDLE:

I have to say, I’m woefully underimpressed with the argument that I am now hearing to the effect that “Medicare will bankrupt America anyway if we can’t cut health care costs, so we might as well do health care reform.”

Anyone who has dated a manic-depressive has heard some version of this argument. “I can barely make ends meet now, so I might as well use my tax refund check to buy a boat! After all, if I can’t figure out a way to fix my budget, I’m going to go bankrupt anyway.”

And anyone who has dated a manic-depressive knows where this ends. . . . If we pass this health care reform bill, a bunch of people are going to leave their employer health insurance under this plan for some subsidized plan–millions of them, according to the CBO. If the government goes bankrupt, millions of people will lose that subsidized coverage and be much worse off than if we’d done nothing.

Read the whole thing.

ARMY OF DAVIDS TRAINING: Jim Hoft, Dana Loesch, John Loudon Speak At The Show Me Institute’s Blogging Conference.

J.D. JOHANNES: Tribal politics and blood debts in the new Iraq.

ONE MONTH LATER, Assessing Windows 7.

NICK GILLESPIE: Mississippi Drug War Blues: The Case of Cory Maye.

Plus, Radley Balko: A New Trial For Cory Maye.

CHARLIE MARTIN: Climategate: Violating the Social Contract of Science: The scientific method only works when fellow researchers can implicitly trust the results offered by their colleagues.

Plus, George Monbiot (!) writes: “It’s no use pretending this isn’t a major blow.” Plus: “I believe that the head of the unit, Phil Jones, should now resign. Some of the data discussed in the emails should be re-analysed.”

Mark Steyn calls Phil Jones the Designated Fall Guy.

UPDATE: The Fix Is In.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader George Hamid writes: “The more I read about Climategate, the more the term ‘Piltdown Man’ pops into my head.”

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: Will The Unemployment Disaster Be Obama’s Katrina? “Just as Katrina exposed critical weaknesses in the priorities and competence of the Bush administration, the unfolding unemployment disaster is threatening to do the same for the Obama White House.”

ED MORRISSEY: Obama WH scrambled for story to smear Walpin. “Will the national media finally take some interest in the story now? The White House not only deliberately misled Congress on Walpin’s firing, they also withheld these new documents until after Grassley and Issa made their initial report on the investigation on Friday. . . . The new information shows that Obama fired Walpin for political purposes, not for cause. The White House also broke the law, at least initially, by not giving Congress the proper notification before terminating Walpin (they adhered to the regulation after being called on this violation by postponing Walpin’s termination date). The firing appears to have been motivated to protect an Obama ally (Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson) from having allegations of using federal funds to pay off employees and avoid sexual harassment charges exposed.”

LOOKING FOR WAR ON TERROR NEWS? Check out Fred Pruitt’s Rantburg.

MEGAN MCARDLE ON CLIMATEGATE: “The more ardent defenders of the emailers are glossing over the fact that in some cases, they really seem to have behaved quite badly, and with less-than-stellar scientific integrity. But I have yet to see the makings of a grand conspiracy, rather than the petty bullying of the powerful over the weak, the insider of the outsider.” The disappearing data seems a bit fishy, though.

Meanwhile, Andrew Bolt invokes The Simpsons.

And John Hinderaker offers more from the East Anglia Archives.

ANN ALTHOUSE CHALLENGES ANDREW SULLIVAN. “I will look at the items and say what I think, with an eye toward Sullivan’s assertion: whether we are dealing with a person who is not just the usual politico but clinically delusional.”

ROBERT SAMUELSON: Health ‘reform’ that burdens our young.

AT AMAZON, starting Black Friday on Monday.

BOINGBOING: The Obama “Hope Is Fading” T-Shirt.

WHEN THE PRESS CAN IGNORE A SEX SCANDAL, you know it’s covering for politicians, not covering them.

DAN RIEHL: The Republican Elites Versus The Grassroots.

THERE IS SOME JUSTICE IN THIS WORLD: Captain Sully Getting “Rock Star Sex.”

UPDATE: Various readers think it’s extra justice that it’s Captain Sully as opposed to Blogger Sully. Well . . . One successfully crash-landed a plane with no engine power in the Hudson River, and the other is defending the Obama Administration. So degree-of-difficulty has to go to the blogger, really. . . .

DAVE WINER: “I assumed that because we elected Obama to end the war in Iraq that it went without saying that the war in Afghanistan would be ended as well. Apparently not so.”

Nothing goes without saying. And every promise has an expiration date. Every single one.

UPDATE: “Dave Winer should have been paying closer attention.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Louis Abelman didn’t quite get this, which was perhaps a bit too pithy unless you’ve been paying close attention. Here’s what I sent him by way of clarification:

Well, you hate to spell this stuff out as it spoils it. But here goes:

(1) Nothing goes without saying — Obama’s “atmostpherics” were designed to fool people like Dave, but if you paid attention, which Dave didn’t you saw that the atmospherics pointed one way and the statements the other. (2) Every promise has an expiration date — remember, he promised to get us out of Iraq posthaste? And yet . . .

Okay, maybe it was too pithy, I’ll grant you that, though it seemed clear to me.

And if mocking Dave Winer is wrong, I don’t want to be right!

And Lou commented, “Dang! I never get this Limbaugh parody style. Seriously, I feel like a humorless liberal scold every time. Which is the point? Cheers.” Well, it’s not the point. But it sometimes comes of responding to what you expect people to be saying as opposed to what they’re actually saying. And, to be fair, sometimes I’m a bit too pithy. But that’s supposed to be part of the charm.