WEATHERVANE COLIN POWELL, WHO ENDORSED OBAMA IN 2008, is waffling on 2012 and reminding people that he’s actually a Republican.

RAND SIMBERG SPOTS SOME GOOD SPACE REPORTING: Key observation: “The House bill awaiting action would give twice as much money to Russia for transporting astronauts and cargo to the space station as it would give to U.S. companies working to build that capacity.”

TUNKU VARADARAJAN: Tea Party From A to Z.

I HEAR THAT TEDDY ROOSEVELT LIKED HIS OUIJA BOARD: Christine O’Donnell makes light of witchcraft comment.

Not kidding about Roosevelt. When the Tafts were over, they asked a then-new Ouija Board whether Taft would be President or Chief Justice, and it supposedly responded, “BOTH.”

Related: “Does the left actually understand how they look when they decide the Delaware election should turn on WitchCraft and masturbation as opposed to say….jobs and the economy? The fact is the left would likely actually approve of the witchcraft business, the idea is to convince people who might vote for O’Donnell on the right that she is unsuitable for support, electoral or financial.”

Hey, when Hillary Clinton was holding seances in the White House it was an intellectual exercise.

JIM DEMINT: Tea Party Candidates Will Get Republicans To Senate Majority.

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: GOP Moderates Should Practice What They Preach:

For decades, moderate Republican officeholders and party officials — encouraged by experts in the liberal commentariat — lectured conservatives that the GOP had to be a “big tent,” that in order to win elections, that the party’s candidates had to “move to the center.” For that reason, defeated conservatives were supposed to support winning moderates, especially in liberal Northeastern states. Failing to do so was “divisive,” according to the experts. There was indeed wisdom in the principle, as articulated in William F. Buckley’s maxim that conservatives should vote “for the conservative most able to win,” and in President Reagan’s famous 11th commandment – “thou shalt not speak ill of any Republican.”

But some of the nation’s most prominent moderate Republicans are singing different tunes now, especially when Republican primary voters turn them out of office.

Read the whole thing. Remember when people were saying that the Tea Partiers were going to be the immature spoilers?

HOW TO DEAL WITH “DISTRACTED DRIVING?” Put Up Roadside Signs!

CHANGE: “After an unusually sharp slowdown in trading this summer, analysts are rethinking their profit forecasts for 2010.”