ROBOTIC SPACEPLANE: A surveillance tool?

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MEET JOE SESTAK: “David Gregory on Meet the Press asked Joe Sestak a rather straightforward question: ‘What I’m asking is whether you are an Obama Democrat who supported stimulus, who supported health care, who’s with him on all the major elements of his agenda. Are you or are you not an Obama Democrat?’ His answer was long and rambling and no answer at all.”

K.C. JOHNSON: Whatever happened to Duke’s Group Of 88? “In any other profession, behavior as outrageous as that exhibited in the lacrosse case by the faculty in Duke’s humanities and (some) social sciences departments would have prompted at the least intensive soul-searching and (in the corporate world, at least), dismissal.”

NOW THAT I’M BACK, I want to thank my stalwart team of guestbloggers, Ann Althouse, Radley Balko, Stewart Baker, Ed Driscoll, Megan McArdle, Mark Tapscott, and Michael Totten. Frankly, the blog looks more interesting when I’m away than when I’m around! But, regardless, I’m back now, tanned, refreshed, and ready to surf and blog again. It’s amazing, though, how much more relaxed I am when I’m not being exposed to the latest outrage on the Internet . . . .

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR MCCAIN WE’D HAVE A SECRETIVE ADMINISTRATION THAT STONEWALLED CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRIES IN THE NAME OF “NATIONAL SECURITY.” And they were right! “The Obama administration has failed to keep congressional intelligence officials in the loop on the investigation into the botched Times Square bombing, as required by law, the top Democrat and Republican on the Senate intelligence committee charged in a letter this week.”

IT’S REALLY EASY IF YOU TRY: Andrew Klavan proffers us to “Imagine There’s No Border:”

BRING BACK DDT (CONT’D): Dengue Fever Hits Key West.

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR MCCAIN, we’d have a President who was in bed with big oil. And they were right! Palin accuses Obama of being in bed with big oil. “Sarah Palin accused US President Barack Obama on Sunday of leading a lax response to the Gulf of Mexico spill because he is too close to the big oil companies. The former vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor, who champions off-shore drilling, criticized the media for not drawing the link between Obama and big oil and said if this spill had happened under former Republican president George W. Bush the scrutiny would have been far tougher.” Undoubtedly.

HEADLINES NO LONGER NEEDED: U.S. drops criminal probe of AIG executives.

MICKEY KAUS: “I’ll pay for a week’s worth of Andrew Sullivan’s testosterone injections if he can find a single blog post where I ‘assumed [Gary] Condit’s guilt.'”

SOURCES OF TENSION between the U.S. and China.

Guest-blogging here for Glenn just may have been the neatest blogospheric thing I’ve gotten to do since way back in the cyber-Jurassic Period (you know, 2004 and thereabouts). I hope you folks enjoyed it as much as I did. A final link-note: If you are thinking about buying a crossover, my review of Hyundai’s excellent Santa Fe might well be worth a read, as it is a solid value.

THE NEWSPEAK DICTIONARY GOES GALLIC: Theodore Dalrymple hands out the first Brezhnev Prize for the most obfuscating European politician ever.

And for news of transatlantic obfuscations,  following the embarrassment of having recommended Spain’s failed environmental programs as his model, President Obama has switched to Denmark as his prototype “green” nation. Good choice? Not so fast, Christopher Horner writes, asking, “Best out of five?”

RELATED: At Reason TV, “Sweden’s March Towards Capitalism.”

Hopefully, someday America will begin a similar journey as well.

RECURSION OF IRONY: As the late Ron Silver told Jeremy Iron’s character in Reversal of Fortune, “One thing, Claus. Legally, this was an important victory. Morally — you’re on your own.”

RELATED: Al and the Volcano.