CLIMATEGATE: The World’s Biggest Story, Everywhere But Here.

UPDATE: “About what?”

PJTV: A Government That Knows Its Place: Bill Whittle Talks With Eric Cantor.

BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMISTRY: Drug could prolong men’s sexual staying power.

COMPARING THE UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS with Administration promises.

LOOKING AT THE HAITI FLIGHT LOGS: “Church of Scientology ministers landed, as did AP reporters, CNN’s Anderson Cooper and diapers from Canada. But a French portable hospital and planeloads of doctors with medical supplies were diverted to the Dominican Republic.” So, Anderson Cooper in ahead of doctors? That’s helpful.

UPDATE: Chuck Simmins emails:

I can’t let the implications pass, Glenn.

Port-au-Prince airport has one runway and very limited ramp space. At the time that the Air force Special Operations people landed, it had two tow bars and two fuel trucks with planes parked in any open space.

The Air Force set up a landing pattern based on priorities created by the government of Haiti. Those priorities also were heavily dependent on the aircraft operator having followed procedure and registered, the ability of the airport to unload the aircraft in a timely manner and the room available at the airport.

Planes arrived without having asked for clearance. Planes arrived with loads that would take six or more hours to unload. Planes arrived when there was no room on the ground for them. Planes arrived without fuel to take off. Every single one of these problems were handled by the Air Force and the Haitians that they were working with.

One aircraft that landed the first day took six hours to fuel with the primitive facilities the airport had. The Air Force squeezed planes in for landings where they had bare feet on either wingtip.

According to the Air Force, the field hospital arrived without clearance and unloading it would have taken the airport out of service for hours.

http://northshorejournal.org/out-of-the-night-sky-air-force-secures-port-au-prince-airport

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2634785/kentucky_national_guard_opens_haiti.html

It is very easy for the media to nitpick, especially since it concerns our military. Yet, there was not one NGO, not one other nation or international agency, capable of the response given by the United States military to the people of Haiti in their time of need.

Tell it to Anderson Cooper. . . .

SUPPORTING STEVE JOBS? California Senate Passes Amazon tax. What’s next? Washington State putting an excise tax on iPods?

Well, no. The email I got suggested that Steve Jobs is smiling about this, and he probably is, but California has been grabbing at this revenue for a while. I realize that some states have tried to come up with clever theories to get around it, but I still think that this is unconstitutional under the Quill case. (Full disclosure: I consulted for the winning side in Quill.) But since California citizens are liable for use tax, why not try to force Amazon to disclose their purchases instead of trying to force Amazon to collect the tax itself? I’m guessing that California politicos don’t want the backlash from mailing a new tax bill to millions of voters in an election year. Which suggests a possible response from Amazon, perhaps . . .

But, really, I think the Internet sales-tax issue is one that should be resolved, if at all, by Congress, which clearly has the power to do so.

UPDATE: Reportedly, Rhode Island’s “Amazon Tax” has killed jobs but produced zero revenue. I wonder how much the politicians care. It seems as much a control thing as a revenue issue, really. They just can’t stand the thought that people aren’t paying tribute.

DAVID BELLAVIA ON IRAQ: Our Mission Is Finally Accomplished . . . Does Anyone Care? “What we achieved in the face of an implacable enemy, overcoming many in our own government willfully ignorant of our struggle, is what I believe to be the defining moment of my generation. The veteran today is the embodiment of what it means to be an American. Even when our valor was used for political sport, we continued to serve quietly. This is truly without precedent.”

SALMAN RUSHDIE on Amnesty International.

IN THE MAIL: From Travis Taylor, The Science Behind The Secret: Decoding The Laws of Attraction.

PJTV: Alexis Garcia interviews Andrea Tantaros at CPAC.

GLENN BECK’S MESSAGE TO THE GOP AT CPAC: “It’s not enough to not suck as much as the other side.”

ER, NO YOU DIDN’T: “Yesterday, I also met Professor Glenn Reynolds in the XPAC Lounge.” I didn’t go to CPAC this year. Do I have an impersonator?

UPDATE: Hey, please don’t be mean to her. It’s not her fault that somebody pretended to be me. I apologize for the mean people who apparently followed my link, as it wasn’t my intention to cast any blame here, except on whoever was impersonating me. I just thought I should note that someone apparently was. And Adrienne, I’d be happy to meet you in person sometime when it’s really me!

ANOTHER UPDATE: Robert Racansky emails: “Maybe it was you, from the future. Or a robot replica, like an Instanator infiltration unit.” Well, if future-me is hanging around out there I could use some advice on where to put this year’s 401k money . . . Also, Powerball numbers.

PSYCHOLOGY: Diagnosing Gollum.

CHARLIE COOK: Health Care Is Obama’s Iraq.

TIM CAVANAUGH ON BIOLOGICAL TRANSHUMANISM: Wake me up when men get pregnant. “Unlike airy notions of frozen brains or cyborg implants, biological enhancement has thousands of years of history behind it, in the form of agricultural hybridization and animal husbandry.”

Cyborg implants are hardly an “airy notion.” Heck, I’m already married to a cyborg.

MARK FRAUENFELDER UNVEILS THE JACKET DESIGN for his new book, Made By Hand: Searching For Meaning In A Throwaway World. I like the cigar-box guitars.

ANDREW BREITBART punches back twice as hard.

“SHODDY PARTISANSHIP” AND A CALL FOR A LEAK INVESTIGATION at the Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility.

CREDIT CARD NEWS: “A new era in the vexed relationships between colleges, credit cards and students begins Monday, when most of the new provisions of the Credit CARD Act of 2009 take effect. The law provides new protections to students and imposes new requirements on colleges and alumni groups that offer credit cards.”

UPDATE: From the comments: “Why is it OK for students to have thousands of dollars of debt from college, but it is not OK for it to be credit card debt? I guess it is OK for the university system in this country to rape you.”

YOUNG VOTERS WANT SPIRITUALITY, BUT NOT NECESSARILY RELIGION. Well, that’s because religion often tells you to do things you don’t want to do, or to refrain from doing things you want to do, while spirituality is usually more . . . flexible.

WELL, IT’S A LIBERTARIAN YEAR: Ron Paul wins CPAC straw poll.

ARE DOLPHINS INTELLIGENT ENOUGH TO DESERVE BETTER TREATMENT? Or do humans just want them to be?

PJTV: Lots of CPAC coverage from Dana Loesch and Bill Whittle.

AUTOBLOG: “There have been very few cars like the 2010 Jaguar XF Supercharged, and that’s a shame.”

AT AMAZON, Top Deals In Electronics.