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A LOOK AT THE ADMINISTRATION’S MORATORIUM ON DRILLING IN THE GULF: “When there is a conflict between jobs and public employee unions, or a conflict between jobs and the environmentalist lobby, jobs lose every time under this Administration. . . . How this President can claim that he’s interested in job-creation, or even job-maintenance, is simply beyond me.”

MEGAN MCARDLE: Why Won’t America Learn The Lessons Of Italy? “That doesn’t mean that we need aim for zero debt, or zero long-term obligations. But we should understand that every additional dollar we promise in the future is not simply one less dollar that future taxpayers get to spend on themselves–but also one more dollar of risk added to a rapidly growing mountain. More and more Americans found this out about their own personal finances the hard way. Unfortunately, this painfully acquired knowledge does not seem to have filtered through to our legislators.”

PROF. JACOBSON: Why is Chris Matthews portraying Obama as “The Other”?

CONFLICT OF INTEREST: Newspaper Guild among unions supporting #Occupy movement. “Indeed a look at their home page is filled with links to the OWS movement, as well as one to recall Governor Walker in Wisconsin, so don’t expect any impartial coverage of that story, either.”

WELL, ONE CAN HOPE: Super Committee flop a ‘career ender’ for John Kerry? On the other hand, he’s already survived association with one major disaster — his 2004 campaign.

I do like this quote from Larry Sabato, though: “All 12 of them could have been heroes. Instead they’re going to be the bums. That’s what happens when you take on a big challenge and utterly fail.”

UPDATE: Sen. Judd Gregg: Where In The World Is Obama? “The president was in Hawaii while the supercommittee hit stall speed. What is new about this? Very little. Throughout his term, President Obama has avoided leading on the issue of fiscal responsibility.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Brian Dunn emails: “The sad thing is that the super committee didn’t have a big challenge. Their charge to cut spending was miniscule compared to the amount of deficit spending that will take place over the same time period. This was supposed to be the first step to demonstrate we are serious about cutting spending. What a shock that they failed to do that.”

THE POVERTY OF “NEAR POVERTY:” Mickey Kaus not buying latest on “near poor” Americans. “So the NYT piece notes, in its lede graf, that within this ‘near poor’ category ‘many own homes.’ Some 20 percent of the ‘near poor,’ it turns out, own their homes mortgage-free. One reason they don’t earn much income may be because they don’t need it to pay the rent!”

WHAT’S WRONG, AND WHAT’S RIGHT about the New York Times’ piece on legal education.

AND THE WIND CRIES BANKRUPT: 14,000 abandoned wind turbines.

“TELL BARACK I’M BAROKE.”

#GREENFAIL: Dutch fall out of love with windmills. “Faced with the need to cut its budget deficit, the Dutch government says offshore wind power is too expensive and that it cannot afford to subsidize the entire cost of 18 cents per kilowatt hour — some 4.5 billion euros last year.”

GORDON CROVITZ: Are Tent Cities Free Speech?

MICHAEL WALSH: The debt committee’s inevitable fizzle. “The once-bitten, twice-shy Republicans demanded real cuts — not the sham accounting tricks that marked the August deal — while the class-warfare Democrats insisted on higher taxes on ‘the rich.’ Even GOP offers to accept some tax hikes in exchange for fundamental tax reform weren’t enough to sway the Democrats.”

LEE SIEGEL: Lessons From Occupy Harvard: “Liberal elites like you are strangling liberalism.”

CHANGE: Obama Admin Bans US Aircraft Maker, Favors Non-US Firm with Ties to Iran on Light Aircraft Project.

BUDGETS: Romney Blames Obama for Supercommittee Failure.

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