WHAT IT’S LIKE to live with the Nissan Leaf. “Speaking of charging: We have just now received our first PG&E bill and it looks like the Leaf is responsible for between $90-110 of this past month’s electrical bill. Given that we have covered approximately 1,400 miles in that time, it is fair to say that our operating cost on the car is somewhere in the neighborhood of $0.07/mile. So, at $4.50/gallon, that gives us an equivalency of around 64 mpg. This is not quite the 99 mpg estimated on the EPA sticker, but not bad so far either.”

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED REPUBLICAN, we’d have a President who killed people around the world and got praised by Dick Cheney. And they were right! “‘I mean, it’s not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden,’ Cheney said.”

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WALTER RUSSELL MEAD ON OSAMA: Bad Man Down.

President Obama has been able to announce the news that Americans have longed to hear for the last ten years: Osama bin Laden is dead, his corpse flung into the sea.

Better, he is dead at America’s hands.

Better yet, he died a beaten man. His bid for the leadership of global Islam had failed, and Osama lived long enough to see other movements and other ideas shoulder his perverted synthesis aside. Osama was yesterday’s man, and he knew it.

And he knew we got him at the end, too. Plus this:

Above all, this is good for the United States. Presidents Bush and Obama have not gotten everything right since 9/11, but on this matter they both did pretty well. The United States was relentless and determined in hunting him down, pursuing tens of thousands of leads all over the world. We left no doubt in anyone’s mind that getting Osama Bin Laden was a priority, but we did a pretty reasonable job (except when demagogic politicians were out on the stumps) of keeping our eyes open and our mouths shut.

Indeed.

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ABC NEWS: Source: US Government Believes Pakistan Compound was Built Specifically for Bin Laden. “That this compound was constructed in the neighborhood of former Pakistani military officials and a local military academy is of course calling into question the participation of the local – if not national – government.”

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REASON TV: Bollywood vs. Bin Laden: Why radical Islam fears pop culture.

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Plus, more on the Canadian elections. “Harper’s winning campaign was centered on taxes. . . now that he’s won the tax cuts will proceed.”

THE HILL: Pakistan faces questions on Osama bin Laden’s conspicuous hideout. “Washington placed Pakistani officials in the rhetorical crosshairs Monday, questioning how they could be ignorant of Osama bin Laden’s hiding place just miles from Islamabad.”

HMM: Politico: White House Quietly Changing Story On Bin Laden: “The White House backed away Monday evening from key details in its narrative about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, including claims by senior U.S. officials that the Al Qaeda leader had a weapon and may have fired it during a gun battle with U.S. forces. . . . In another discrepancy, Brennan said during his on-the-record briefing that bin Laden’s son Khalid was killed in the attack. However, the official White House transcript had the counterterrorism adviser saying it was another son, Hamza, who perished in the raid.” Fog of war and all that, I suppose.

LIBYA: We’re Fighting A War, But We Really Don’t Want To Hurt Anyone, And If We Do, We Are So Sorry.

WAPO: Congress Agrees On Bin Laden Action But Not Much Else.

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NEVER ONE TO UNDERDO THINGS: Glenn Beck celebrates bin Laden killing with cookies, confetti and a marching band.

On the other hand, Rush Limbaugh “underdripped.”