ADDRESSING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: The Declining Hotness of Flight Attendants.

MAX FISHER: Why Is Obama Sending Troops Against The Lord’s Resistance Army? “It’s possible that there’s some immediate U.S. interest at stake we can’t obviously see.”

HEY, THAT’S WHAT I SAID YESTERDAY: Things Could Actually Get A Lot Worse. “When systematic policy error results in low demand, it’s as likely that the error will be sustained or compounded as it is to be rectified. In such cases, every bottom is ephemeral, and there is no darkness that can’t grow darker still.” And it seems to me that we have a political class that is well-suited to systematic policy errors.

HOW TO DEAL WITH criticism on the Internet.

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FROM THE MULTICULTURALISM DEPT.: Islamic sex guide says wives meet only 10% of husbands’ desires. “Just months after telling its members to serve their husbands better than prostitutes, prompting widespread criticism, the Obedient Wives Club of Malaysia has stirred further controversy by publishing a guide to Islamic sex. The 115-page pocket-sized book, which will outrage many Muslims and non-Muslims, says a Muslim man can have sex with all of his wives at the same time. . . . In its foreword the book says studies showed women only gave their husbands 10 per cent of what men desired of their wives’ bodies. It contains explicit sex details, including fondling of a breast, and one chapter deals with ‘how sex becomes worship’.”

YOU CAN’T READ this opinion. From the comments: “It has to be the birth certificate.” Heh.

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ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Why Are Most of the Atlantic Cover Stories Written By Women About Marriage and Babies?

BYRON YORK: GOP will move to repeal CLASS Act.

Republicans on Capitol Hill are having an I-told-you-so moment after the Obama administration admitted late Friday that the CLASS Act, a major component of Obamacare, is unworkable.

CLASS, which stood for Community Living Assistance Services and Supports, was a pet project of the late Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy. It was supposed to help Americans pay the cost of long-term care. During the health care debate in 2009 and 2010, Democrats claimed that the program would not only pay for itself but would actually reduce the federal budget deficit. At the time Obamacare passed, Democrats claimed the law overall would cut the deficit by $140 billion over the next ten years; about $70 billion of that was supposed to come from the CLASS Act.

But even then, lawmakers of both parties knew that CLASS was unworkable. Democrats structured the program to collect premiums for years before beginning to pay out benefits — thus, it appeared to reduce the deficit when it would in fact greatly increase the deficit once it began making payments.

If they’re talking about prosecuting Wall Street people, why shouldn’t these members of Congress face jail?

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Obama’s Scapegoat Strategy. “What do you do if you can’t run on your record — on 9 percent unemployment, stagnant growth and ruinous deficits as far as the eye can see? How to run when you are asked whether Americans are better off than they were four years ago and you are compelled to answer no? Play the outsider. Declare yourself the underdog. Denounce Washington as if the electorate hasn’t noticed that you’ve been in charge of it for nearly three years. But above all: Find villains. . . . It’s crude. It’s Manichaean. And the left loves it. As a matter of math and logic, however, it’s ridiculous.”

He’ll be going after “hoarders and wreckers” next.

PRESIDENT STONEWALL: Here we go: White House refuses House GOP demand to turn over all internal documents related to Solyndra. Plus: “In case you’ve been wondering whether it’s legal for the government to agree to a loan restructuring that subordinates taxpayers’ interest to that of some private creditor, good news: Treasury’s been wondering that too.”

BRAD KOZAK: ATF Death Watch 104: Timelines and Truthiness. “The first thing to know when you’ve dug yourself into a deep hole is to stop digging. My father wasn’t the first to say these words, but he used to say them to me. A lot. And it’s good advice. It seems though, that every time Eric Holder opens his mouth, he’s so busy sticking his foot in it, that he can’t win for losin.’ Case in point, that whole timeline thing.”

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LEADING CUBAN DISSIDENT Laura Pollan Has Died.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Infographic: “The Student Loan Racket.”

MEMBERS OF THE PROVIDER CLASS: We Are The 53%.

SOME HALLOWEEN COSTUMES you might want to avoid. Stick with the tried-and-true traditional costumes, like Slutty Nurse, Slutty Cop, Slutty Teacher, Slutty Astronaut, etc. . .

INSTAVISION: Censorship in the Ivory Tower: Colleges and Universities are Killing Free Speech. I talk with Greg Lukianoff of FIRE, with a special cameo appearance by Nathan Fillion. (Bumped).

RICHARD MINITER EXPLAINS why Barack Obama is right, and I am wrong — along with David Ignatius and Ron Paul. Well, they told me if I voted for John McCain, we’d get a president so murderous toward foreigners that in the end even I’d be complaining. And they were right!

MORE BUDGETARY UNDERPERFORMANCE: Tanning tax revenue falls short of estimates. “The IRS got red-faced trying to collect the new tanning tax, burning a hole in estimates on how much the levy would bring in to federal coffers, a new report said Thursday.”

HERMAN CAIN’S 999 PLAN: Pre-tested In SimCity. “Long before Cain was running for president and getting attention for his 999 plan, the residents of SimCity 4 — which was released in 2003 — were living under a system where the default tax rate was 9 percent for commercial taxes, 9 percent for industrial taxes and 9 percent for residential taxes. (That is, of course, if you didn’t use the cheat codes to get unlimited money and avoid taxes altogether.)”

What’s the code? “Kaiser?” “Immelt?”

UPDATE: Reader John Miller writes: “Would you rather have something gamed for eight years in SimCity, or scored in a week by the CBO?”

SEXISM AT MSNBC. If a tree makes a sexist remark in a forest and no one hears it . . .

BLUE ORIGIN: What Is Jeff Bezos Building Out There. “Blue Origin, the aerospace company led by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, is the most secretive of the big private space companies. But through accident reports, patent applications, and the trickle of information from the company itself, we can start to get a picture of just what the heck Bezos is building.”

CHEVROLET-DEALER CONGRESSMAN: There Is No Market For The Volt.

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