Current Affairs

Wow, who could have seen this one coming? Israel cuts a deal to release 1,027 Palestinians in exchange for one captured Israeli soldier. And then:

Cool:

The way the Supreme Court has been going lately, this will probably be another 4-4 vote with Anthony Kennedy casting the tie-breaker. But it really deserves to be 9-0 in favor of lying liar Xaviar Alvarez:

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Supreme Court says it will decide whether a federal law making it a crime to lie about being awarded a military medal or decoration violated free-speech rights.

Well, guess we won't be hearing her sing the Monday night football song:

Susan Sarandon dropped a zinger or two when she appeared at the Bay Street Theatre Saturday for an interview with fellow actor Bob Balaban. The outspokenly political actress talked about Occupy Wall Street, recalled her run-ins with the NYPD over the Amadou Diallo case and called the current pope a "Nazi."

Always classy.

Aw, c'mon, Rick, a big, tough old boy like you, used to the down-and-dirty world of Texas politics, is feeling overwhelmed by a little national exposure?

Texas Gov. Rick Perry says he won't dispute his wife's assertion he's been "brutalized and beaten up and chewed up" in the presidential campaign.

This is an interesting point of view:

I'm not sure I can ever get over Romneycare, at least unless he explains it a lot better than he has. Just take a gander at this clip, showing Mitt heaping praise on Ted Kennedy as one of the "parents" of Massachusetts' universal health care efforts:

This Ted Kennedy lovefest footage from the 2006 bill-signing ceremony for the health care law is probably not what Romney wants GOP primary voters to have in mind when they enter a polling place or caucus meeting.

John Malone, like Ted Turner a cowboy-hat-wearing cable TV pioneer, has vaulted past Turner's 2 million acres to become America's biggest landowner with 2.2 million acres. He says real estate "is a pretty decent hedge on the devaluation of currency" and that now is the time to buy land "because of low borrowing costs and land prices."

I didn't think it would take this long for the keepers of the faith to decide that Herman Cain must be evil because his tax plan is nothing but a well-disguised way to help those filthy rich people:

Herman Cain has a plan to radically reform the nation's tax system and make things a lot simpler for taxpayers.

I've always suspected optimists were delusional and dangerous. Now the evidence:

you are always seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, be warned -- it could be an oncoming train.