Hey, y’all :)
Been a little busy this afternoon and evening – the evening with starting on the Christmas decor both inside and outside of the house. Here are a few pictures I took of the way the lights outside look, and how my Christmas tree looks.
Getting it backwards: the legislative veto
At Hot Air, Ed Morrissey writes about the efforts of the Republican minority in the Senate to defeat the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to gain via regulation what the environmental left couldn’t achieve via legislation: a cap-and-trade system and other onerous, economy killing “environmental” regulations. Their strategy involves the use of a little known procedure created in the 90s, called the Congressional Review Act. Ed quotes from a Politico article; see if you can spot the problem:
We have all the best toys, Infantry edition
For thousands of years, soldiers have known that taking cover is a good idea: the enemy might not see you or, at the very least, the cover would make you harder to hurt. Those have been the rules since before the first cities had been built.
Senate GOP to Democrats: Stop playing games during the lame-duck session
With the recent swearing in of Illinois Republican Senator Mark Kirk, the GOP now has 42 Senators – and all 42 are flexing their muscles in giving Senate Democrats an ultimatum on extending the Bush tax cuts before the end of the year: