Most of our Tuesday morning links are here, but I have a few more to add:
This is your government on drugs
Coldest October in 115 years
Obama Skips Anniversary of Fall of Berlin Wall, Sends a Video & Talks About Himself. Related, also at Gateway: Wash U Shuts Down Freedom Memorial on 20 Year Anniversary of End of Communism- It Was Too Offensive (Video)
Offensive to whom?
Re Hasan, the NYT says it:
The officials said the communications did not alter the prevailing theory that Major Hasan acted by himself, lashing out as a result of combination of factors, including his outspoken opposition to American policy in Iraq and Afghanistan and his deepening religious fervor as a Muslim.
I have never seen Glenn Beck, but he sure can sell books:
“Simon & Schuster, believes that Beck has become the only author in history to ever have #1 New York Times bestsellers debut on these four different lists: hardcover fiction (The Christmas Sweater), hardcover nonfiction (Arguing with Idiots and An Inconvenient Book), nonfiction paperback (Glenn Beck’s Common Sense), and now with The Christmas Sweater: A Picture Book, children’s picture books.”
This is the way it is, via Barnes at Weekly Standard:
If you don't like what we're offering, we'll give you more of it. Far more Americans oppose Obamacare than support it. Yet Democratic representative Gerald Connolly of Virginia said he "concluded" from last week's election that "we've got to pass health care .??.??. [and] give Democrats something to be excited about." It's "a matter of tangibles being delivered," said Democratic representative Jan Schakowsky of Illinois.
"Tangibles." That captures it, doesn't it? Freedom is not a "tangible," is it?
