82nd Airborne solider David Hickman was the 4474th American serviceman killed in Iraq. He should be the last.

Newt Gingrich last night declared that he would abolish the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

South Carolina governor Nikki Haley becomes the latest Tea Party darling to back Mitt Romney.

Congressional Republicans got a major concession as price for averting a government shutdown: saving the incandescent light bulb, at least now.

Ron Paul is surging in Iowa. He’s in 3rd place in the national polls and has been for most of the race. He’s not Mitt Romney.

The constantly changing face of Superman, the iconic comic book superhero, over the 73 years since he debuted in Action Comics #1.

A shocking new polls shows that most Americans would like to receive Social Security and not pay for it.

With Gingrich surging in the polls, the pundit class has gotten out the long knives.

The former Speaker has the biggest lead of any candidate thus far in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

America’s greatest statesmen fear America’s political paralysis endangers our ability to lead the world.

Air Force personnel charged with transporting the bodies of American soldiers killed in action apparently finds dead American warriors funny.

Fareed Zakaria thinks we’re wasting too much time playing Angry Birds.

Savage has offered Gingrich one million dollars to drop out of the race and Beck has said that he’d vote for Ron Paul as a third party candidate rather than supporting the former Speaker.

Christiane Amanpour, who’s losing audience share for ABC’s “This Week” Sunday show, may be on her way back to CNN.

Paul Krugman’s latest column, “Depression and Democracy,” is simply bizarre.

The Establishment opposition to the current frontrunner has little to do with his policy ideas.

No, some mythical candidate will not swoop in and save the day for the Republican Party.

OTB is available on Google Currents.

We held Kim’s services this morning. These were my prepared remarks.

My wife, Kimberly Webb Joyner, died this morning in her sleep from unknown causes. She was 41.

Feeling abandoned by the Republican Party, former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson is weighing a Libertarian Party bid for president.

A stark account of how American journalism has changed over the last half century.

Life, it turns out, isn’t fair.

A progressive columnist has been outed as having sympathies for the Democratic Party.

Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” for 2011 is much different than their “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” for 2003.

Despite our rather obvious problems, we’re in great shape compared to the rest of the developed world and, especially, to even our fairly recent ancestors.

“The debt crisis is burrowing ever deeper, like a worm, and is now reaching Germany.”

We’re hearing the howls of a wounded bear.

Canada’s National Post have illustrated how the Anyone But Romney race has gone to date:

I liveblogged and tweeted my instant, mostly snarky, reaction to the CNN foreign policy debate. Here are some more fully formed thoughts.

I’ll be liveblogging tonight’s Republican national security debate over at RealClearWorld along with a solid team of foreign policy analyst

A Democrat sees doom and gloom as far as the eye can see.

Mitt Romney’s first television ad is built around a Barack Obama quote that has been cropped so that he’s saying the opposite of what he actually said.

Rick Perry wants a no-fly zone in Syria to prevent ground forces from harming civilians.

The NYPD is wantonly violating the 1st Amendment.

Are Republicans mostly to blame for the supercommittee failure?

Stephen Green explains how Washington cuts the deficit in a mere eight steps.

George Will’s disdain for Mitt Romney pales in comparison of his disgust at Newt Gingrich.

Greg Halman, an outfielder for the Seattle Mariners baseball team, was stabbed to death in his native Holland. His brother is the chief suspect.

“Democratic” pollsters Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen argue that President Obama should decline to run for re-election.

Why we shouldn’t be surprised that police are using tools of violence against protestors.

Thomas Ricks posts several recommendations for fixing the Army. Most of them are really, really stupid.