Miscellany

Today's headlines summed up in one word: stagflation.

Couple random tidbits...
Hamas has taken over Fatah, but they are calling it a "merger of equals" the same way they do in the corporate world as a sop to the egos of the acquired. War is coming, as predicted here and by others many times.

Kevin Durant just rocks.

India, suddenly looks like it ain't our BFF no more. It won't consider buying our fighter planes and our ambassador there just resigned (to spend more time with his family... yeah). Wait, didn't someone just go there to sure up ties???

Qaddafi shopping for beachfront property and a new, Latin-flavored nursing staff?

Even Obama partisans know that the bench is pretty thin, like I said moons ago. Just more Clintonite caretaking of the final two years so Obama can do the only thing he knows how to do - campaign.

UPDATE: Missed this one...economist John Cochrane takes to the WSJ Op-Ed pages to tell us that politics might not solve our problems before the "bond market" solves them for us, perhaps not so tenderly. Where have I heard that before?