More people are calling for some form of Olympic boycott against China. The latest events in Tibet serve as a reminder that China is an authoritarian country, now only nominally Communist, whose rulers will use whatever brutality is necessary to achieve their goals. Of course, it won't be the first time that the Olympic banner has flown in the capitol of a country with a brutal regime.

Thomas Sowell has these thoughts on Obama after the speech, in which he basically cays Obama is an empty suit.

Jeff Jacoby says it is a question of Wright and wrong.

Eugene Robinson called the speech a road map for a discussion on race, while Michael Gerson thought the speech fell short.

During oral arguments, it became apparent yesterday that a majority of justices seem to agree that the Second Amendment does protect an individual right to firearms ownership. If that is, in fact, the case, then the next question is to what extent the Federal government, and the States, can reasonably restrict that right, as they can reasonably restrict some other rights, like speech and assembly. The bar is set, justifiably, pretty high when reviewing restrictions of those other rights, so I would expect a rather high bar for this one, as well.

Noted science fiction writer Sir Arthur C. Clarke has died at age 90. So the last of the Big Three of science fiction (Clarke, Heinlein and Asimov) is gone.

Noted Michiganders are still upset that New Hampshire can break Democratic Party rules and get away with it, but they can't. As George Orwell once wrote, "Some Pigs are more equal than others".

John McCain is moving farther ahead in the Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll. Could the GOP really be this lucky? "Yes, we can!"