Last night, President Barack Obama held his first prime time news conference, and among other things he insisted that the stimulus package needs to pass to avert catastrophe. I suspect not, but we will not be able to test the proposition that doing nothing might be the best thing, since the bill will pass in some form. Next up, a big bailout plan for the financial system.

Rich Lowry points out that the era of resisting the growth of government is over, which means that Socialism (although we won't call it that) is on the way here in America.

Meanwhile, the bad guys are still out there trying to kill us, and I would like to think that, eventually, President Obama and his people will realize that, as Andrew McCarthy writes, it is not the prisons that are the problem, it is the people who are in them that are the issue.

Speaking of prisons, a Federal court has ordered California to lower it's prison population. This is a move that is so unpopular, even Jerry Brown doesn't like it.

Islamic extremists are finding more energy in London, this time driven by the war in Gaza.

The Israelis are going to the polls today to elect a new government, and the last polling done before the voting began shows Netanyahu's Likud and Livni's Kadima neck-and-neck, with the new party headed by Avigdor Lieberman a wild card. It will end in a coalition government of some kind.

The steroid controversy snags another star, as Alex Rodriguez admits that he used steroids, as indicated by a failed drug test back in 2003. At some point you have to wonder, who wasn't using the stuff?