As I expected, the pacifist argument against allowing ROTC to return to the nation's elite college campuses by Colman McCarthy that appeared in The Washington Post yesterday has been the subject of much exasperation and derision (justifiably so, of course). Jonah Goldberg takes some shots, and Victor Davis Hanson exposes the many flaws in the argument.

Nile Gardiner says that President Obama had a very bad year in 2010, and it may very well get worse for him in 2011.

New York City sanitation workers targeted specific neighborhoods in their work slowdown scheme that resulted in miles of city streets remaining unplowed long after the end of the recent snowstorm. There will be a great deal of commentary, vitriolic or not, generated by this controversy. In the end, and I hate to be pessimistic about it but I must, not much will come of all of this. The voters in NYC will continue to elect Democrats (or wishy washy Republicans) to represent them. Those Democrats are beholden to public employee unions. Therefore, while a manager or two might have to play the role of scapegoat, the essential political dynamic will remain the same.

Tea Party darling Michelle Bachman is a Neo-con, according to Bill Kristol. He defines a Neo-con as a former liberal mugged by reality into becoming a conservative.