ABC News wonders why people don’t realize the economy is actually doing great. Somebody got a mirror for them?

Carson Palmer, nooooooo!

Jesse MacBeth now was caught trying to defraud the VA, which carries Federal charges and jail time. Excellent.

Cox & Forkum on the Iranian unrest.

Sam’s been at work too much.

Scientiists discovered that immersing plants in extremely high levels of CO2 makes them grow faster. I’m shocked, *shocked* by this development.

Texas raised the limit on the world’s most boring stretch of freeway (I-10 basically from mid-state to the New Mexico border) to 80 mph, which is freaking out the usual nanny-state suspects.

For a bit of a backgrounder on how lame the UK is now, they’re considering banning sharp knives now because murders with them have become an epidemic since they confiscated all the guns. You might imagine old Ted has some fun at their expense. (Link fixed!)

She started going off on Tony Snow, but he was more than capable of handling her.

UPDATE: The tastefully named Ian has video. Now that I’ve actually seen it, I have to note that Tony was really enjoying this, a lot more than it came off in the text transcript.

Mississippi (which is run by conservative Republicans) is back open for business despite actually taking more direct damage from Katrina. But you don’t hear that reported much.

This story turns out about how you’d expect – 5 guys with guns jump a Marine with a knife, the Marine wins. Neal Boortz was screaming bloody murder about it on the radio this morning because the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s headline was the rather more inflammatory “Marine kills pregnant robber”.

Two top al Queda biggies have been arrested in Iraq.

Nearly 1/2 of Americans now believe stuff like this, incidentally. Anyway, the latest: a group of shape-shifting Jewish space aliens (Mel Brooks, call your office!) are involved. Really. Because that makes way more sense than the “official” version where some turbaned tumblef**ks hijacked airplanes.

Also, I repeat my standard challenge to such theories: please produce any of the dead passengers in good working order. I’m sure Ted Olsen would love to see his wife alive.

Missed this yesterday, but here’s a short video of the one and only Nardo, looking for lizards.

John Hawkins has a laundry list of things that are wrong with the Senate’s immigration bill.

Mark Steyn does a job Americans won’t do.

Lileks also reads Da Vinci Code so nobody else ever has to.

Zed and Damon on proper tool usage.

Preisdent Bush signed a bill banning the disruption of funerals. Of course, the ACLU’s already vowed to fight it.

The IDF got 4 Pallies while they were setting up rockets. Note especially that an AP photographer was *watching them set them up*.

A fantastic piece from a Marine who was in Iraq. (Via the puppy blender).

Here’s a ton of great links.

Ben Stein on Memorial Day.

Chris Muir sets it up: Madonna vs. the Dixie Chicks. Sidebar: you know Madonna’s in trouble when she stages a mock crucifixion and even the reliably outraged William Donohue of the Catholic League yawns.

Hizballah in Lebanon (under control of the Iranians) fired rockets into Israel today. The IDF, naturally, bombed the camp the rockets were fired from. Guess how the MSM reported it? The LA Times’ headline was particularly deceitful, but they all suck.