Before Medal of Honor, beer with Obama

Ex-Marine Dakota Meyer to be honored for saving 36 lives during Afghan ambush  Meyer: Battle was "worst day of my life"

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Rick Santorum Proposes Olds Die Off Sooner To Save Social Security

Who is the biggest threat to the Social Security benefits system alive today? Rick Santorum, he knows what’s what, he’ll tell you. He held a policy meeting with his secret “panel of advisers” (the rows of fetus jars stacked in his basement) and he’s got this brain buster to share: “We can’t afford the benefit [...]

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The Fix: Palin: The GOP's Pelosi?

Sarah Palin's unfavorable rating has spiked to a new high, adding further fuel to the argument that her presidential campaign may be doomed before it begins.

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Commerce Secretary Locke nominated for China ambassador post

President Obama on Wednesday officially nominated Commerce Secretary Gary Locke as the next U.S. ambassador to China, continuing a reshuffling of top administration officials over the past several months.

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Obama's Soul Mate Down Under May Go Down

William Pesek, Bloomberg
It’s as predictable as political leadership gets: When things go awry at home, escape overseas for a while, grip and grin with a foreign head of state and change the subject.Barack Obama may have this tried-and-true strategy in mind as he plans to visit Australia, which is about as far as a U.S. president can get from the rancor in Washington. Yet as he meets with Prime Minister Julia Gillard in November, it will be hard not to wonder about the weak leadership imperiling not only their economies, but also the world at large.

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Midday open thread

• Today's comic from Scott Bateman: Actual Audio: Rick Perry vs Social Security.
• NY-09, NV-02: We'll be liveblogging the results for the two House special elections in New York and Nevada tonight. Polls close at 9 PM ET in New York and 10 PM ET in Nevada.
• The Department of Homeland Security has apparently realized kids probably aren't terrorists:
  

  Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the government will be rolling out a different airport pat-down policy for children under 12 in the coming months, and these children will no longer have to take off their shoes to be screened.
  Napolitano says the traveling public can expect to see some of these changes in the coming months.

  Some travelers and privacy advocates have complained that children, who don't appear to pose terror threats, are subject to intimate pat-downs that involve Transportation Security Administration screeners touching private areas.

  Children under 12 will also be spared the hassle of taking off their shoes as they go through check point security, Napolitano said.

• The future is going to suck.
• Um ... what?
  

  The police department in Santa Cruz, California, has begun an experiment that uses a mathematical algorithm to predict when and where certain crimes will be committed, and puts police on the scene before they happen.

  So far police have arrested five people using this technique of "predictive policing" and the rates of certain categories of crimes in the city have dropped significantly, perhaps as a result. The program has correctly predicted 40 percent of the crimes it was designed to monitor.

• Just a reminder: Rick Perry, the self-proclaimed pro-life fiscal conservative, has spent an awful lot of money killing people.
• And by the way, turns out Rick Perry was full of shit when he said he'd only taken $5,000 from Merck, the maker of the HPV vaccine that has gotten Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum so worked up. He's taken $30,000 directly, plus potentially tens of thousands more through the Republican Governors Association. The weird thing is this: why didn't he just say during the debate that just 0.1% of his campaign funds had come from Merck and leave it at that? Instead, he lies, adding to the speculation that where there's smoke there's fire.
• Big surprise:
  

  When it comes to her own potential presidential aspirations, however, Palin continues to be coy.

  ?I?m not going to let the media tell me or dictate when a drop-dead date should be,? Palin said.

  ?I still have that same old dopey, same old answer that I?m sure you guys are getting sick of hearing, and that is I?m still thinking about it, praying about it, contemplating, talking to my family. I?m sick of giving the same answer, believe me. I?m anxious to give an answer and get on with life one way or the other. But whichever direction life takes me, I?m going to continue to speak up for we the people and that tea Party movement and the mama grizzlies.?

  Shorter Palin: I'm too lazy to run for president, but I'm going to keep pretending I might, 'cause I still want you to pay attention to me.

• Windows 8 is coming.
• Very exciting news:
  

  A small pilot study has found preliminary evidence that squirting insulin deep into the nose where it travels to the brain might hold early Alzheimer?s disease at bay, researchers said on Monday.

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