Pennsylvania Congressman John Murtha (D) is dead.

Washington Post has more here.

As special election should be interesting:

You just gotta love the predictability of the MSM. This Washington Post story says it all; it's no secret that President Obama's poll numbers are tanking. His overall approval rating is dropping and of course his individual numbers per issue have been taking a nose dive.

But leave it up to the Post to throw a cog in the wheel, and try to say what really is happening isn't really happening at all.

Hillary Clinton confirmed a day or two ago that the Obama administration will no longer refer to the "war on terror." That isn't necessarily a bad thing; most conservatives were never very happy with that formula (although I, for one, wasn't able to come up with a better one). The problem is that this looks like one more instance of the Obama administration putting too much emphasis on words rather than deeds, and being prone to wishful thinking--i.e., if we stop talking about the terrorist threat, maybe it will go away.