ANOTHER PLANTED QUESTION at a townhall meeting.

JOHN HINDERAKER: "The Democrats' domestic policies are an incoherent jumble: they want lower gasoline and heating oil prices, but they block the very things, oil drilling and the construction of new refineries, that would actually reduce them. At the same time, for reasons of 'climate change,' they want less consumption of oil and gas, which implies higher, not lower, prices." I think they want higher prices, but without taking responsibility for that outcome. In which case there's nothing incoherent about the approach at all.

WILL BLACK VOTERS STAY HOME if Obama loses nomination?

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE DIRTY GUV'NAHS, who won Best of Knoxville this week. They'll be opening for Robert Earl Keen, who I know from way back in the Ella Guru's days, at Sundown in the City at the end of the month.

ON MAY DAY, REMEMBERING the victims of communism.

WHY A CURVEBALL curves.

BAD NEWS FOR POLITICAL CONSULTANTS: Robocalls, Direct Mail Don't Work.

PEW POLL: Obama's Image Slips, His Lead Over Clinton Disappears.

There's also this bad news: "Public Support for Free Trade Declines."

Meanwhile, Indiana Poll Shows Clinton With Big Lead Over Obama.

DONATIONS: I don't mention the tipjar much -- I prefer to encourage donations to folks like Michael Totten or Michael Yon, or embattled Canadian bloggers -- but I just checked the balance and for some reason a lot of people have donated. So I used the money to order a new blogging tool that I'll review. Everyone wins!

ENDOWMENT DEBATE seeps into the states:

With college endowments a favorite target for politicians in Washington, and many states struggling to find enough tax revenue to make ends meet, it’s almost a surprise that it took state legislators this long to start casting their eyes on colleges’ funds. But it’s perhaps not a shock that if the issue were to emerge anywhere, it would be in Massachusetts, home to the university (Harvard) whose nearly $34.6 billion endowment has become the poster child for higher education wealth. . . .

“Why do we want to tax the poor all the time, but we let off the hook the richest of the rich?” said State Rep. Angelo Scaccia, a Democrat, said during the course of Monday’s debate, according to the Metrowest Daily News. “We’re not going to break them,” he added of colleges’ endowment funds. “We just want a little.”

From each according to his ability. . . .

JUST SAW HILLARY ON O'REILLY talking about Iraq. She was better than Obama, but I still think she was wrong, and I encourage her and her advisers to watch this excellent video from Austin Bay on the consequences of a premature withdrawal from iraq.

UPDATE: Related criticism from Abe Greenwald.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Okay, this is weird. Hillary is gone, and O'Reilly is talking about D.C. Madam Deborah Palfrey and seems to suggest that her suicide was "karma" for threatening to expose her clients: "This woman was threatening a lot of people's lives. . . . If you're doing something wrong, you get caught, you pay the price, you shut up." Omerta lives.

MORE: Further comments on Hillary, and video, at Gateway Pundit.

DUDE, WHERE'S MY RECESSION? (CONT'D) I don't think it's online anywhere, but I just got my latest Aviation Week and here's a report that suggests things aren't too slow:

G650 Customers Wait in Line

Gulfstream's planned output of 83 G650 business jets in the first 2.5 years of production is oversubscribed by a factor of six to seven, says parent company General Dynamics. Gulfstream began accepting $500,000 refundable deposits on the new $58.5 million ultra-long-range jet on April 15, signing time-stamped letters of intent with customers that it is now working through to convert to orders.

Seems like this is one of the first places a business could cut back. Am I wrong?

UPDATE: Maybe. A reader emails:

The G-650 is an awesome airplane, and it fits a market niche that currently has no competition. In re:

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