The International House of Bacon

Thoughts on Heller and Davis coming later on, scheduled to post around noon.

* Auto sales in China up big. More reason to remember that drilling is a necessity - there’s no way developing nations will be able to afford implementing the alternatives in the same time frame we will be able to.

* FiveThirtyEight highlights a recent Rasmussen poll showing similar favorables amongst identified party voters, but higher unfavorables for Obama. Combine this with 20% of Clinton voters not yet behind Obama, and there is a fairly interesting argument to be made about Obama having the base problem, and not so much McCain.

* Of course, if Obama keeps shifting positions with the blowing of the wind, he might have bigger problems than his base. His campaign, last, year, noted the Heller case and said that “Obama believes the D.C. handgun law is constitutional.” Obama himself never corrected the record, and it remained consistent with Obama’s state senate questionnaire and his work with the Joyce Foundation and the Violence Policy Center. Yesterday, hours before the ruling was released, it was reported that Obama’s campaign was running from that, now stating that the “statement was obviously an inartful attempt to explain the Senator’s consistent position.” Yes, Obama’s position appears to have been consistent - consistently against the Constitution, and consistently wrong.

* Dear John McCain, please keep Bobby Jindal out of your administration. I know he’s the most exciting Republican to come around in a while, but no one on the right needs him.

* Apparently, Hugo Chavez’s election scare not too long ago has resulted in a change for him. Instead of running campaigns now, he’ll just remove opposition candidates from the ballots.

* Lost in the shuffle? Another missile defense test success. The military is 35 of 43 since 2001, and has succeeded in 29 of the last 30 since 2005, with this being a successful test where the controllers had no clue where the missile was going. So much for this sort of thing “never working.” Remember, Barack Obama considers missile defense unproven and plans to cut spending on it. Maybe he’s right that we don’t necessarily need a missile defense program, but to claim that it’s unproven seems dumber by the day.

* Finally, a list of Hollywood’s top 10 worst kissers.