*Pelosi’s Challenge: Hold the Line, by Patrick O’Connor.

*Unprecedented, by Michael G. Franc.  This is a great rundown of when, and how, reconciliation has been used in the past.

*For Obama and Pelosi, Health Care is Ego Trip, by Byron York.

*The Democrats on Reconciliation, by Jeffrey H. Anderson.

“You know, the Founders designed this system, as frustrating [as] it is, to make sure that there’s a broad consensus before the country moves forward. . . . And what we have now is a president who . . . [h]asn’t gotten his way. And that is now prompting, you know, a change in the Senate rules that really I think would change the character of the Senate forever. . . . And what I worry about would be you essentially have still two chambers — the House and the Senate — but you have simply majoritarian absolute power on either side, and that’s just not what the founders intended” (Sen. Barack Obama, Ill., remarks at the National Press Club, 4/26/05).”

Not that such hypocrisy will stop them, mind you.

*Alice In HealthCare, by Thomas Sowell.

*Your Daily Dose of “Holy Shit!

You progressives out there still want to double-down on unfunded entitlement programs?

*Hillary Clinton Slaps Britain in the Face Over Falklands, by Nile Gardiner.

“Clinton has demonstrated, not the first time, strikingly poor judgment as Secretary of State. While currying favour with a third rate kleptocracy in Latin America, she is alienating America’s most loyal and valuable friend at a critically important time. She also underestimates the resolve of the British people, who will never negotiate the future of the Falkland Islands.”

*Another American Media Failure, by Ed Morrissey.

“Curiously, the American media has been almost entirely AWOL on the collapse of the IPCC and anthropogenic global-warming hysteria as its intelligence has been proven not just wrong, as the WMD intel from multiple Western nations was in Iraq, but blatantly fraudulent.”

RELATED: A Blizzard of Lies From Al Gore, at IBD.