Good news? I had a great Pastrami Burger tonight from a place called The Hat . Seriously: the pastrami itself is great, and I’ll probably go for the Pastrami Dip next time. Bad news? It was a busy evening and now I’m tired. The good news that wins out? Not much to cover tonight, so let’s go. In France it’s illegal to give away free maps . Yes, Google is reportedly having to pay €500,000 because a French cartographer didn’t like the competition. Insane. Reminds me of one of the times Rick Santorum made a point to stand up for big government: when he tried to get government out of the business of providing “free” taxpayer-funded competition to private weather services. Of course, Google’s free services are under fire in the US, too , so we can’t get too smug yet. The push for a sales tax compact...

Actor Ben Gazzara passed away on Friday of pancreatic cancer. He was 81. The New York born character actor had a career which spanned six decades on Broadway, film and TV. Gazzara was a member of the original Broadway cast of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and worked with directors ranging from Otto Preminger in Anatomy of a Murder to the Coen Brothers in The Big Lebowski. He also collaborated with John Cassavetes in the 1970s on a trio of films - Husbands, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie and Opening Night. Others still might remember Gazzara as the villain in the Patrick Swayze movie Road House. However, when I think of Ben Gazzara the first person that comes to mind is Yogi Berra. Gazzara played the Yankees legend in an Off-Broadway one man play called Nobody Don't Like Yogi. In...

In what is apparently completely unimportant news to just about everyone except NBC2 in Southwest Florida and Andrew Breitbart , numerous instances of illegal voting by non-citizens have been uncovered. Projecting the problems across the state and into the rest of the nation would seem to indicate that many thousands of people who are registered to vote should never have been allowed to register and are routinely casting ballots illegally. A Google News search on 'Florida vote fraud' (not in quotes) at Google News at 11:00 PM ET indicated that there was a grand total of six stories on this disturbing development. Immediately below the reference to the non-citizen voting news is a link to a Tampa Bay Times editorial posted two days ago which claimed that voter fraud is 'a nonexistent problem in this...

A primer of things to come: Imagine for a moment how Democrats would feel late on the night of Nov. 6 if news outlets began to call the race for Mr. Romney or another Republican. The comedown from four years earlier would be one of the starkest in American political history. The promise of Mr. [...]

Read this in FULL . Please. (Hat tip: Memeorandum ) I had planned on writing the epic rants of all epic rants tonight, which would have probably have included some uncharacteristic profanity on my part, but I've mellowed a bit as the night has gone on which is probably a good thing, and Daniel Foster's piece is pretty definitive. What I would add to what Foster wrote above is this: Point of clarification: The Komen Foundation is not pro-life and are arguably not pro-choice .  Steve Ertelt at Life News makes a good point about that here : FACT:  Komen is not a pro-life organization. When Komen announced its decision to change its policy to not funding organizations that are under formal investigation or that act as pass-through agencies rather...