Gates will stay on at Defense; Jim Geraghty notices some gnashing of teeth on the left. Michael Yon writes that the Iraq war is over. Without missing a shot, a corporal tallies 20 kills, as 30 U.S. Marines defeat 250 insurgents in Afghanistan. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco blocked a major offshore drilling effort. Mitt Romney v. Jennifer Granholm on the auto bailouts. Peter Schiff, who predicted the recession, is a bear on the bailouts and Obama.
Why Obama spends so much time at the gym.
