A first pass at my morning reading

It’s a morning of incredibly good stuff, as I troll through my usual list of daily reading material.  I’m sharing it with you in real time as I read it myself.

Start with J.R. Dunn’s look at the new world of warfare, one that takes place, not on battlefields but, instead, of computer servers — something that sounds innocuous but is, in fact, as potentially damaging to us as it was to the Iranians when they got stuxnetted.  (Possibly even more damaging to us, given our greater dependence on computers at every level of our lives.)

If you need some cheering up this holiday season, this ought to do it.  (Hat tip:  Sadie)

James Taranto does a wonderful job of skewering both Obama’s breakdown at the press conference, and the intellectual incoherence that underlay that collapse.

A nice story about a gal who acted with bravery and got honored for same.

This, from an angry liberal, is actually quite funny.

As all of us predicted here, ObamaCare is causing insurance rates to go up, not down.  This is a surprise only to people, like the angry liberal referred to immediately above, who thought Leftism could trump the laws of economics.

VDH on the problems with soaking the not-so-very-rich “rich.” I’ll just point out that, at the $250,000 level, “rich” is also a relative term.  On that income, you might be very, very rich in Kansas or North Dakota, and just getting by as a middle class person in the San Francisco Bay Area.

(More to follow, so check back.)