1. The right lessons from Solyndra
Those of us not recently arrived from Mars have failed to avoid the bloviation, bullcrap posturing and other signs of political preening that have been visited on us as a result of the failure of Solyndra. For a more sober reflection on the real lessons of the failure, see here. (WARNING - Political point scorers, don't waste your time reading this. It doesn't pander to your needs).
2. What to do if you can't defund Planned Parenthood the first time around?
Simple. If you are the majority party in the North Carolina legislature, you weasel-word the language in the vetoed bill and pass it in a special late-night session, in order to end-run a governor's veto and court smackdown. It would be stating the obvious to point out that the folks responsible for this process are a bunch of duplicitous shits, worthy only of my contempt. However, in keeping with my policy when censorious nitwits try to eliminate highly useful organizations like Planned Parenthood, I went over to their website and donated $25 to them again, just like I did when The Susan G. Komen Foundation destroyed their brand equity by trying a similar stunt. If everybody who is pissed off with this kind of political chicanery donates to Planned Parenthood in addition to simply getting annoyed or angry, then PP will not need to ask for funding from any state legislatures in future, which will immeasurably help them when the censorious nitwits double down on their attempts to destroy Planned Parenthood. This is a game plan which is line of descent from the successful attempt to destroy ACORN.

3. Another Obama eligibility lawsuit is dismissed
The case in Florida brought by Michael Voeltz (Voeltz v. Obama) has been dismissed with prejudice by the State Court. This means that it cannot be re-filed. (NOTE - Dismissed With Prejudice is basically a judge saying "GTFOOMC"). This moves the current State Ballot scorecard to 0-135.
4. Greenpeace advertising billboard rejected in Alberta
See this story of how a quite inoffensively creative ad billboard from Greenpeace was rejected.