Via The Week, which catches up to Charlie Crist on the campaign trail as he mercilessly pursues the 32% of Americans who think Barack Obama has done a bang-up job in the Gulf. [...] Read the rest »

Another triumph for Marxist Hope and Change, Venezuelan dictator and Hollywood idol Hugo Chavez is now looting warehouses to confiscate food as his scheme of nationalizing supermarkets and confiscating farms proves about as successful as Robby Mugabe's policies of doing the same. Venezuelan army soldiers swept through the working class, pro-Chavez neighborhood of Catia in Caracas last week, seizing 120 tons of rice along with coffee and powdered milk that officials said was to be sold above regulated prices.

It's another severe embarrassment for the Obama administration, as the general the President hand-picked to run the war in Afghanistan gave remarkable access to a reporter from Rolling Stone (!) who recorded any number of ill-considered comments General McChrystal's aides made about members of the administration, including Joe Biden ("Bite me!"), General Jim Jones, and Obama himself.

A cruel deception only to those who believed in the first place. My gut instinct is to tell these guys to go get themselves a nice, hot bowl of crybaby soup and shut the f–k up. But these kinds of articles are chock full of so much shadenfreude, that they are too good to let pass unnoticed. From The U.K. Telegraph.

Responding to President Obama’s speech about the Gulf oil spill this morning, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said, “The immediate issue here is a broken pipe that’s been spewing hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil a day into the ocean for mor

Barack Obama can't quit smoking. But he isn't going to let Americans puff in peace. After the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act whisked through Senate and the House, the president waxed effusive. "I'm proud," he said. "This is a bill that truly defines change in Washington." The Publication: The American Conservative

Like so many people nowadays, Barack Obama’s 9th Circuit Court of Appeals nominee is a very confused man. He seems to believe that rules are made to be broken.

One of the key arguments of Barack Obama's Presidential campaign was that he would improve America's image around the world. This idea was based on the false assumption that anti-Americanism was due to factors peculiar to the Bush administration, as opposed to the basic realities of America's role in the world and the hostility that many feel toward our values and interests. Thus, anyone foolish enough to believe that electing Obama would transform our international relationships must be disappointed.

THINGS SEEMED to be going very wrong for the state medical-marijuana movement. Two days after Barack Obama was sworn in, federal agents began a series of raids on licensed cannabis dispensaries and growers in California and Colorado--something Obama had suggested would not happen in his presidency. Publication: The American Conservative

Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has directed enrichment of a portion of that country's stockpile of uranium to 20 percent. Experts regard this as an important step forward for Iran's nuclear weapons program. The reaction of Defense Secretary Robert Gates seems significant:

At a news conference with French Defense Minister Herve Morin, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates praised President Barack Obama's attempts to engage the Islamic Republic diplomatically and chided Tehran for not reciprocating.

Boehner and Cantor say the Pubs aren't going to be a part of any Presidential photo-op/dog-and-pony show:

If the starting point for this meeting is the job-killing bills the American people have already soundly rejected, Republicans would rightly be reluctant to participate,” the pair explained in a letter to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

They also said President Barack Obama should remove reconciliation from the table.

We haven't written about the faux controversy over Sarah Palin's writing a few words on the palm of her hand at the Tea Party convention, apparently as reminders for her speech or the Q & A session that followed. Liberals purported to find the presence of phrases like "tax cuts" significant. It isn't clear why; pretty much everyone who gives a speech uses notes if he doesn't actually read a prepared text, and Barack Obama seemingly can't order a cheeseburger in a restaurant without his Teleprompter. So the Left's huffing and puffing was pointless.