O.K. My Head Is Spinning

Since when did the President of the United States tell a sitting governor not to run for election?

Since when did staff from the National Endowment for the Arts and staff from the White House lean on artists to produce art supporting the President's political agenda?

Since when did an adviser to the President suggest in public that we might shoot down an ally's planes?

Since when did the President think it might be appropriate to give bailout money to Newspapers?

Since when did the President claim that the country's weapons belong to him?

Since when did this all happen in the same weekend.

History? Who Cares About The Past?

The Obama administration stabs Poland in the back on the 70th anniversary of Russia's invasion of ....Poland.

What's In A Name?

Shakespeare says a Rose by any other name would smell as sweet. But words do have meaning.

What with the traditional media outlets lagging well behind the upstarts in breaking stories in the last month or so (i.e. Town Halls, Tea Parties, Van Jones, the NEA hi-jinks, ACORN) and the blogosphere is now casting around for a new name for the "Main Stream Media." Clearly, if one is not getting breaking news from CNN, NBC, ABC and the New York Times, for example, they aren't really all that , uh, main stream.

Now, there are some alternatives that have been in use for awhile, like Limbaugh's "Drive-By Media" and Hannity's "Obama Mania Media." Glen Beck has suggested "Fringe Media" and Michelle Malkin came up with "Ostrich Media" when ABC's anchor-man Charlie Gibson claimed on Tuesday that he hadn't even heard of the ACORN story. That was four days after the Census Bureau had cut ties with the organization because of the exploding scandal. (House Speaker Nancy Pelosi used this tactic TWO DAYS LATER, but to be fair, she isn't a trained journalist.)

Me, I favor Ace of Spades' The Past-Tense Media. First, because it's cute. Second because it's accurate. And Third, because of a claim my husband always used to make that he could predict the past.

Osama Bin Laden...

Book Reviewer! Props to Jimmy Carter for making Osama's list with Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, a book so unpopular that 14 people resigned from the Carter Center's advisory board in protest when it was published.

Way to go Jimmy!

Up And Away!

Andrew Breitbart started his new website, Big Government, on September 10 with the first of five (so far) stunning ACORN videos. As Jim Treacher said, the most successful launch since Neil Armstrong!

You Lie!

Should a Representative be censured for yelling "You Lie" when the President is, you know, lying? Charles Krauthammer:

And then there's the famous contretemps about health insurance for illegal immigrants. Obama said they would not be insured. Well, all four committee-passed bills in Congress allow illegal immigrants to take part in the proposed Health Insurance Exchange.

But more importantly, the problem is that laws are not self-enforcing. If they were, we'd have no illegal immigrants because, as I understand it, it's illegal to enter the United States illegally. We have laws against burglary, too. But we also provide for cops and jails on the assumption that most burglars don't voluntarily turn themselves in.

When Republicans proposed requiring proof of citizenship, the Democrats twice voted that down in committee. Indeed, after Rep. Joe Wilson's "You lie!" shout-out, the Senate Finance Committee revisited the language of its bill to prevent illegal immigrants from getting any federal benefits. Why would the Finance Committee fix a nonexistent problem?

UPDATE: Obama's solution - amnesty for illegals, problem solved.

Washington Tea Party

Whether they were 70K or 2M, they left the place clean.