THE BERSERK EDITORIALIST

Eugene Robinson, a columnist with the Washington Post really should lay off the Kool Aid.

Writing about "birthers" - those people who have convinced themselves that Barack Obama is ineligible by reason of birth to be President of the United States, Robinson opines: "If there's been a more clinically insane political phenomenon in my lifetime than the "birthers," I've missed it."

Uh, Eugene, how did you miss Dan Rather (remember him?} on former President Bush's National Guard service? It was in your own newspaper. Or Andrew Sullivan writing about Trig Palin? Or the Post's own treatment (also see comments) of Palin mockery?

And this: "Is this what our national discourse has come to? Sheer paranoid fantasy?"

Only if it's from the right; liberals can't be paranoid.

[Update and bumped] Jonah Goldberg comments. I had completely forgotten the 9/11 "truthers."

WHAT HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING?

Er, climate change? It’s as if it was last year’s – or last decade’s – fad.

And be sure to read the comments.

“SAFE” GUNS? OR GUN CONTROL?

In an earlier post I noted (with some surprise) that a majority of Americans support concealed carry. That reminded me of a Pajamas Media post on the bureaucratic method of gun control: “safety” certification.

California created its own test, both to drive up the cost and because a manufacturer has to pay for the test. If the manufacturer is out of business (not implausible for some older handguns), there’s no way for that gun to be certified — and therefore, no way to sell it in California. Some of the standards were also designed rather obviously to prohibit inexpensive handguns ... [an] effort to disarm a certain class of persons who are a bit too dark for ... liberals to trust with firearms.

Guns for me, but not for thee ....

IF YOU LIKE "CASH FOR CLUNKERS"

You'll love ObamaCare.

[Update] The video below is from GatewayPundit at a Cash for Clunkers rally in St. Louis.

Congressman Russ Carnahan was clobbered by tea party protesters who disagreed with Carnahan. a co-sponsor of the original piece of legislation to get the cash for clunkers program started.

Protestors were forced outside of the dealership where the rally took place.

BODY LANGUAGE

“In my own dealings with the wealthy and powerful, I have always found that the way to quickly capture the moral essence of a person is to watch how they treat those who are less powerful. “

“Sergeant Crowley, the sole class act in this trio, helps the handicapped Professor Gates down the stairs, while Barack Obama, heedless of the infirmities of his friend and fellow victim of self-defined racial profiling, strides ahead on his own. So who is compassionate? And who is so self-involved and arrogant that he is oblivious?”



From Don Surber, a comparison with a former President.



These photos seem to have struck a raw nerve on the Left (here and here).

CALIFORNIA BAFFLES VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

In Thoughts on a Schizophrenic Society, Dr. Hanson admits he’s baffled by his home state (pages 2 &3 of the post).

State government is far too large. Employees enjoy pensions and compensation far above that found in private enterprise. Spending exceeds the rate of growth and inflation. Plentiful oil is not drilled; rich farmland is taken out of production; available timber is not always logged; nuclear power is shunned; key roads are delayed; natural wealth is considered nature’s, not man’s; yet men are not to live natural lives.

And who is at fault? “They” are:

This weird “they” is what killed California, the notion that somewhere in a room a group of plutocrats sits on bags on ill-gotten gold and can be dragged out and forced to cough up bullion in tough times. Do we believe that the Big Four of Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins, and Crocker are still around, hoarding half of the state’s resources?

Read it all.

A SUBSTITUTE FOR YUCCA MOUNTAIN

A Senate vote to kill funding for the spent fuel repository in Nevada shows the Democratic Party and this administration aren't serious about energy independence, economic growth or environmental protection.

But Michael Ramirez at Investor's Business Daily has the ideal solution - empty and lead-lined.