DEVASTATING CRITIQUE

CBS foreign correspondent Lara Logan provides a devasting critique of Obama’s (apparent) Afghanistan policy.


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Via Hot Air.

FACT-CHECKING “SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE”

Well, CNN recognizes that most viewers get their news from the comedy channels.

What they don’t recognize is that most viewers get their news from the comedy channels (unless they think CNN stands for Comedy News Network).

Reader Kafir comments: “Hey, fair is fair. Remember all the times the MSM fact-checked SNL skits about Bush? Wait …”

ONLINE TRACKING

”[S]ome two-thirds of Americans surveyed object to their being tracked online by advertisers. Further, once people learn about the various ways marketers can follow their online movements, the percentage climbed even higher.”

Uh, what’s new?

FOUR MORE YEARS?

When pigs fly ....

BLESSING IN DISGUISE

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, March 30, 2006: “The American people ... have to work five days a week. I don’t know why we shouldn’t.”

Politico just reported that the House no longer works 4 days a week. It works 2 1/2 days — a half-day on Tuesday and full days on Wednesday and Thursday.

Missouri Republican Congressman Roy Blunt looks on the bright side: "Two and a half days a week is plenty of time to consider the ideas coming out of this Democrat-led House. Imagine the damage they could do with five-day workweeks."

And from a comment at Don's place: ”[A]s long as the Democrats are in power, a two-day Congressional workweek should be seen as a blessing.”

A ZEPTOSECOND

A zeptosecond is 0.000000000000000000001 second. (10^-21 seconds). Instapundit defines it as “the interval between passage of a tax increase, and legislators starting to think about the next one” but reader Jonathan Bailey corrects him ....

BURDEN OF PROOF

“[Orly] Taitz -- dentist, lawyer, wife of a software executive, mother of three and a leading proponent of the ... birther campaign against President Obama -- walks briskly past her law office, which is conveniently beside the dental practice. Inside the law office is a modest conference room with a table, eight chairs, a couple of abstract paintings and a houseplant. It is here that Taitz dreams of deposing the U.S. president, proving that he is a citizen not of this country but of Kenya, maybe, or possibly Indonesia, perhaps even -- who knows? -- that he is secretly controlled by Saudi Arabia.”

When the “birther” controversy began, I was against pursuing it, citing the presidential order of succession: Vice President Joe Biden, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, President pro tempore of the Senate Robert Byrd, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner ... how bad could Obama be?

Now Biden’s beginning to look better and better ....

STEYN ON OBAMA

Forget the first part: "That’s just his usual narcissistic 'But enough about me, let’s talk about what the world thinks of me' shtick. But the second is dangerous in its cowardly evasiveness: For better or worse, we are defined by our differences — and, if Barack Obama doesn’t understand that when he’s at the podium addressing a room filled with representatives of Iran, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Venezuela, and other unlovely polities, the TV audience certainly [does]."

Read it all.

Some other Mark Steyn favorites: The Long Retreat; The Omnipresent Leader; Where Is Obama’s ‘Center’?