THE CHATTERING CLASS IS AGHAST at Arizona's new immigration law.

"Harkens back to apartheid," says the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Cynthia Tucker. "Shameful," says the Washington Post's E.J. Dionne. "Terrible…an invitation to abuse," says the New York Times' David Brooks.

For his part, President Obama calls the law "misguided" and says it "threaten[s] to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans." Obama has ordered the Justice Department to "closely monitor the situation and examine the civil rights and other implications of this legislation."

Has anyone actually read the law?

Of course not. Facts don’t matter when your mind’s already made up.

EUGENE OREGON is a hate-free zone ...


... so this cannot be an example of hate speech.

Right? Uh, ... right?

IN HIS DEFENSE OF LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE, I was amused by Peter C. Pfeiffer’s assertion that elite colleges require foreign language study to “allow students to take on an alternative identity and see the world in different ways.”

President Obama went to not one, not two, but four “elite” schools: Punahou, Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard Law. He can’t speak Austrian, but he does speak Australian.

And he certainly does “see the world in [a] different way.”

NANNIES RUN AMUCK: Officials in Santa Clara [CA] are convinced that luring kids into eating foods with high sugar, sodium and fat by using toys will make them overweight and cause long term health problems.

Sorry, kids, no more Happy Meals. Sorry, parents, you just thought you were responsible for your kids.

NOT TOO ‘HIP’ AND ‘EDGY’ FOR CENSORSHIP. Mark Steyn writes on Comedy Central’s caving and censoring South Park in response to terrorist threats: “We should be grateful to its jelly-spined executives for reminding us that the cardboard heroes of the American media are your go-to guys for standing up to entirely fictitious threats. But for real ones? Not so much.”

AN AMUSING MOMENT: I just walked past my pickup in the garage and noticed the T.E.A. party sticker on the bumper - and a pitchfork in the truck bed.

But no tar and feathers.

CONTEMPT OF FOR CONGRESS. The experienced motorist will have seen a multitude of road signs warning of children crossing, elderly pedestrians and wildlife. Now Italian prostitutes get their own road sign to warn motorists of impending hookers. The sign is here.

Instapundit suggested somebody should put one in front of the Capitol building:


It fits.