DON'T GIVE UP YET, you’re next in line for soup!

SHOOTING FISH IN A BARREL: Roger Kimball asks "What planet does [New York Times columist] Frank Rich inhabit?"

LEFTY ACADEMICS EXPLAIN THE TEA PARTY: They're too smart to just ask.

INSTAPUNDIT: "The main problem with the “new elite” is that they’re not an elite at all. That is, they aren’t particularly smart, or competent. They are credentialed, but those credentials aren’t so much markers for smartness or competence, or even basic education, as they are admission tickets to the Gentry Class ...."

Read it all, especially the updates. The Heinlein quote, from The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, is one of my favorites.

NEW YORK REP. ANTHONY WEINER, D-N.Y., is urging YouTube to take down radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki's videos from its website, warning that his message "has caused violence and is a threat to American security."

No, Weiner is worried that the availability of the YouTube videos will demolish the Left's mindless multiculturalism.

"WE DON'T WANT TO BE THE FIRST ONE TO DROP BENEFITS, but we would be the fast second."

A SHOVEL-READY PROJECT I can support.

"BEWARE INTELLECTUALS. Not merely should they be kept away from the levers of power. They should be objects of suspicion when they offer collective advice. Intellectuals habitually forget that people matter more than concepts and must come first. The worst of all despotisms is the heartless tyranny of ideas."

Read it all.

AS A GAY WOMAN who spent most of her adult life pushing the cart for liberal causes with liberal friends in a liberal city, I found that sexism, racism and homophobia are staples in the liberal world.

Big surprise ....

AREN'T DEMOCRATS supposed to value diversity and tolerance?

FAT CATS FAVOR THE GOP? Uh, no. Actually fat cats favor a big government they can more easily control.

VOTERS FED UP WITH BOSSY GOVERNMENT: "The Obama Democrats have been giving Americans more government, with a vengeance. But the voters seem about to wreak vengeance in their turn."

Read the whole thing.

OBAMA THE INTERN: the Obama administration channels Dilbert.

KATIE, BAR THE DOOR! Rhode Island may go Republican?