OBAMA'S NOT INFALLIBLE, but he doesn't want to hear that. I recall reading somewhere many years ago that strong leaders tend to surround themselves with strong subordinates who can - and often do - challenge them when necessary to do so. Conversely, weak leaders tend to surround themselves with weaker subordinates whom they can dominate.

Obama's clearly a 'weak leader', which is why I'm looking for a Republican challenger of the 'strong' variety. Herman Cain is beginning to look like a first-rate challenger, for the simple reason that during the debates he struck me as one who knows what he doesn't know and is willing to put in place strong subordinates who will step up to the plate when he's wrong.

I'm going to keep watching him.

DEMOCRATS LOVE THEIR NARRATIVES. How about results instead?

THE LEFT: A Century of Fostering Racial Tension.

IT'S THE SOCIAL SPENDING, STUPID!

DIM BULBS: Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Washington Post columnist Eugene Washington. Flourescents; not incandescents.

IT WOULDN'T SURPRISE ME: Al Gore doctored a video that's supposed to prove his global warming theories.

Does Rathergate sound familiar?

NOW THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION is throwing entire organizations under the bus. Not that this move isn't justified, but the circumstances are, shall we say, a wee bit suspicious.

CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION? Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit on changing the Constitution. The caution:

When the country was founded, we had Jefferson, Madison, Washington and Franklin, among many other giants. Now we have ... well, a bunch of greedy pygmies, I'm tempted to say, except that calling them that would be an unfair insult to diminutive tribesmen.

Reynolds made some suggestions for amendments, though, one of which I thoroughly approve:

Make Congress a part-time legislature. Limit it to meeting for 90 days per year, and make it illegal for members to reside in the District of Columbia the rest of the time. With members dispersed around the nation, the influence of K street will shrink -- and so will members' disconnect with the problems of regular Americans.

Read it all.

"YOU DON'T punish hardworking Americans by wasting their tax dollars and raising their taxes to fund the green dreamscape." Unless you're the Obama administration.

WHERE ARE THE FEMINISTS? NYPD Warns Women Not to Wear Short Skirts Because They Could Get Raped. There was a time, not so many years ago, when such warnings would cause screams of outrage from the feminist coterie ... now, not so much.

PART ONE: What's happening to medical care.

Read the comments as well.

THE NEW NORMAL. It would be nice if they could also learn to spell.

HYPOCRISY, STUPIDITY, OR BOTH?

You may have gotten wind of the seven North Dakota oil companies recently charged in federal court with the deaths of 28 migratory birds.... But did you know that wind-power companies are responsible for more than 400,000 bird deaths annually, and not one has faced a single charge?

Sheer incompetence can't encompass the magnitude of this asininity.