PRIUS NOT A CHOICE OF CAR THIEVES: “I guess our friends in the car theft business haven’t gotten the environmental message.”

From the radio.

THE WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS ASSOCIATION voted unanimously Sunday afternoon to move Fox News to the front row of the White House briefing room.

The first comment (GL) tells you all you need to know about the Left: can’t read; can’t write; can’t spell; and thinks he – or she - is smart.

ANTI-MISSILE SHIELD IN EUROPE on track for 2011.

I’ll bet Europe is reassured ....

SEEM TO THINK? Victor Davis Hanson on Congress: “Right now, the American people seem to think that the main purpose of holding congressional office is to boost egos and get rich later on -- and in the process make the rest of us poorer.”

I think Hanson would be more accurate if he were to replace the phrase “seem to think” with the single word “know.”

AMERICA’S POLITICAL RULING CLASS -- and the perils of revolution.

When [the general public] discovered that virtually no one in a position of power in either party or with a national voice would take their objections seriously, that decisions about their money were being made in bipartisan backroom deals with interested parties, and that the laws on these matters were being voted by people who had not read them, the term "political class" came into use. Then, after those in power changed their plans from buying toxic assets to buying up equity in banks and major industries but refused to explain why, when they reasserted their right to decide ad hoc on these and so many other matters, supposing them to be beyond the general public's understanding, the American people started referring to those in and around government as the "ruling class." And in fact Republican and Democratic office holders and their retinues show a similar presumption to dominate and fewer differences in tastes, habits, opinions, and sources of income among one another than between both and the rest of the country. They think, look, and act as a class.

It’s long, but ... read it all.

HONORARY PRESIDENT of the Boy Scouts of America skips Jamboree 100th anniversary to tape appearance on ABC’s “The View.”

Priorities ....

LOTT AIMS TO ‘CO-OPT’ TEA PARTY:

A 35-year veteran of Congress, former Senate majority leader, and now partner at K Street's most storied lobbying firm, Trent Lott knows the system. And the system has rewarded him richly -- as when Patton Boggs recently wrote a multimillion-dollar check to buy his firm, the Breaux-Lott Leadership Group.

So the last thing Lott needs is a bunch of unwashed, Tea-Partying right-wingers coming to Washington on a wave of anti-establishment, free-market populism, and messing up the good thing he has going.

He’s dreaming if he thinks the Republican establishment can control the Tea Partiers.

IMAGINE THE OPPOSITE OF EVERYTHING YOU KNOW TO BE TRUE, and you have mostly the worldview of the sheltered cultural elite, who navigate in rather protected channels and not in the open seas of the real world.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: If the federal government can’t – or won’t – enforce its own immigration laws, what can states like Arizona do?

For one thing, Arizona can form and expand its own state militia. Such forces were common when our nation was founded, and the Second Amendment recognizes that a "well-regulated Militia" is "necessary to the security of a free State." In short, Arizona and other states can raise and arm their own military forces.

Hmm.

BARACK OBAMA is the best thing that has happened to America in the last 100 years.

Despite the fact that he has some of the lowest approval ratings among recent presidents, history will see Barack Obama as the source of America's resurrection. Barack Obama has plunged the country into levels of debt that we could not have previously imagined; his efforts to nationalize health care have been met with fierce resistance nationwide; TARP bailouts and stimulus spending have shown little positive effect on the national economy; unemployment is unacceptably high and looks to remain that way for most of a decade; legacy entitlement programs have ballooned to unsustainable levels, and there is a seething anger in the populace.

That's why Barack Obama is such a good thing for America. Obama is the symbol of a creeping liberalism that has infected our society like a cancer for the last 100 years.

Read it all.

I AM A LIBERAL – I hate violence. But sometimes ....



YouTube link is here.

THE WHITE HOUSE may get laughed out of court more quickly than first thought. “It didn’t take long for federal judge Susan Bolton to zero in on the holes in the Obama administration’s argument in their lawsuit against Arizona and its new must-enforce policy on immigration violations.”

CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRAT is maintaining a distant third place in the primary race for D.C. mayor.

In D.C., the election is the Democrat primary; the fact that a relative conservative is even running is significant. I wish him luck.

AMERICAN POLITICS has caught the British disease.

Liberal politics is now – over there as much as here – a form of social snobbery. To express concern about mass immigration, or reservations about the Obama healthcare plan, is unacceptable in bien-pensant circles because this is simply not the way educated people are supposed to think. It follows that those who do think (and talk) this way are small-minded bigots, rednecks, oiks, or whatever your local code word is for "not the right sort".

Linked from Instapundit.

PUNISHMENT WORKS; withholding it doesn’t.

MAMA CAN’T FIND A DOCTOR, and other fallout from new Democratic legislation.

So starting in 2011, seniors will die sooner thanks to a reduction of physicians accepting Medicare, and their estates will be taxed at 55% thanks to the expiration of the Bush tax cuts. For Democrats, what’s not to like?

MRS. MADOFF exonerates Michael Mann. Sad, but true.

NEVADA IGNORES ACORN PR HEAD FAKE, proceeds with vote fraud prosecution. Good.

CAR WARS: the empire strikes again. “[W]e’ve got the government making decisions - perhaps rash decisions - about dealership closings in the wake of the GM and Chrysler nationalizations.... [I]s anyone surprised that such decisions are being made based on politics?”

ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER: Obama era makes Clinton, Bush look better.