*Shorter Dick Cheney: “This is war!  Man up and fight it!”

Shorter Janet Napolitano: “Let’s unionize the TSA!”

All I can say is: 

*The Pooh-Pooh Presidency, at the Washington Times.

“When Mr. Obama finally did address the American people about the attempted terror attack three days later, it wasn’t to rally a people under attack or to assure the nation he was up to the challenge of defending the United States, it was to pooh-pooh the attack. He blamed the whole thing on an “isolated extremist.” Mr. Obama bravely called on the American people to join him in continuing to underestimate the size of the problem.”

Emphasis mine.

*I Miss Bill Clinton, by The Anchoress.

*Old Boxing Matches, by Thomas Sowell.

“The loutish, loudmouth, and childish displays that have become all too common today in boxing, as well as in other sports, began in the 1960s, like so many other signs of social degeneration.”

Frickin’ hippies.

*Washington Knows Best, by Peter Ferrara.

*Obama and Our Post-Modern Race Problem, by Shelby Steele.

“I think that Mr. Obama is not just inexperienced; he is also hampered by a distinct inner emptiness—not an emptiness that comes from stupidity or a lack of ability but an emptiness that has been actually nurtured and developed as an adaptation to the political world.”

*Stop Digging, by Nicole Gelinas.

“Far too much of the debate over economic policies for the next decade ignores a central, sobering reality: We simply can’t afford another decade like this one. And while Washington politicians tell us that Wall Street is mostly to blame for our continuing economic woes, no one should believe them.”

*Our Year of Obama, by Victor Davis Hanson.

“Obama quite simply believes that those like himself — Ivy League–trained, having spent their lifetimes on government payrolls, untainted by private-enterprise entrepreneurship — not only know best what is good for America, but understand how to implement it through redistributive taxation and vastly expanded entitlements.

In such a vision of the blessed, a Platonic guardian class — so much better educated, better intentioned, better motivated than the rest of us — will direct our lives and yet be exempt from the constraints they place on the less capable.”