*ObamaCare: Socialism by any other name, by Matt Patterson.
“A Bolshevik is an early 20th century Russian revolutionary; a plot is a plan hatched in secret. Obama is not the former and has not engaged in the latter. However, the President and his allies have openly strived to socialize significant aspects of American society through health care reform. By fabricating a bogus “Bolshevik” charge, Obama cleverly avoided addressing the actual – and legitimate – charge of socialism.”
Read the whole thing.
*Statist RINO upset that CPAC “becoming increasingly more libertarian and less Republican over the last years.” Yes, how dare CPAC become big-tent in time for 2010.
*Obama Lacks One Crucial Ingredient: Intuition, by Michael Barone.
“Obama too may develop better intuition than he has shown so far. But first he has to acknowledge that a successful presidency requires more than the confidence conferred by a high IQ and fancy degrees.”
*Anti-Semitic Incidents Reach Highest Level Since WWI, by Nir Hassan (H/T Gateway Pundit).
RELATED: Jews Leave Swedish City After Rise in Hate Crimes.
“This new hatred comes from Muslim immigrants. The Jewish people are afraid now.”
*Obama Selects a Voice of Radical Islam, at the Washington Examiner.
*Vindicating John Yoo: Bush lawyer’s are found to have acted ethically, unlike their accusers, at the WSJ.
*The System is Working Exactly as Planned, by Jennifer Rubin.
“The failure then is not of the “system,” but rather of the Obami and of the congressional Democrats — in eschewing the center and trying to push through a far-reaching agenda with no popular consensus, and, indeed, in the face of a great deal of opposition.”
RELATED: The Glory of Gridlock, by Will Collier.
*Bill Bennett has problems with Glen Beck’s CPAC speech.
RELATED: Bennett vs. Beck, by Jonah Goldberg.
*Summit of Spin, at NRO.
“All the evidence of the last year suggests that this type of bipartisanship — a Republican surrender — is the only kind in which he (Obama) is interested.”
ClimateGate
*About those rising sea levels…
“Scientists have been forced to withdraw a study on projected sea level rise due to global warming after finding mistakes that undermined the findings.”
*The World’s Biggest Story, Everywhere But Here, by Charlie Martin.
*How Al Gore Wrecked Planet Earth, by Walter Russel Mead.
“If the skeptics are right and the world isn’t warming — or if natural causes are responsible for climate change – it doesn’t matter much. But if Al Gore and the climate change people are even half right about what is happening to our world, the cost of Mr. Gore’s failures are incalculably great. He was the one world leader who had the standing inside the climate change movement to lead it onto a more sustainable path and, as far as we can tell from the facts now before us, he didn’t really try.”
