Instead, somebody should maybe convince Jen Rubin to run for President. Sure, she’s mostly an ill-informed, posturing idiot — and only recently a “conservative” (funny how these newbies land all the posh gigs, ain’t it?) — but at least she travels in the best circles. Anyway, here. For those of you concerned less with “optics” and more with facts: Transcript here. Cut and paste it and send it out to

Investor’s Business Daily: President Obama’s long-form birth certificate wasn’t the only thing released last Wednesday, but it was probably the least important. The Environmental Protection Agency also released its guidelines for expanding federal power over the nation’s waterways, ponds and puddles. These guidelines will take effect after a 60-day comment period and will serve as a reference for environmental agencies in determining their jurisdiction over a particular body of water,

Even as the White House (and so the news media) continues to revise the story of the bin Laden raid — opening up the way for any number of conspiracy theories, many born of the situation room photo showing a sulking Barack Obama hunkered away from the action, a spectator still in his golf clothes and a hastily applied windbreaker — there is pushback coming from the military community, including

The operation to penetrate his compound, remove his security, and take out Osama bin Laden, took 38 minutes. The burial “ceremony” that proceeded his watery disposal as a bobbing shroud of dead terrorist meat took 40 minutes. This? I can’t say. Just tossing it out there, for what it’s worth. Full disclosure: writing this post took 2 minutes, 24 seconds. (thanks to JD)

Today, they’re lining up behind Obama and the fruits of his “gutsy” decision to sign off on a raid on bin Laden’s fancy fortified hut. But it wasn’t always that way. In fact, when a Republican was in office, they seemed more concerned in hectoring him to giving up on the very programs that led to Osama bin Laden’s eventual death, trying every tack from citing Geneva Conventions and Amnesty

A vast majority of tax payers think not. The ungrateful bitterclingers. ALG: A recent Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 72 percent of taxpayers say they are not getting their money’s worth from public schools. How much money are they referring to? Well, the nation as a whole spends about $9,000 per student on the public education system. Of course that number varies state by state. But what’s more

Ten years, on the other hand? VICTORY! (h/t newrouter)

Rasmussen daily presidential tracking poll shows no immediate bounce for Obama. My guess is, most Americans feel like just doing your freakin’ job isn’t all that spectacular an accomplishment — even if it is a rarity that you’re doing so.

Canadians are waking up, it seems. And not a moment too soon. Portent? Or does the US really need to crash and burn before the masses look up from their facebook pages long enough to get an accurate lay of the land? (thanks to geoffb)

… vs. reality: To be clear: Obama should be commended for having the common sense to adhere to the policies of his predecessor — and for signing off on the mission that netted Osama bin Laden. But that’s about it. Instead, he seems to want credit for fortuitous timing, presenting himself as some sort of armchair general rather than a sitting Commander in Chief being briefed on operations in between