Oops. **** update: As I noted before the caucus, if Santorum wins, Iowa (we’ll be told) tells us nothing, really; if Romney wins, however, it’s RESOUNDING PROOF! that he’s the inevitable nominee, and that his momentum is too strong to beat back — so all the other non-top tier competitors should just do the right thing and drop out so the GOP can get to work burnishing up its newest

Obama “will not rest” until he finds a way to create jobs. But first, a nap! Washington Post: The Obama administration will announce this afternoon it is rejecting a Canadian firm’s application for a permit to build and operate a massive oil pipeline across the U.S.-Canada border, according to sources who have been briefed on the matter. However the administration will allow TransCanada to reapply after it develops an alternate

“For their own good. Though as Queen, I reserve the right to enjoy a 10-ounce American Wagyu steak and special-order red velvet cake. Because leading so vigorously requires the kinds of extra calories that simply doing as you’re told doesn’t. It’s a curse, frankly. “Oh, if the masses only knew how good they have it!”

I’m curious, because somehow we’re supposed to believe it’s somehow “racist” to require you to prove yourself yourself before you cast a vote (as a way to combat voter fraud — which of course isn’t a big problem, and even if it is, well, RACISTS!), and yet it’s not considered “racist” to require people to show a picture ID to board a plane. Though I’m sure that’s just an oversight.

So writes Amanda Marcotte, who confuses the singular with the plural (at issue is one Scout), and whose elevation to the status of a widely published public thinker is a particularly salient (and, unfortunately, recurring) reminder of the intellectual rot the academic left has institutionalized in its long march through both language and our cultural institutions. In an article dripping with contempt for those who don’t readily allow for Marcotte’s

Incidentally, whatever happened to Alan Colmes? Didn’t he use to be on with Hannity? Or maybe he still is, but his skin finally grew so translucent that he’s all but invisible…? Either way, an improvement to the show.