In my email today: Darleen — I just renewed my oath of office to serve as your president for four more years. Thank you for making this possible. It’s an honor to be your president. Now it’s time to finish what we started — let’s get going. Barack P.S. — Organizing for Action is the next step in our grassroots movement and will be crucial to finishing what we started.

No, it didn’t help. I’ve got some sort of stomach bug. Forgive me, but you’re on your own for the Obama beatification ceremonies and celebrations. Consider this an open thread. Helpfully vomit free. Meantime, here’s my very old piece on “race” and racial constructivism — which I like to share on MLK Day — made all the more timely by the “post-racial,” “post-partisan” President and his very real applications of

The kind of “extreme fringe group” that led the fight to defeat gun control measures that disarmed blacks. But then, I guess when you’re a Democrat and a progressive, disarming minorities and assuming control over subjects — that is, state slavery — is an historic norm. Making anything that protects liberty and equality of opportunity appear “fringe” to you. Not to mention a nuisance. If only these fringey people would

But don’t call him an imperial President. Or speak of “nullification.” Or even “Chicago-style politics.” Those are all code words for “you’re just angry that it’s taken a brilliant black man to correct all the flaws in the Constitution as written by a bunch of treasonous white vermin assholes. Cracker.” And nobody wants to be caught speaking in racist code. (h/t nr)

After all, he pays taxes for police and a standing professional army, does he not? He’s covered. So for him to get his hands dirty — and that’s what gun ownership is, a kind of uncouth, quasi-racist filth caked to the paws of those anti-commonsense gun-nut extremists we’ve been hearing from lately, who watch too many movies and fantasize about using their firearms to protect their families or communities (like

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Bravo, Michael Garcia

via Doug Ross. From Assemblyman McLaughlin’s Facebook page: Here it is. This is the video where I was asked to keep the Democrat proposals for the NY SAFE Act away from the public. This list was given to me by a colleague and it is not confidential. This bill was an attack on the 2nd amendment and the Democrats clearly wanted to dismantle the work of the Founding Fathers. None

h/t Smitty