Do as I say, not as I-shovel-so-many-hot-wings-and-fried-Snicker’s-bars-into-my-face-that-should-I-add-in-a-few-Chinese-fire-peppers-chances-are-I-could-shit-you-out-an-order-or-General-Tsao’s-chicken-and-a-chocolate-dessert-parfait. Recognize.

So asks the WaPo’s Richard Cohen, who likes to use his own Judaism as a badge of moral authority on such matters. And try as he might, Cohen can’t find even a hint of anti-semitism — writing off the very idea as a “reprehensible” “right wing” plot to discredit the protests. But then, I think I figured out Cohen’s journalistic failing: he was out looking for paper mache renderings of

Good lord, make it stop. Like, now. Seriously. WE CAN’T WAIT!

And the absolute last time I ever pack a vibrator for an international flight, I can tell you that. (h/t afs)

At the American Spectator, W. James Antle III, responding to Ross Douthat’s suggestion that the TEA Party will be to blame for a Romney nomination, offers this reminder: For the past 24 years, conservatives have failed to unite behind a single candidate, splitting their votes between the frontrunner and various right-wing alternatives who appealed to particular subsets of the conservative movement. Candidates beloved by the movement have failed to catch

Evidently, Islam stands for social justice first and foremost. Gays, women, Jews, Christians, and Buddhists were mostly unavailable for comment.

Shampoo, rinse, repeat: President Barack Obama’s latest proposal to help struggling homeowners—to be followed soon by a student debt initiative—isn’t likely to be much more successful than previous efforts. An analysis by MF Global’s Washington Research Group estimates the plan to make it easier for homeowners to refinance their mortgages will target just “600,000 to 1 million more refinancings of underwater borrowers. … For those who get HARP refinancings, this

It’s easy if you have an extra $16K to spend on a dead dude’s tooth. I guess.

The Arab Spring continues apace! Meanwhile, “maverick” John McCain and putative GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney rush to congratulate Obama on his foreign policy successes. Which, from where I sit, appears to be that Obama has routinely gotten behind movements that are toppling Arab strongmen and replacing them with Islamists and Islamic theocracies, just in time for Iran to arm itself with nuclear weapons, and just in time for a

I understand and sympathize with wanting to put some sort of co-equal check on the courts — and indeed, I agree that the Left has and will continue to game the judiciary to advance its ideological agenda. I likewise agree that left unchecked, they will eventually force the deconstruction of the Constitution itself (Wickard and others have undoubtedly provided inroads for just that strategy) by completely undermining its original aims.