Tip-Toeing Through the Tulips While the Housing Bubble Burst

Verum Serum "Rep. Frank, of course, has a distinguished history of ineptitude when it comes to regulation of the housing industry, and his role in the financial market collapse. But when it comes to avoiding culpability, he is second to no one in his ability to spin a web of deceipt and reinvent history."

Coulter: Media 'Working Through Grief of Car Bomber Not Being a Tea Partier'

Newsbusters  "Conservative author Ann Coulter on Friday in one sentence perfectly summed up the media's reaction to the identity of the man that caused a state of panic in New York's Times Square last weekend: "They're working through their grief of the car bomber not being a Tea Partier."  Such was marvelously said on Fox News's "O'Reilly Factor." "

As Vichy Hollywood Cowers Before Islam, Another Catholic-Bashing Film Greenlit

Big Hollywood "What we have instead is an industry infected with partisan Leftists; gutless appeasers of the highest order who at best have chosen to run from this fight and at worst have joined the other side."

The FCC puts another industry under political control.

WSJ "A federal appeals court ruled last month that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to regulate the Internet. No worries, mate. This week the Obama Administration chose to "reclassify" the Internet so it can regulate the Web anyway. This crowd is nothing if not legally creative."...."Autos, health care, energy, Wall Street and now telecom. Is there any American industry this Administration doesn't want to run?"
 Net Neutrality War Heats Up "Scaled back or not, Net Neutrality is the government foot in the Internet door, with ominous implications for future private investment as well as for the future vitality of the new media. And so the Obama agenda rolls out, aided and abetted by the old-line, far-left, Democratic committee chairmen like Mr. Waxman. November can not come soon enough."

Least Successful P.R. Campaign Ever?

PowerlineBlog "That is, the campaign to demonize and delegitimize Arizona's effort to enforce the immigration laws. Notwithstanding relentless negative coverage in the press combined with positive reports on protests against the law, and condemnation by President Obama and many other prominent politicians, Rasmussen finds that nationally, 59% of voters favor a law like Arizona's. That figure is unchanged from last week." Re: re: racial profiling  "Unless the "get tough" laws really do give investigators materially more power than they had before, the price of the blowback is not worth it." Andy McCarthy

Obama’s Good and Bad Words

Victor Davis Hanson  "Note the pattern. Americans who are successful are reduced to limb-loppers, fat cats, and phonies; they enjoy jetting to Vegas and the Super Bowl at our expense, and they seem to be “anti-immigrant” and eager to lock up Muslims — as opposed to those who wish to save children’s tonsils, save jobs, save the economy, save the Mexican poor, and save the planet."  This man is a demagogue and a political hack surrounded by demagogues and political hacks.

Origin of Wall Street’s Plunge Continues to Elude Officials

Ny Times "Through the day and into the evening, officials from the Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal agencies hunted for clues amid a tangle of electronic trading records from the nation’s increasingly high-tech exchanges. But, maddeningly, the cause or causes of the market’s wild swing remained elusive, leaving what amounts to a $1 trillion question mark hanging over the world’s largest, and most celebrated, stock market."

Brutal: Arizona governor’s ad hammers Obama on immigration

Hot Air "This makes two jokes now from the White House Correspondents Dinner that have come back to haunt him. Think he’ll be more self-deprecating next year or is he psychologically incapable of that?"  More here: Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Rejects Schumer's Plea to Delay Immigration Law : "Brewer insisted in an op-ed this week that the boycotts in protest of the law are misguided and that Arizona had no choice but to act in the absence of federal reform. President Obama said earlier this week that Washington should start working on immigration reform this year."

Black Conservatives: The New Face of the GOP

CBN "Actor and author Joseph C. Phillips believes the Republican Party has always been a natural fit for the black community. Conservative principles, he points out, were the foundation of the Civil Rights Movement. "

Cook Political Report

Cook Political.com "May 4 Primary Wrap Up: Voters in Indiana, North Carolina and Ohio went to the polls on Tuesday to select nominees. Much to the relief of both parties, there were no surprises. Republicans got their candidate in Indiana in former Sen. Dan Coats, while Democrats are pleased that Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher won the nomination in Ohio. Both have similar challenges ahead, not the least of which is replenishing campaign coffers. In North Carolina, Democrats have a June 22 run-off between Secretary of State Elaine Marshall and former state Sen. Cal Cunningham to determine who will face GOP incumbent Sen. Richard Burr in November. "

Mike Ramirez cartoon

http://townhall.com/cartoons/cartoonist/MichaelRamirez

Obama Loses Americans’ Confidence

Jennifer Rubin "...he lost the voters’ confidence. Perhaps saying so many things that aren’t so — ObamaCare would save money, the relationship with Israel is rock-solid, George W. Bush is responsible for the deficit — wasn’t the best idea. Over time he has frittered away the precious commodity of presidential credibility. And maybe the public simply doesn’t buy the holier-than-thou routine from Obama (in which he is civil while others are not, he is nonpartisan while others are craven hacks). They now see him as a big-government partisan liberal who hasn’t fixed the economy."

GOP: Dry up will to cross border

Dick Morris "But Obama will not take the step that could end illegal immigration. Why? Because he wants immigration. He seeks to reshape the partisan balance in America by increasing the number of Latino voters and marrying them to the Democratic Party by provoking Republicans who just want law and order to appear racist to Hispanic-Americans. His is a game of great duplicity and racial opportunism. But good legislation can defeat his designs and solve one of our most pressing domestic problems at the same time."

The Arizona Desert and its People

American Thinker "Those in Arizona find it baffling that elitists on the east coast, west coast and other large cities like Chicago don't want us to protect ourselves. We're not racists. We're not bigots. We're hard working Americans who don't like to live in fear. We don't like being robbed. We don't like having to clean up after others who don't care what they do to our state. We definitely dislike seeing our friends and neighbors murdered. This isn't about race. This is about crime. We will not be victims any more."  Related: What We Lost on the Border ;and  San Francisco's Unconstitutional Arizona 'Boycott' : "Who wins from an embargo when leftist run cities artificially substitute politics for market value in investments? Politicians with an almost insatiable appetite for power and praise win politically -- after all, it is not their businesses hurt by an economically irrational embargo against Arizona."

Defining Dumbness Down

Jeffrey Folks "Under the direction of leftist educators, the very institutions, charged with the liberation of young minds from the chains of ignorance and groupthink, have become increasingly effective indoctrination centers and breeding grounds for rigid, unreflective political orthodoxy."

Nashville Flood 2010: The Disaster You May Not Have Heard About

Newsbusters "Several of my readers have asked me to post the following video. I cried most of the time I watched. See if you can control your emotions better than I did (video follows with a list of some charitable organizations involved in storm relief, multiple hat-tips to readers in the area):"...Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters.