The Styrofoam President

American Thinker "Receiving the so-called Peace Prize will not help. Mr. Obama will feel compelled to accomplish something big to fill the shoes he’s been handed. As we have already seen, alas, Obama’s goals are driven by ideology and are not good for the country." Other Awards Obama Deserves to Win David Haas, AT ; Will Obama's Peace Prize hurt him politically? Ed Lasky;

Noonan on Obama’s Nobel

World Magazine "Noonan says that Obama can deflect the attention off himself when he accepts the award, by explaining the U.S. to the world – including a reminder that in order to have peace, you often have to kill the killers:..." h/t to Pete Smith

So, How Did They Explain It?

Powerline Blog "This is unintentionally self-revealing: the Norwegian Nobel Committee has been working at its left-wing task for 108 years, but just now, with President Obama's election, has the committee found a hero--someone whose liberal foreign policies line up "precisely" with the committee's own prejudices. How could the committee wait, when the very exemplar of its left-wing, trans-national foreign policy is at hand?"

Breitbart "Charles Krauthammer is BRILLIANT!" (Comments) Townhall

Who Really Won? / In diminishing American power abroad, Obama and the U.S. choose decline.

Mark Steyn= "Why squander your presidency on trying to turn an economically moribund feudal backwater into a functioning nation state when you can turn a functioning nation state into an economically moribund feudal backwater?"

So Far, Media Quiet on D.C. Gay-Left Activism/Protest Weekend

Newsbusters "As expected, a cast of Hollywood liberals are official endorsers of the march for what they call "gay marriage":

What happened to global warming?

BBC "[ This scientist] claims that solar charged particles impact us far more than is currently accepted, so much so he says that they are almost entirely responsible for what happens to global temperatures. He is so excited by what he has discovered that he plans to tell the international scientific community at a conference in London at the end of the month. If proved correct, this could revolutionise the whole subject. "

Barack Obama's peace prize starts a fight

UK Times online "In a clear swipe at his predecessor, George W. Bush, the committee praised the “change in the international climate” that the President had brought, along with his cherished goal of ridding the world of nuclear weapons." Breitbart h/t to Drudge.

Iran: Israel's threats inexplicable

YNET "Iran's ambassador to UN demands Security Council take steps against comments made by Ephraim Sneh, who said Israel would attack Iran if sanctions weren't in place by Christmas."

Decline Is a Choice

by Charles Krauthammer "Nothing is inevitable. Nothing is written. For America today, decline is not a condition. Decline is a choice. Two decades into the unipolar world that came about with the fall of the Soviet Union, America is in the position of deciding whether to abdicate or retain its dominance. Decline--or continued ascendancy--is in our hands." ...."There are things to be done. Resist retreat as a matter of strategy and principle. And provide the means to continue our dominant role in the world by keeping our economic house in order." h/t to The Weekly Standard

Obama, Afghanistan, and the Nobel Peace Prize

American Thinker "The award is a not so veiled attempt to make it psychologically impossible for Obama to now send 40 thousand more American troops to Afghanistan. To do so would be to spit in the face of his most adoring audience in his favorite venue, the vague and undefined world stage."...."And if General McChrystal does not get what he has requested, the lives of the very folks putting it on the line for freedom's sake are in even greater danger. The Nobel Committee's pathetic gesture today has literally endangered American lives in the near and distant future if they are successful in shaming Obama into not supporting the General's plan. " (emphasis mine)

Baucus Bill Would Cost More than $2 Trillion

CATO "Sen. Max Baucus’s (D-MT) health care overhaul would cost more than $2 trillion. It would expand the deficit. But he has carefully and methodically hidden those facts – so well that he has completely hoodwinked nearly all the major media."