That Thursday presidential press conference. (Or "presser", as they now say)

1. Sympathy for Obama? "Needless to say, Chairman Mao, Pol Pot, Fidel Castro, Robert Mugabe, Louis Farrakhan and Rev. Jeremiah Wright never had to deal with an oil spill. And there's certainly no mention of any such thing in the Most Holy Qur'an; not a single sura. So one can't really blame poor Barack for seeming to not know anything about oil spills. In this particular case, he doesn't have a single model to follow." American Thinker........

2. White House in Disarray  "To be sure, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a disaster. BP must bear the economic costs of cleaning up its mess and the cause of the spill must be found. But now is not the time for President Obama to turn an environmental tragedy into an economic disaster. " Heritage. ......
3. Obama struggling to show he's in control of oil spill  "This is the familiar Obama: resolute and in charge. But six weeks after the spill began, those words seemed to highlight the difficulty he has had in convincing the country that he is on top of the situation. As oil continues to foul the gulf, the conflicting signals coming from the president and his team have imperiled his reputation for competence and coolness in the face of crisis." WaPo; Karen Tumulty.....
4.  Obama's Modesty: At Least I Never Said 'Drill, Baby, Drill'  "Nevermind that there's a place called ANWR--where it's much safer to drill--that Obama wants to keep off limits."  Weekly Stndard.....
5. He Was Supposed to Be Competent  "The spill is a disaster for the president and his political philosophy." Peggy Noonan, WSJ....
6. A frustrated White House press corps bites the hand that feeds it  "A press corps that was accused early in his administration of treating him with kid gloves has grown increasingly critical of its limited access to him, and the result Thursday was an aggressive and skeptical line of inquiry." McClatchy...

Mike Ramirez cartoon; IBD

Boortz's list of Government Outrages for this week.

Nealz Nuze   One article of many:  Chicago 2016 paid six-figure compensation packages to executives on failed Olympic bid . And so on...

"Squanderville versus Thriftville"; making economics understandable

Warren Buffet via FreeRepublic.com  "...take a wildly fanciful trip with me to two isolated, side-by-side islands of equal size, Squanderville and Thriftville. Land is the only capital asset on these islands, and their communities are primitive, needing only food and producing only food. Working eight hours a day, in fact, each inhabitant can produce enough food to sustain himself or herself. And for a long time that's how things go along. On each island everybody works the prescribed eight hours a day, which means that each society is self-sufficient. " Hat tip to Kerby Anderson of Probe Ministries' Point of View . From Kerby's book, Making the Most of Your Money in Tough Times

Atlanta TV Station Channel 2 - special on Arizona Border

WSBTV  This video will curl your hair.
Hat tip to Tom Mills, Santa Maria, Ca

Obama’s Fed Picks Promise More Keynesian Failure: Amity Shlaes

Amity Shlaes "All hail Keynes. That’s the message in President Barack Obama’s decision to nominate Janet Yellen, Peter Diamond, and Sarah Bloom Raskin to fill vacancies at the Federal Reserve. This trio makes sense only if you believe the philosophy of the most influential economist of the modern era, John Maynard Keynes. What makes them odd choices is that the events of the past five years don’t make Keynes look good. Other schools of economic thought come to mind instead. One is the public choice school, which holds that Keynesianism uses crises as pretext to enlarge governments. "
What is Keynesianism?

What's really behind SEIU's Bank of America protests?

Nina Easton "Targeting homes and families seems to put SEIU in the ranks of (now jailed) radical animal-rights activists and the Kansas anti-gay fundamentalists harassing the grieving parents of a dead 20-year-old soldier at his funeral (the Supreme Court has agreed to weigh in on the latter). But that's not a conversation that SEIU officials want to have."
Nina Easton is a frequent panelist on Fox News Special Report with Bret Baier.

North vs. South Korea: How Bad Could a War Get?

 Pajamas Media "Turkey has already de facto left NATO, in favor of rising Persian power. Obama has personally handed Israel its hat and coat, and shoved it towards the door. Britain has been insulted, India snubbed, and the French ignored. It wouldn’t take much more to see what remains of our alliances blown apart. In fact, it wouldn’t take anything more than the slightest wobble in dealing with a Second Korean War.
"And as this administration continues to do little or nothing as “the risk of all-out war” reaches historical highs, the signal being sent is most un-American.
" “Tread on Me.” "

Our Chief Confessor

Victor Davis Hanson    "Instead of seeing his nation or its states as the problem, our president would do better to focus on the woes of the European Union, North Korea’s sinking of a South Korean ship, Iran’s plans to get the bomb, continued terrorist attacks in the U.S., wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Mexico’s encouragement of its own citizens to violate American immigration law. Right now there are quite enough foreign felonies in the world without dwelling on American misdemeanors."

Escalating problem of terrorist infiltration via the southern border

Eileen F. Toplansky in AT ; "The rules of warfare have changed immensely and while "profiling is not congenial to our tender postmodern sensibilities" as Andrew McCarthy has written, the security of our country is supposed to be the number one priority of the President of the United States. The chickens don't invite the fox into their coop ~ why should we encourage terrorists into our country?"  Policing without profiling makes no sense  "We have met the enemy, and it is militant Islam. Yet we refuse to acknowledge that fact, pretending that the enemy is “terror” — a method of attack — rather than the terrorists who employ that method. The latest expression of our refusal to identify the enemy is our ongoing debate over “racial profiling.” One cannot listen to this debate without wondering whether three decades of political correctness have undermined not only the common sense necessary for survival, but our will to survival itself." ANDREW C. McCARTHY

U.S. police chiefs say Arizona immigration law will increase crime

Washington Post "While the Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police opposes the new law, elected sheriffs including Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, head of the Arizona Sheriff's Association, back it. Babeu said cooperation from illegal immigrants, particularly those coming from Mexico, is already low because they are in the United States illegally and because of law enforcement corruption in their native countries.
"The people of Arizona believe the overall majority of Americans are not only supportive of this law, but that our measure of generosity has been crossed, a line has been crossed," Babeu said. "

Democrats propose tax hikes in response to Schwarzenegger's fiscal plan

LA Times "The Democrats who control the Legislature have fired their opening salvo against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's spending blueprint, which proposed eliminating California's welfare program and cutting deeply into other state services, by proposing that the state rely instead on billions of dollars in new taxes to balance the budget. The Assembly's Democrats detailed a plan Tuesday that would tax oil companies and borrow billions from the nickel-and-dime deposits that consumers make on recyclable bottles and cans. Tax breaks for businesses that are scheduled to take effect soon would be delayed under the plan."
Neal Boortz's comment on this: "Read this article and then tell me why any sane person with an ounce of drive to succeed would move to California and/or start a business there."

Joe Sestak Wants Terrorists Tried in Open Court

Jennifer Rubin "It’s not easy for a politician to get to the left of the president on anti-terror policies, but Sestak has done it. He may find it difficult if not impossible to get elected when you’re to the left of Obama on the war against Muslim extremists." This from Dick Morris: Capitalize on Sestak scandal;   "Either Sestak is lying and there was never an offer or the White House has skirted very close to having committed a crime or may have stepped over the edge. And, considering the stakes and the nature of what the offer would have to have been, this scandal could reach very high indeed."