Oh, Thank God: Obama Set to Reveal NCAA Picks

Big Government  "Japan is suffering from a natural disaster that threatens to turn into an existential crisis. Colonel Q-ball has unleashed a blistering assault on pro-democracy rebel forces. Large swaths of the Middle East are in turmoil. The federal government is bleeding red ink, with absolutely no end in site. The economy sucks and is getting battered by skyrocketing commodity prices and a volatile oil market. Near-record numbers of Americans are leaving the work force. If the world isn’t quite on fire…it is at least approaching a slow burn."

"Mike Allen’s Playbook reveals that today, Barack Obama will take some time to fill out his bracket for the upcoming NCAA College Basketball tournament."

Obama’s Presidency Hangs by a Thread  "It’s hard to overstate how poorly Barack Obama is doing in the face of these crises — and I don’t even mean how he’s doing substantively, which is a scandal in itself. I mean how he’s doing politically. Recall how much hay Michael Moore made of the fact that George W. Bush read My Pet Goat for nine minutes in that Florida classroom on 9/11 after being informed that the first plane had struck.
"We’re going on four weeks now, or more, that Barack Obama has been reading My Pet Goat."   John Podhoretz

The 30,000-foot presidency?  "In foreign affairs, Americans expect their President not just to lead the debate here in the US but around the world. Congress can advise on foreign affairs, but the executive has all of the authority to negotiate American interests abroad. Maintaining a “low profile” and ceding influence to France is not exactly what Americans consider leadership on the world stage, a role we expect our Presidents to assume.

"The “above-the-fray strategy” argument is weak cover for an “over-his-head” President."

The Whiniest President Ever

National Review  "President Obama gives off a sense of world-weariness and exhaustion with America’s leadership — and has earned a Nobel Peace Prize as a result. He reflects the deep vein of declinism running through the country’s elite, the same class of people who pronounced the presidency uninhabitable just as Ronald Reagan arrived to prove them wrong.
"Today, as in the late 1970s, the job isn’t too big, nor is the country too powerful: The man is too small."  Rich Lowry

The King Hearings on Islam

From the Media Research Center:  CBS Uses American Muslim Family to Frame Hearings on Radical Islam as Discriminatory "Anchor Katie Couric introduced Doane's report this way: "...most of the more than two and a half million Muslims living in this country want it known they are patriotic Americans." As if the hearings somehow accused all American Muslims of being unpatriotic."

CBS Accuses Peter King of 'Poisoning the Atmosphere' of Radical Islam Hearings "During her Evening News report, Cordes hit King for only inviting witnesses to testify who "share his view that some Muslim-American leaders aren't cooperating with law enforcement." She added that "From the start, Democrats called the hearing an abuse of power." However, later in the segment, she touted emotional testimony from Democratic Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison, one of two Muslims in Congress, who disagreed with King's premise."

CNN's Velshi: Rep. Peter King Has 'Strange Obsession with Islam' "Perhaps he doesn't understand that Islamist is a synonym for a radical Muslim, and that the term, in its current usage, has been around for decades, and has its origin in French academia."

Unravelling the Social Fabric of Our Lives  "...Muslim gangs growing more dangerous in Minnesota -- a trend we are seeing in Maine as well, where Muslim gangs are wilding, leaving terror in their wake. Women are intimidated and slapped on the street. Police report that swarms of Somali Muslim boys, some as young as 8, others in their late teens, overwhelm solitary victims through sheer numbers. These gang members carry sticks and rocks with which to intimidate their victims. There are often four or five of them, sometimes as many as a dozen."  Atlas Shrugs.

Wisconsin and Governor Walker

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2011/3/15/83899

Wisconsin Aftershocks  "The law was supposed to be published on Monday, and it would go into effect immediately. But guess what? Didn't happen. The new law wasn't published yesterday. In fact, the law will not be published until March 25th. Why not? Well, because the Secretary of State Doug La Follette, who is a Democrat (as if you didn't already know that) is delaying publication. He thinks this will give unions and local governments as much time as they need to reach new agreements."

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Who Won In Wisconsin? "Labor thinks it gained momentum. But even Democratic governors have accepted fiscal reality."  Mona Charen

'They Can't Win': Mika Mocks '12 GOP Field

Newsbusters  "The Morning Joe co-host today disdainfully dismissed the GOP White House hopefuls, categorically stating "they can't win." Mika made her triumphal declaration during a panel discussion of Republican primary prospects. Pat Buchanan countered with the '92 historical analogy."

ABC Exploits Japanese Tragedy to Undermine Minor GOP-Proposed Domestic U.S. Budget Reduction

ABC, CBS and NBC

Media Research Center  "Then on Saturday’s World News, reporter Clayton Sandell found it newsworthy to highlight how “Democrats accuse Republicans of being irresponsible for proposing budget cuts to NOAA, the federal agency that provides forecasts and early warnings of natural disasters.”
"Sandell cued up a California Democrat with a loaded question: “NOAA's budget gets cut, are people's lives more at risk?” The Congressman, who represents the state’s northern coast, naturally, agreed: “Absolutely.” "

On Libya and Budget, Obama Votes ‘Present’

Michael Barone "Voting “present” may be a responsible move for a legislator genuinely undecided about which way to go. But an executive voting “present” is choosing a course with consequences, whether he likes it or not."

From The Jordan Times: Obama should move faster  "Has the American president been probably twiddling his thumbs while the Arab world has been gloriously experiencing an unprecedented revolution against these autocrats, often the favourite lackeys of key Western leaders, because of the oil wealth in the region, estimated as 60 per cent of the world’s output."

Obama’s Social Security Hoax "The relative ease of the fix is what makes the Obama administration’s Social Security strategy so shocking. The new line from the White House is: no need to fix it because there is no problem. As Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director Jack Lew wrote in USA Today just a few weeks ago, the trust fund is solvent until 2037. Therefore, Social Security is now off the table in debt-reduction talks.
"This claim is a breathtaking fraud."  Emphasis added.

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/garymccoy

The Fruits of ‘Concern’  "Qaddafi and his disgusting sons will have got the better of the United States while their victims will be cursing it. Can Obama really be happy to have helped bring about such an outcome? Is that to be his presidential legacy?"

American Thinker on Obama's performance as President of the US

Embarrassed To Be American  "There is something quite shameful about watching our President attending a dress-up dinner, trolling for laughs, as one of America's allies struggles for life. I'm embarrassed for America, and I send my personal apologies to the Japanese people for the insensitivity of our President.

"As the turmoil in Libya continues to escalate, threatening severe geopolitical consequences, it is France (France?) that has filled the global leadership void by proposing a no-fly zone over Libya. What is the President of the free world doing? During his Saturday afternoon radio address to the nation, Obama was busy lecturing Americans about the role of women. And writing an op-ed about the virtues of gun control."

The Soft Evil of Barack Obama  "Such is the nature of soft evil. In international affairs, in abortion, in healthcare, in millions of new regulations and taxes, in a thousand ways and relationships the lines between unalienable rights and illegitimate policy are blurred. Soft evil whispers "power" and Obama smiles.
"Take a look around this country. Outside the Beltway, we are all Jews now."

 Obama Calling Tea Party Racist Reveals A Far More Disturbing Reality  "Obama's inauguration brought tears to the eyes of millions of Americans. Blacks are only 12% of our nation's population, which means it took many million white votes to put Obama in the Oval Office. Thus, most of the American tears of joy were white.
"President Obama is fully aware of this truth.
"Obama willfully dividing Americans by exploiting his race for political gain is a despicable betrayal of the whites who elected him. But even more disturbing, it reveals the true character of the man running our country. America deserves much, much better." Lloyd Marcus

Barack Obama: A Management Appraisal "Lacking both the relevant education and experience, were he applying for an executive position in any company, he would in all likelihood be quickly rejected. His refusal to divulge school records and grades would also work against him. If the business to which he applied was involved in any form of sensitive or defense work, his past associations with radicals would result in the denial of any security clearance.
"From a business standpoint, his lack of performance and organizational skills would demand that any ethical consultant approach the Board of Directors with a very strong recommendation that Mr. Obama be fired. Perhaps in 2012, he will be."

Obama gets Carter's Disease in Libya  "Obama is a grandstanding blow-hard, and the world understands that by now. Telling Hosni Mubarak to leave the presidency of Egypt after 30 years of a very successful alliance that stabilized the Middle East was unnecessary, dangerous, and humiliating to a man who deserved better from the United States. But Obama did more. He has just rationalized and excused the very likely event of a radical Islamist takeover of Egypt. He thereby added foolhardiness to his usual empty boasting. That makes his ego tripping dangerous.
"This is the same Obama who accepted Mubarak's invitation two years ago to deliver his we-love-Muslims speech from Cairo's Al Azhar University. He first made nice with Mubarak, and then stabbed him in the back, while puffing up his Zeppelin-size ego."

Rich Terrell on Keith Ellison

Mohammed Salman Hamdani: A Hero All Along  "If the climate was what Keith Ellison insinuated — all sorts of nasty rumors circulating about Hamdani just because he was Muslim, etc. — those dogs should have barked.
"And I didn’t hear them barking. And others didn’t either, and followed my conclusion that Ellison’s speech was pretty phony."
Article and mega-snarky art via Rich Terrell of http://terrellaftermath.com/

Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami

NY Times  Move the slider to compare satellite images, taken by GeoEye, from before and after the disaster.
Spectacular photography. Hat tip to Clark Best, Tillamook County, Oregon.

Let's Make Obama King

Powerline  "Last night Col. Ralph Peters was on Bill O'Reilly's show, talking about Libya. Peters thinks we should act on behalf of the rebels there, but he expressed skepticism that President Obama will ever do anything. "Obama loves the idea of being President," Peters said, "but he can't make a decision.""

Obama’s incredible lack of leadership  "The reason Obama can’t make a decision is he can’t reason like a leader must.  He has no experience.  And he doesn’t understand the decision making process as practiced by a leader.  He’s never really had to make leadership decisions. So he simply tries to avoid making them.  One way he does it is to ignore the problem.  Another way he does this is to appoint commissions and panels concerning problems the country faces in order to defer the problem (and decision).  He also like to defer to the “international community” on foreign policy or the Democratic leadership in the legislature on domestic things.  Again, the avoidance of decision making."

Palestinians Hand Out Candy After Murder of 5 Israelis in Their Sleep

  Gateway Pundit  "A Palestinian terrorist stabbed five family members to death in the settlement of Itamar early Saturday morning; three children, including baby girl, among victims. Later that day Palestinians handed out candy to celebrate the mass murder."

"YNet News reported:"...

ABOMINABLE MURDER IN ITAMAR  "5 family members were murdered in Itamar, Israel, stabbed to death by a terrorist who managed to get through an electrified fence. Do I need to continue with that part? What I can say is that, as the article tells, Fatah's al-Aqsa Brigade has claimed responsibility."

What Kind Of Person stabs a three-month old infant to death? "Children have been killed in war before, unfortunately.  But the thought of the person or people who stood over her, and what was going through their minds as they cut her, is just unimaginable."
In Gaza, they celebrated the Itamar terror attack

"To expect a meeting of the minds with those who take delight in the death of Jews is an obscenity.
"Words fail me.... that picture illustrates more than all the words in the world why peace with the Palestinians will not be attained in our lifetime."  From the comments in this post.