Snark of the Day: A Mark Steyn Reader

Today’s BitsBlog SNARK OF THE DAY award goes to an un-named reader of Mark Steyn.

Re my item below on the Illinois Senate’s proposed legislation on the planetary status of Pluto, a reader says:

I think it’s brilliant. But in

Ed Morrisssey, Hot Air, writes:

When discussing war crimes during World War II, two events usually get thrown out as indictments of the Allies: dropping atomic weapons on the Japanese and the raid of Dresden, in which 25,000 people

The San Francisco Chronicle reports on an attempted mugging gone terribly awry:

(02-20) 11:29 PST OAKLAND — A 23-year-old visitor from the East Coast had just gotten money from an ATM when he told his friend on a cell phone

Bertha Lewis, ACORN:

Housing is a right.

See the video:

Read the transcript, via Steve Gilbert, Sweetness & Light.

No Ms Lewis, housing is not a right.  Housing is a commodity, to wit a product of human endeavor. 

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It’s the Corner Store edition. Just a few quick items. In, and out.

• Obama to be upstatged: As you likely already know, Barack

Christopher Buckley writes today:

It’s tricky, trying to channel your father’s ghost. Hamlet tried it. I think I won’t. But I miss WFB’s takes on—everything that’s going on. Often, I’d find myself flailing aimlessly or circularly about some issue, trying

ABC 2 News, Baltimore, MD:

Some community activists could face criminal charges after breaking into a home in Southeast Baltimore.

[…)

After snapping a lock with bolt cutters, ACORN member Louis Beverly told supporters “this is our house now

Alan Reynolds, New York Post, writes of the Foreclosure Five states:

When President Obama discusses his $275 billion mortgage bailout, he talks as if it was a national problem, caused by a national decline in home prices. “We must

Michelle is calling it a Tea Party.   William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection, offers another analogy:

This movement can succeed if it does not stop at protest and includes changes in economic behavior. Obama’s redistributive plans require higher taxation,

The loyalists to the communist ideal, the ones who have never given up hope about it being the salvation of Mankind,  have forever tried to convince the rest of us that Communism would work if we’d just done it right. 

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Steve Gilbert, Sweetness & Light, has up, “:Obama To Half Deficit By End Of Term:”

We get a tip off about the mendacity in this New York Times article early on:

The president inherited a deficit for

Charles M. Blow, New York Times, thinks were are all racists ;

[A] CNN poll from last January found that 72 percent of whites thought that blacks overestimated the amount of discrimination against them, while 82 percent of blacks

Mrs. Clinton on advancing human rights issues with the ChiComs, via Gateway Pundit:

“But our pressing on those issues can’t interfere on the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis and the security crisis.”

The difference between antropogenic

The other day, I asked the question:

I can’t help but wonder if we aren’t at or beyond a tipping point  against Obama and the Democrats… even from people who supported their election.

Increasingly, I am forced answer that question