Breakfast Scramble: Beauty And the Beast

How dumb is Dumbo, from Monty Pelerin, American Thinker:

Two hypotheses are often cited to explain why things have gotten so much worse:

1. Obama is incompetent.
2. Obama knows what he is doing and is deliberately destroying the country.

Lame Stream Media, if the media will lie about Jose Antonio Vargas by allowing him to report about illegal immigration without disclosing his massive conflict of interest to wit Vargas was illegal, see Michelle, what are they hiding

Keeping the lights on in Texas, via Physorg:

State lawmakers have passed a bill that allows Texans to skirt federal efforts to promote more efficient light bulbs, which ultimately pushes the swirled, compact fluorescent bulbs over the 100-watt

The O-conomy, from Jim Geraghty, National Review:

Since January 2009, American businesses have faced at least three big potential risks to their bottom line besides the lingering effects of the 2008 crash: A) the possibility of tax hikes

Weiner Roasted, from Robert Stacy McCain, Other McCain:

Smoke, fire.  Kettle, black. Weiner, roasted. Career, toasted.

Comment by Dandapant, McCain reader.

Literally, from New York Daily News:

Anthony’s weiner never tasted so good.

A Brooklyn sausage joint is

Obami give birth to the deathers, Andrew Malcolm professes to be confused why so much of the public refuses to accept the Obama administration’s claim of the death of Usama bin Laden at face value, from the Los Angeles

Questions for Dumbo, here just one from Victor Davis Hanson, Pajamas Media:

We are to believe that future additional drilling in the U.S. will not help lower world oil or gas prices, but calling on the Middle East

You know what a watermelon is?  It is green on the outside but red on the inside.

Big Green flops, a clearly flummoxed Bradford Plumer wonders why the watermelons movement, the so-called green movement has laid such massive big

Putting the Hurt on Obama, Charles Hurt on Barack Obama, from Washington Times:

And then there were Mr. Obama’s worldly-wise assurances that peace would reign and everybody would love us if only we had a sophisticated, multilingual president

In Cold Blood, the sad thing about this story is that I don’t find it shocking. from Claire Berlinski:

Writing in Cold Blood About Itamar

We went yesterday to Itamar, the West Bank settlement where Udi and Ruth

Dumbo on Guns, Barrack Obama, Arizona Daily Star:

It’s been more than two months since the tragedy in Tucson stunned the nation. It was a moment when we came together as one people to mourn and to pray

Who we Paleface? From Gail Collins, New York Times:

As if we didn’t have enough wars, the House of Representatives has declared one against Planned Parenthood.

Maybe it’s all part of a grand theme. Last month, they voted to

Egyptian democracy still born, Robert Springborg, Foreign Policy:

The Obama administration, having already thrown its weight behind the military, if not Mubarak personally, thereby facilitating the outcome just described, can be expected to redouble its already bad gamble. Fearing

Browner Out, Cap and Tax Czarine Carol Browner flees the arena, from Michelle:

The Obama Culture of Corruption won’t be the same without her. But the question is: While lying, eco-radical czar Carol Browner may be stepping down (

Lurch Left, John Kerry lurchs to the left, from Pete Kasperowicz, Hill:

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) warned incoming Republicans Tuesday morning against cutting back the size of government so much that it cannot contribute to U.S. productivity.

“Do