Breakfast Scramble: ‘Rats are Thugs

Ronald Reagan goes to Londontown, from Daniel Hannan, Telegraph(UK):

Ronald Reagan assumes his lapidary place in Grosvenor Square today, alongside Franklin D Roosevelt and Dwight D Eisenhower. All three presidents stood with Britain in war; yet Reagan –

Two takes on Dumbo’s presser, first the literate, from Yuval Levin, National Review:

It all had the feel of a childish tantrum by a person who desperately wishes he were living in a different reality — one in

It’s interesting that mainstream media journalists who are so eager to zing Michele Bachmann for getting John Wayne’s birthplace wrong, have not been interested in asking whether this was a mistake Obama made in ad libbing or whether the White

Dumbo’s Economics, how bad are Barack Obama’s economic policies?  So bad that his own chief of staff, Bill Daley has trouble defending them, from Matthew Boyle, Daily Caller:

White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley took heat from

FLOTUS lies, the Fat Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama tells lies about her husband, from Politico:

First lady Michelle Obama on Monday told a fundraiser in Southern California of the toll the presidency has taken on

Chrissy Matthews bitten by the Weiner, from back to back posts at McCain.  First Chrissy discusses values:

This is, to me, the stakes here. If [Anthony Weiner] stays, [Democrats] never get the leadership back. They never get the Speakership

With the departure of chief economic adviser Austan Goolsbee, that’s the number of members from the original Obama economic team still working for the administration, not quite three years into the first term.

Rats, say goodbye to the ship of

To my way of thinking, the saddest part of this story is Barbara Walters devolution; this once-respected newswoman nears the end of her distinguished career by playing as ghastly a non-sequitur as I’ve ever heard, saying (in essence) if Sarah

Hope has died, from Ben White, Politico:

President Barack Obama is heading into his reelection campaign with a flagging economy that appears incapable of producing the sustained job growth needed to push unemployment below crisis levels.

And there appears

Quite frankly I don’t CAIR, from Paul Walsh, Star-Tribune (MN):

A national Muslim civil rights group is asking the head of Homeland Security to investigate the use of stereotypes after a man who appeared to be of Middle East

Man bites Dog, Talking Point Memo attacks Dirty Harry Reid:

Republicans may have a point that Democrats are playing politics with oil subsidies. To understand why, look no further than the fact that the bill Senate Majority Leader Harry

Noted in passing, I see that the Dope from Hope. b/k/a Mike Huckabee is not running for President.  If Mr Huckabee wants to be President, he should run as what he is, a democrat.  Good riddens

Meanwhile, Dumbo, b/k/a Barack

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

Gutsy Call? United States has permission to take Usame bin Laden in Pakistan, from Declan Walsh, Guardian (UK):

Osama bin Laden mission agreed in secret 10 years ago by US and PakistanUS forces were given permission to conduct unilateral raid

Why Dumbo will be a one term President, from Jedediah Bila, Daily Caller:

(3) As reported by The Hill this week, “The high gas prices limited gross domestic product growth in the first quarter, and have taken a