The civil rights movement of the 1960's liberated blacks from the Jim Crow Plantation, so LBJ built a new plantation and called it the "Great Society" and "War on Poverty." These new programs were designed to create a permanent underclass of loyal Democrat voters, and it has been a huge success for the last four decades. But as Star notes, more blacks are waking up.

To keep voter-slaves on their new plantation, Democrats have cleverly fostered a sense of perpetual victimhood and a culture of dependence among blacks. Indeed, our intrepid Community Organizer-in-Chief Obama made his career stoking racial and class hatreds and teaching his community to demand their government "entitlements." This is what Obama's beloved voter...

... to criticize Republicans for past sins, but he should also offer constructive solutions for the present. He fails to recognize that just because Republicans held the majority for six years of Bush's presidency, the minority can still block legislation through filibusters and other maneuvers. Being in the majority does not necessarily translate into power, especially when the other side is mindlessly partisan, as the Democrats were during Bush's entire two terms.

There also happened to be a couple of minor distractions from 2001 to 2007, things like 9/11, Katrina and protecting America from another terrorist attack. Imposing today's priorities on the past is silly, at best.

That said, Republicans have some...

Van Jones deserved to be terminated for gross incompetence alone. I agree with Krauthammer that signing the petition was indefensible, but his other actions should have ruled him out without further discussion. This guy is a race-obsessed hater. He's Jeremiah Wright without the jive-a$$ robe. The more disturbing question is why was such a conspicuously divisive whack job even considered -- much less hired -- in the first place?

More broadly, the Van Jones Hubbub raises a more critical question: what authorizes the president to create a virtual shadow government of dozens of czars? It is certainly not the Constitution, which requires the Senate give its "Advice and Consent" for cabinet members.

Congress needs to do...

... maintain their false sense of sanity is by surrounding themselves with other people who share their whacked out worldview. This was one of the functions Van Jones was to serve as Obama's "green jobs czar." Indeed, the idea itself of government creating "green jobs" is an exercise in delusional thinking.

But not to worry. There are still plenty of other nuts in Obama's inner circle to validate his nonsensical views of how the world works. The continuing saga "Obama in Fairy Land" now playing on a big screen TV near you.

Medved offers four principles that Republicans should embrace in any health reform. So far, so good, but there are two others that should be ironclad prerequisites for Republican support.

First, Republicans will not vote for any bill that has a "public option," or even allows for the possibility of a public option. Period. This would rule out any bill that had a "trigger," which is just a stealth way for a government takeover. Nothing on earth is more wasteful, inefficient, uncaring and full of fraud than a federal bureaucracy, and that's what the public option would create.

Second, Republicans will demand that all interstate restrictions on insurance purchases be eliminated. This is the only way to introduce real...

... has been tried many times in many different contexts -- in the Soviet Union, Iron Curtain Eastern Europe, Cuba, Pol Pot's Cambodia, and on it goes. It never works. It always harms the people, and often sparks genocidal waves of centrally planned retribution against those who aren't "with the program." Always and without exception it fails.

Yet central planning is exactly what Obama is attempting to impose on us. The Cash for Clunkers farce is but a tiny sliver of Obama's overall assault on the free market. Which raises the question: is the damage Obama is wreaking on our economy really unintended?

If you know anything about "community organizers," you already know the answer.

The first couple times I saw Beck I didn't take him very seriously, either. He definitely does not fit the slick stereotype of a network anchor. That said, he brought a fresh perspective and was covering stories that everybody else should have been covering -- but wasn't. So I began to record his shows and am now a regular viewer. Sometimes I find his style a bit distracting, but I also recognize there's real substance behind the unpolished personna.

Beck is doing the kind of research and investigative reporting that journalists were once known for, before journalism became primarily a club for effete leftist snobs. I would advise Bialosky to lighten up a bit on the elitism. He might learn something.

In spite of the MSM's maternal instincts to protect their little boy Obama, at some point the Grand Deception must collapse under its own weight. We are just seeing the first hints of that collapse. The reality of Obama's incompetence and dishonesty are breaking through to the public, and his guardians in the media can throw up all the smoke and mirrors in the world and still not halt Obama's slide into disrepute and irrelevancy. (The same could be said for the MSM, too, as polls show).

The flip side to this, which I will call Gnu's Principal of Realistic Dualism, is Cheney's rise in public approval. You don't have to be a highly trained CIA analyst to understand the importance of getting terrorists to talk about their...

I should expand on my 11:19 post regarding Obama's narcissism. It's important to understand that people with malignant narcissism disorder, like Obama, never rehabilitate. They can't. Their pathology is so deep and integral to the person's psychological makeup that nothing short of brain trauma or death ends the disorder.

In that sense, it's similar to a pedophile, whose attraction to underage children is an incurable condition. It takes incarceration or some physical barrier, like illness or old age, to end the career of a pedophile. Raging narcissists like Obama are no different. They cannot be cured, and that's what makes them so dangerous and destructive.

Once you understand how sick and nihilistic these people...

... when Janet Napolitano's was nominated in the first place, as she had no real qualifications for the job. At the time, I was looking only at relevant experience, or in her case, a dismal lack thereof. She has confirmed my worst fears and added to them with an apparent congenital talent for incompetence.

Her memo to law enforcement earlier this year to be on the alert for "potential terrorists" (which she defined as pro-lifers, gun rights supporters, Ron Paul supporters, and returning vets), should have triggered her immediate firing. It didn't. That should worry us all.

Mr. Mehlman's article gives further evidence that her appointment had little to do with homeland security, and a lot to do with pushing amnesty...