Empowerment

Degree of separation

Romney stimulus?

Malaise-a-palooza 2012

Disapproval

To the, uh, rescue?

**Written by Doug Powers On the night Kim Jong-il’s death was reported, I wrote half-jokingly (or maybe quarter-jokingly) that Jimmy Carter had volunteered to lead a US delegation to the funeral. According to the state-run media in North Korea, Carter has done the next best thing: Former President Jimmy Carter has sent North Korea a […]

**Written by Doug Powers By way of the Laura Ingraham Show — I think Obama’s speech writers might owe Carter’s speech writers some royalties: **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe

Pyongyang Jimmy

Mix-up

**Written by Doug Powers The Chinese government isn’t too happy with the Nobel Peace Prize recipient this year: Since Liu Xiaobo’s selection, China has vilified the 54-year-old democracy advocate, called the choice an effort by the West to contain its rise, disparaged his supporters as “clowns,” and launched a campaign to persuade countries not to […]

A hug therapy seminar, perhaps

President Obama is headed to New Orleans this weekend to mark the 5th anniversary of Katrina. The papers and airwaves will be clogged with all sorts of retrospectives. My column today reminds you of the ugly racial demagoguery by leading Democrats and “civil rights” leaders from Jimmy Carter to Charlie Rangel to Malik Zulu Shabazz. […]

**Written by Doug Powers The push to get taxpayers to pay for the upkeep of Jimmy Carter’s brother’s gas station and turn it into a national park (suggested name: “Mount Lushmore”) began last year, but it was dealt a blow yesterday: The gas station of former President Jimmy Carter’s beer drinking brother will not become […]

Chilly.

Blight.

My column this week looks at the Dems’ Dhimmi Carter problem. Even the left-wing SF Chronicle is advising him to stay home. The Palestinians deride the Postman. Samuel Segev fills in the blanks of what Carter left out of his progress report. Jay Ambrose jibes: “Carter has demonstrated that one determined individual can do harm […]

Mouthful.

Tool.

Chickens coming home to roost. (Photoshop hat tip: Wuzzadem)

Nuts.

Smearing America. Again.

Jimmy Carter says he has signed more than 100,000 books during his book tour. Book publishing insider Brad Miner’s B.S. detector has been activated. Update: Whoops.

The New York Sun weighs in on “The Axis Bomb:” To the extent that America needs to be particularly wary, it is of the danger that the North Korean test could be, like the war in Lebanon and Israel this summer, an Iranian-Syrian stunt aimed at diverting world attention from Tehran’s own nuclear program. The […]

A quick look around the ‘series of tubes’: **Dawn Summers wonders why the UN recognizes Hezbollah but not Taiwan. **Allahpundit notes there have been no demands or taking of responsibility for kidnapped FOX news employee Steve Centanni. **James Taranto agrees that the George Allen ‘kerfuffle’ is pretty silly as far as kerfuffles go. **Kathryn Jean […]