* Obama suddenly seems super confused by the existence of the Supreme Court. “The Supreme Court could strike down a law? That’s unprecedented!” And supposedly Obama was once a constitutional law professor… or maybe people are just saying that about him to make fun of him. I don’t know; apparently his attitude is, “I got this law through two out of three branches already — that’s a super majority of branches of government — why do I need to do anything else?” Sometimes it seems like the average tourist knows more about the American system of government than the left does.

Do you think Obama would pass a citizenship test? I mean for this country.

* And some on the left are trying to claim that if the Supreme Court struck down Obamacare, it would be “judicial activism.” Judicial activism is another one of those really simple concepts that the left pretends is really complicated. Judicial activism just means making stuff up that isn’t in the Constitution to either strike down a constitutional law or uphold an unconstitutional law. It’s a means of changing the Constitution without having to go through that pesky amendment process.

Judicial activism in the Obamacare case would be judges saying that the federal government can force people to buy stuff when clearly that’s not one of the powers given in the Constitution. If people want that, they need to pass an amendment — which they know they can’t because it’s idiotic. Get a clue, people.

* You expect idiots to uselessly go after guns in the wake of the Trayvon shooting, but they’re also moronically going after neighborhood watches. Of the countless black youths killed by gun violence, what percentage of that is from neighborhood watches? Like 0.001%? So if you actually cared about black youths being shot and aren’t just a useless political slug, would you waste anytime writing legislation about neighborhood watches? But these people don’t care; they’re just twits who want attention. Why do they pull a salary for this?

* Obama struck out against claims he doesn’t believe in American exceptionalism. “I want America to best any other country out there in being like Europe. By the way, look at me; I’m not wearing a flag pin because they’re stupid.”

* Wisdom of the Day from Michael J. Nelson:

I hope they do give human rights to cetaceans because there are some psycho rapist dolphins out there that I can’t wait to see behind bars.

* Saw this headline: “Human ancestors used fire earlier than thought, study says”. Doesn’t sound like man would have survived if they learned how to use fire before they learned how to think.

* In my new New York Post column, I talk about what a great new future we’ll have with the government being able to force us to buy stuff.

What if someone in the government buys the new Adele album and decides it’s just so good that everyone should buy it? I know some would resist, but then they’d buy the album and listen to it and say, “Wow! This is good. Thank you, government!”

Congress is so great with the federal budget, they really should be dictating more of our personal ones.

* So what’s the state of the Republican primary? Romney hasn’t sewn it up, but pretty much everyone assumes it’s going to be him and thus are starting to rally behind him. Rick Santorum is trying to convince everyone it’s not over. Newt Gingrich is trying to convince people that too, but I don’t think he even believes it anymore. And Ron Paul… well, he’s Ron Paul. He has kid of a love/hate relationship with reality.

So how are things looking with Romney versus Obama? According to a new poll, Romney is trailing in the swing states thanks to women voters. I thought no one was dumb enough to fall for this “War on Women” nonsense, but I forgot about women and their flighty brains. Why again did we give them the vote?

* Keith Olbermann was fired from Current TV. Olbermann just doesn’t seem to get along with other people. Do you ever notice how these crusaders for the common man like Olbermann and Michael Moore seem to be huge jerks to everyone actually around them? How much can they really care about people if they look down on them so much and treat them like garbage?

So where does Olbermann go from here? I don’t even know of a channel more unknown than Al Gore’s Current TV. I guess he can start a free podcast… until iTunes drops him.

* Canada is ending the Canadian penny. I always found those fascinating because it was neat to hold in your hand something worth less than a penny. Of course, now it’s about worth the same… though perhaps soon to be collector’s item after being discontinued.

So should America do the same and get rid of its penny? I just use a debit card; I barely ever have any cash on me anymore so I don’t really care. Going to be loss jobs for the makers of those “take a penny leave a penny” dishes, though.

* Wisdom of the Day from Political Math:

If you play Olbermann’s career in reverse, it’s the story of a jobless man who rises from a lowly Internet channel to a prime-time talk show

* There’s a rumor that the next Playstation won’t allow you to play used games. There was a similar rumor about the next XBox. This seems like a really stupid move. Especially since they already have a system to get people to buy games and not be able to resell them: downloadable games. If they don’t want people selling used games, they should just move more towards offering games through download and no one would know the reason they were doing that was to stop used game sales. But if discs suddenly stop working when put in another system, gamers are going to be outraged. Are the companies really going to be this stupid? Whatever happened to sneaky capitalism?

* So Paul Ryan has endorsed Mitt Romney. I think we’re going to start seeing pretty much everyone coalesce around Romney now — embracing the inevitable. So, do you think IMAO should go ahead and write up a Romney endorsement? I’m not sure what I’d say.

“There are worse people than Romney… not many, but one of them is currently president, so there you have it.”

Well, despite how tepid we are about Romney, we’re going to get energetic about him the closer it gets to November. That’s when purely partisan part of the brain takes over and mixes with fear of an Obama second term.

* BTW, Paul Ryan’s budget passed the House in a 228-191 vote. It fared way better than Obama’s budget which was rejected by the House 414-0.

Our president is such a serious and capable person.

Anyway, the Democrats are going to portray Paul Ryan’s budget as “radical,” but what’s more radical: Paul Ryan’s budget or not having any budget for years?

* To combat high gas prices, Obama is trying to raise the cost of doing business for oil companies.

Yeah, I’m not sure how that logic works. It’s I guess the same “logic” used when trying to stimulate the economy: If we do mean things to people we’re irrationally angry at, then good things will happen.

* In response to the Trayvon shooting, the New York Times put up a pro-gun control editorial, and it’s kind of pathetic. I mean, it’s got the usual mindless fear and boneheaded logic common to the genre (she mentions that if New York City had conceal carry laws like the rest of the country, Jared Loughner could bring a gun into Times Square, but what exactly is stopping someone like Jared Loughner from doing that now?), but the pathetic thing is the resigned tone where she pretty much understand none of the rest of the country is listening to her.

Anyway, this got me thinking, it sure would be intellectually honest if more people started framing their arguments in the terms, “I don’t like freedom on this issue and here is why…” You pretty much never see that. I mean, gun control is an anti-freedom stance, but they never argue it that way. I think maybe that’s why they don’t understand how unpopular their stance is.

The same thing with the health care debate. The mandate is an anti-freedom stance, but they try to say they’re for more freedom by ending worries about health care, which is BS. One thing is freedom and one thing isn’t; it’s not debatable. Putting a gun to someone’s head and saying, “You must buy health insurance!” isn’t freedom and no one should pretend it is. It’s okay to take an anti-freedom stance, you just should frame it terms of why you think your ideas are better than liberty. And that will probably also help you understand why so many people don’t like your views, as the left always seems to get caught off guard by that.

* I’ve always wondered whether society will end with apes taking over — like in Planet of the Apes — or with robots taking over — like with Terminator. Well, some are trying to make both happen at once. I don’t want to sound anti-science, but we need to destroy science before it destroys us.

UPDATE 7pm: The Sundries Shack linked with some good thoughts on how Democrats could’ve done Obamacare without toilet-paperizing the Constitution, had they been serious about “helping the needy”, instead of just giving into their baser urges to attempt a loathsome power-grab. – Harvey

UPDATE 4-2-12: Linked by PA Pundits

UPDATE 4-2-12: Linked by The Patriot Post

* So they the Supreme Court discussed the severability of the individual mandate yesterday. It’s a discussion that’s moot if the mandate is upheld, but if the mandate is struck down and it’s decided that the mandate isn’t severable (it is the key to the bill’s funding), then all of Obamacare will be tossed out.

I saw this headline: “What will the Republicans do if Supreme Court kills Obamacare?” The answer: Laugh until we’re physically sick.

There will be gloating unlike this nation as ever seen if Obamacare is completely tossed out. It probably will be an awful spectacle and not be at all helpful to stopping Obama from being reelected, but we also might not be able to help it. The left will be shouting, “Stop licking our faces!” To which we’ll say, “But your tears taste so sweet!”

Well, we’ll find out in June, I guess.

* If you were waiting to hear from Pravda before making your decision in the presidential election, they do not like Mitt Romney. Certainly not as much as they like Obama. So there’s that.

But if you were waiting until George H.W. Bush made an endorsement, well he endorsed Romney. So that should totally influence… um… Well, I don’t think it will make a difference with Pravda.

Senator Marco Rubio has also endorsed Romney, though. Since Romney is pretty much certain to win, it’s not really much help at this point. I guess people just feel the need to start rallying behind him. Are you ready for that? IMAO is working on a new logo where we replace the moon with Romney’s smiling face. Go Romney!

* On the campaign trail, Joe Biden mistakenly referred to college president Dr. Paper as “Dr. Pepper.” Dan Quayle just can’t compete with this guy.

In Biden’s defense, he often makes mistakes when he’s thirsty. Or speaking.

* Underneath our noses, there apparently has been an Amish gang war going on where they cut off each other’s beards or something. Why hasn’t there been a basic cable drama — like on AMC — about the seedy underbelly of the Amish? Could be interesting. And I just pitched it. So if a studio decides to do it, they have to give me money.

And if you’re every fighting an Amish man, go for his beard. That’s the source of his power.

* Wisdom of the Day from Josh Greenman:

Using only the power of argument, Paul Clement just made me hit myself.

* Mitt Romney was recently described as an Etch A Sketch, but over at PJ Media I pick out which toys the candidates are most like.

Ron Paul is like Dungeons & Dragons. It’s this game a few people are highly devoted to and spend all their time playing, while most other people look at them as a bunch of weirdos.

Go read and discuss amongst yourselves.

* Oral arguments for Obamacare continued yesterday, and many people think the lawyer for Obamacare, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, choked. A number of people compared him to the public defender from My Cousin Vinny. The liberal Justices seemed to be trying to help him along in his answers to keep him from embarrassing himself.

Paul Clement, arguing against Obamacare, had gotten pretty much universal praise for his performance. When he spoke, the liberal justices started shrieking, “No! Nasty limits to government power! Keep it away!” There is already talk of building a monument to him for saving American liberty.

Then again, no one is ever sure these oral arguments make much of a difference. Everyone is mainly just listening to what the judges say to get an idea where they are… with special attention to Kennedy. And the chance for Obamacare being overturned on Intrade was at 30% but is now to over 55%. And Dems are already spinning how having Obamacare struck down would be the best thing ever for Obama’s reelection chances (how could having one’s signature, yet extremely unpopular, legislation struck down as unconstitutional be anything but good). Still, I don’t think we get the final decision until June. Hopefully on my birthday.

* Romney is building a new house, and it has a car elevator. I don’t know why this is news. I guess we’re supposed to react and say, “Grrr! He’s rich! Let’s be whiny and hate him!” In the time it takes you to read about Romney’s car elevator, the government will waste far more money than that cost — except, unlike Romney, they won’t be spending their own money.

Really, I wish that anyone in America who whined about someone else spending his own money were fired out of cannon into Canada. It would a special “Whiners Deportation Cannon”.

Okay; it would just be a normal cannon.

* Rick Santorum is slipping in the polls in Pennsylvania. If he can’t win his home state, things don’t look good for him… except things already don’t look good for him as there is already no fathomable scenario in which he gets a majority of delegates. But not winning PA would make things look extra bad. So I hope he loses big.

Just end this stupid primary! Please!

* Wisdom of the Day from David Burge (yeah, I know I quote him yesterday too):

The Constitution: a pre-existing condition that doesn’t cover Obamacare.

* Fox is planning on releasing in July a Ben Stiller comedy called Neighborhood Watch, but decided to pull the trailer because of recent events. Apparently a lot of the humor in it is about accidentally shooting minority children in hoodies. Bad timing.

* If you were all worried about missile defense protecting us and our allies from nuclear missiles, don’t worry because Obama told the Russian president he’d have more “flexibility” to work with that in a second term in a conversation he didn’t realize was on mic. So basically, Obama sees the policies he’s set in his first term as written on an Etch A Sketch, and he just can’t wait to get reelected and shake them.

And why do we have “allies” who find not being able to easily nuke us so threatening? What in the world is that about? Yeah, I always tell my friends, “Please never wear a bulletproof vest. I mean, you’re my friends and all, but I really need to keep open the option of shooting you.”

* So 69% of people are for pulling out of Afghanistan, so it’s starting to look like that’s that. The Taliban harbored al Qaeda after 9/11, and the punishment for that is we fight them until… we got bored of it. Is this going to impress other enemies not to mess with us? They’ll at least know we’ll stick around for a long while before we leave them alone; no one has got to want that.

Maybe we should consider going back to the blow stuff up and leave policy. If we come in quickly, blow up a bunch of stuff, and then immediately leave, we can declare victory. If you blow up a bunch of stuff and get to leave unscathed, it does seem like you won. And if that doesn’t solve our problems, we can always come back, blow up more stuff, and then leave again. That part is easy. It’s the sticking around that’s hard.

* The Supreme Court is in the process of hearing argument about the individual mandate. If the Court does rule that the government can make us buy stuff, I hear they’re going to go ahead and sell the Constitution on eBay since they don’t really need it anymore. I mean, come on; constraint on the power of the federal government? That’s silly.

* So all the people super angry at Zimmerman for shooting Trayvon, why do they think he did that? Do they think he just said to himself, “I feel like shooting a black kid today. Oh, there’s one. I’ll call the police first and give them a heads up before I proceed with my diabolical murder plan.” Apparently, people think Trayvon was just relaxing in his hoodie, eating Skittles, and Zimmerman just proceeded to shoot him for no reason. Of course, according to witnesses, Trayvon was pounding Zimmerman’s head into the pavement.

Anyway, it’s possible to believe Zimmerman was in the wrong here and at the same time give him human motivations. Of course, then you can’t freak out and demagogue the issue. Why does the media give those idiots the time of day?

* Wisdom of the Day from David Burge:

Just to be safe, lefties should boycott all advertisers who are involved in capitalism.

* Obama has embraced the term “Obamacare.” It had been considered derogatory since it combined the phrase “health care” with the name of a failed president, but now Obama is trying to pump it up as a good thing. They even tried to start a hashtag on Twitter — #ILikeObamacare — to gin up support, but the people who used it were mainly making fun of Obamacare (not me, though; I was taught in grade school to not make fun).

Anyway, Supreme Court arguments start today. Most people don’t like Obamacare and want it overturned by the court. Obama blames this on a well-funded campaign against Obamacare, but he shouldn’t shortchange how Obamacare’s own suckitude has contributed to its unpopularity. Now, if the court strikes it down, there goes Obama’s biggest accomplishment of his first term. But if the court upholds it, people will be really angry and motivated against Obama and wanting to make sure he can’t appoint more Supreme Court nominees. So Obama’s strategy for the near future is to hide under a desk.

* Dick Cheney got a heart transplant, but he’s recovering now and doctors are assuring people that, despite his new heart, he’s just as evil as ever. Apparently it was a really tricky operation — mainly because Cheney cradles a shotgun at all times and gets belligerent under anesthetic.

We here at IMAO wish Cheney to have good health and hope he still has a long life ahead — mainly because of how he annoys liberals. In fact, I hope they replace more of him with robot parts so he’ll live forever.

* Obama has named the generation under 40 as “Gen44” — i.e., the generation of the 44th president, Barack Obama. What a sad thing to be defined by. It’s like “Generation Jimmy Carter – Part 2”. I guess my generation needs to find something to define ourselves by before some idiot like Obama does. It’s just I don’t know what? It’s not like we had the Nazis to overcome. I say we be the generation that resurrects dinosaurs and puts rocket launchers on them. I think the future would really respect us for that.

* I saw that video where Obama keeps saying the same thing to multiple allies, and I find it kind of endearing. Here’s the American President so dismissive of smaller countries that he won’t even bother to come up with new material for them. That’s how the American President should be; good job Obama.

* So that shooting in Florida is getting pretty politicized. There’s so little known about the actual details, that I don’t really have much of an opinion about it, but man are the racial demagogue vultures descended on that situation. They just seem really frustrated that Zimmerman isn’t whiter, though. They really want to condemn “white America” and its racial attitudes, but they got that one little setback. Some new outlets are calling him a “white Hispanic” — which I guess is a Hispanic who asks for his own papers.

Some people are also hoping to get some gun control traction off of this, but they were unsuccessful with the last couple tragedies, so I don’t really think much is going to happen anymore. Well, there’s at least one area in America that people have come firmly down on the side of freedom. Hope, people. Hope.

* Wisdom of the Day from Jon Gabriel:

Since everyone’s decided Zimmerman is guilty sans trial, Obama should have a drone take him out.

* Has Rick Santorum gone off the deep end? He’s sort of suggested that Obama is preferable to Romney:

“You win by giving people the opportunity to see a different vision for our country, not someone who’s just going to be a little different than the person in there. If you’re going to be a little different, we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk with what may be the Etch-A-Sketch candidate of the future.”

I blame the Etch-A-Sketch. It’s just ruining campaigns left and right. Maybe it’s made with lead or something.

Anyway, trying to ride the Etch-A-Sketch to victory is about the only option left for Santorum and Newt, but let’s be realistic about our chances here and not say things we can’t take back. We can already see the ads if Romney is the nominee: “Santorum says votes for Obama!” Of course, considering how freaked out some Dems are about Santorum, maybe that will scare them into staying home.

Ooh, this could all be some Rovian strategy. He’s still out there, you know, and plotting. And I bet he owns stock in Etch-A-Sketch.

* Don’t worry about oil prices, because Obama is riding to the rescue with… half a pipeline. Yes, Obama is fast-tracking part of the Keystone pipeline… even though it didn’t really need this approval. And what can you do with a partial pipeline? Absolutely nothing. But that’s Obama’s genius compromise between the vast majority who wants the Keystone pipeline and the fringe minority environmentalist against it: a useless half pipeline. From our useless half-man president. Of course, that leads to the perfect Halloween costume for Obama: half a horse costume. You know which half.

* You know that half billion lost on Solyndra? Obama wants to assure us it was not his program “per se”. Despite him appearing with Solyndra and championing them, he’s trying to claim he wasn’t involved in that giant waste of our money, putting blame on Congress… I guess for stupidly listening to Obama and approving money going to Solyndra. Anyway, there’s Obama’s energy plan: a half-billion in a defunct solar panel maker plus half an oil pipeline. Throw in some broken windmills and maybe part of a track for a high speed train and we’re…

So is there some way I can invest and make money off of the skyrocketing price of oil?

* Joe Biden is going to Florida to start scaring seniors about Medicare, because what other argument do they have left for the Obama presidency. This could work out well, though, because maybe when when Biden is seen wandering around some nursing home doing his usual incoherent babbling, they’ll just keep him there.

* Wisdom of the Day from PoliticalMath:

I can’t wait for the HBO John Edwards movie. Suggested title: “Dame Change”

* ETCH-A-SKETCH!!!!

So a Romney spokesman refers to the Romney campaign as an Etch-a-Sketch that will be reset come the general, and it’s pretty much the biggest thing ever. People have been saying for a while that Romney has no principles, and now one of his own spokesman has come up with the perfect metaphor.

BTW, if you’re in a need of a spokesman and are on a budget, I’m guessing Eric Fehrnstrom will be pretty cheap in the near future.

Now, generally what was stated is common knowledge — you run one campaign in the primary and another in the general. The only problem is it’s seems like Romney has already been running a general election campaign in the primary with no hard right positions… but his general election campaign is going to be even squishier? Maybe a better metaphor for Romney then would be the blobfish.

And I would like to go on record as saying the Etch-a-Sketch sucks. It’s really hard to draw with. I never got why it was popular. The only thing I liked about it was the shaking, but as for shaking, many other things are more fun like bags of cats.

* You love gas prices lately? Thank Energy Secretary Steven Chu who takes all the credit, giving himself an A on controlling gas prices.

So do you think the Obama administration has any idea what’s going on? Best I can figure, they spend most of the day stoned out of their mind and watching Family Guy reruns. That’s the absolute best explanation I can come up with for their behavior.

* Apparently many Marines don’t like President Obama. Whaaaat?! My world has been turned topsy turvy. Why wouldn’t Marines love a useless, condescending twit? We all love him; what’s wrong with them?

* John Hawkins of Right Wing News list both SarahK and I as top follows on Twitter. I know there are a few people left who aren’t on Twitter, but you should consider following me and my wife if you like humor and witty observations throughout the day. If you don’t like that, continue reading this blog which I’m trying to make as devoid of humor possible (except Harvey keeps getting in the way).

* Wisdom of the Day from MJ:

Guns don’t kill people, the shark-launching catapult you build during the 3-day waiting period to acquire your gun does.

* Mitt Romney won the primary in Illinois by a decent margin and should get most of the delegates. So are we much closer to this primary finally being over? I don’t know. And yes, I am actively rooting for Romney because I just so want this primary over, and the other options aren’t good enough to justify drawing this thing out.

I honestly expected Santorum to burn out sooner like every other temporary front runner, but he keeps surprising people. He’s not going to surprise people by winning the primary, though, which is why this is all getting rather pointless.

I just want to focus on how bad Obama is? Can’t we do that soon, please?

* And now I’m moving to the phase where I try to convince myself Romney isn’t that bad. I remember doing that with McCain. It was hard.

But anyway, him telling off a whiny college student looking for free handouts is pretty nice. It would be better if he followed it up with a hippie punch.

And Obama is the candidate if you want free stuff.

TAX PAYER: “I don’t like how the deficit is over a trillions dollars.”
OBAMA: “Oh, well… have some free condoms!”

* Paul Ryan plans to take away even more free stuff with his new budget. Democrats are going to scream about it, but of course what they aren’t going to do is propose a budget of their own. You can’t run up trillion dollar deficits if you’re actually trying to stick to a budget.

And the Democrats are going to say Paul Ryan is going to end Medicare as we know it. But the Democrats are trying to completely destroy it by doing nothing when we’re headed for disaster.

Anyway, don’t know if anything useful will happen, but at least someone is trying.

* Jim Geraghty (who I like to call “Googity” because I always have to Google how to spell his name) made a good point in his Morning Jolt newsletter yesterday (which I can’t link so I’ll link Best of the Web which mentions it) about how we have to approach the attacks on Obama. If everyone is like, “He wants to destroy America!” most voters will just roll their eyes; he’s obviously not considered that extreme by most people since he was elected president. But the attack of him being naive and in over his head is much more acceptable (and also let’s those who voted for him last time save a little face). So Obama isn’t some bad guy; he’s just someone who didn’t understand he’d get his head stuck inside that bucket.

* Wisdom of the Day from Mancow Muller:

NJ was ranked as one of the 5 best states at fighting corruption. Jersey got the rank after govt officials gave researchers a huge bribe.

* In the new movie, Michael Bay is making the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles aliens. Yes, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. And while he’s at it, why doesn’t he make them middle aged. And samurais. And snakes.

One thing will be for certain though with Michael Bay on board: Whether the turtles be aliens or mutants, there will be incomprehensible CGI and lots of explosions.

Anyway, let’s just mark down the fact that Michael Bay is still making movies as another one of the failures of the Obama presidency.

* Congratulations to Obama! He’s now increased the debt more in three years than George W. Bush did his entire eight year presidency. But all that spending was worth it because just look at the great results!

So what exactly is the argument that Obama isn’t a hugely incompetent failure? So far it’s “Look! Over there! A war on women!”

* In a recent poll, two-thirds want the individual mandate in Obamacare to be scrapped. Freedom is pretty popular in this country; who knew? It’s certainly must have taken Obama by surprise. “People don’t want the government to force people to do stuff? Then why’d they even elect me?”

* Biden said something, which is always entertaining. Speaking of Obama deciding to go after Osama bin Laden, Biden said, “You can go back 500 years. You cannot find a more audacious plan.” Yeah, they thought bin Laden was there, so they went in and got him. Pretty audacious. Perhaps most audacious thing ever. And all because of Obama. When he was told they thought they knew where Osama was, they asked Obama, “So should we go get him?” Obama could have answered “No” or “Maybe”, but instead, he went with, “Yes.”

Audacious.

Of course, this is common boasting. At the same fundraiser, Biden said, “During my vice presidency, I swear I’ve eaten more Cheetos than ANYONE EVER HAS IN 500 YEARS!”

* Video has surfaced of Eric Holder saying that they need to “brainwash” people to be anti-gun. Have liberals ever succeeded in brainwashing anyone other than themselves, though? They repeat something enough times, they convince themselves it’s a great idea and everyone supports it, but they seem to have a lot of trouble with the rest of the country such as with Obamacare.

And with Occupy Wall Street, regular washing would be much more effective.

* As gas prices continue to rise, I think I’ve figured out Obama’s energy plan:

PHASE 1: Keep Americans from drilling for more oil.
PHASE 2: Wish really hard.
PHASE 3: Green energy!

BTW, the wishing really hard costs billions of dollars and sometimes sets houses on fire.

* While at the University of Chicago, Romney said, “I don’t see how a young American can vote for a Democrat.” His point was how the Democrats just keep leaving young people more and more debt to pay. It’s a pretty good point; if Obama gets a second term, how many more trillions will be left for the nation’s youth to deal with? Of course, young people vote overwhelming for the Democrats. Why? Because they’re stupid. Ah, stupid people, the backbone of the Democratic Party. The only advantage Republicans have is that stupid people are also often lazy and thus don’t get out to vote.

* Here’s Crowder with a great video on Mixed Martial Arts, unions, New York State, and freedom:

Maybe to solve this, we just need to punch more hippies. Now, does the MMA know anyone good at punching…

* Wisdom of the Day from Fred Thompson:

Carney to reporters: hope you watch new movie about Obama 1st term “many times.” They might. Look at “Titanic” box office numbers.

* The average teen is said to send and receive sixty text messages a day. When did communication devolve into this? We used to be able to talk with actual voice to people at a distance, but now all teens want to do is send short messages. I’m going to try and bring back the telegraph and market it to teens; it seems like the next logical step.

* Puerto Rico had its primary over the weekend, and Mitt Romney won it with 83.4% of the vote. Rick Santorum, who also campaigned in Puerto Rico, came in second with 7.7%. Maybe he would have done better if he hadn’t traveled over there to tell them to speak English.

Anyway, still no end to this primary. Our nominee is going to be Mitt Romney, but we still have to do this dance a while longer. I now hate primaries.

* The Supreme Court will soon hear arguments on Obamacare. This will be a case about whether the government can just arbitrarily force you to buy stuff, i.e., it will be a case on whether the Constitution’s limitation of the federal government means anything at all.

If Obamacare is upheld by the Supreme Court, look on the bright side: We can start thinking up all the things we want to force liberals to buy next time conservatives are in power. You don’t have to bitterly cling to guns and the Bible, but you do have to own them.

* The RNC has released a video on Obama’s War on Women:

Liberals have this idea that if they repeat something enough and hear other liberals in their insular groups repeat the same thing, then they’ve convinced the whole country of something. That’s pretty much what’s gone on with their silly “War on Women” charges; with how they’re trying to equate not being able to force people to buy contraceptives with a ban on contraceptives, I find it better characterized as a “War on Good Faith Arguments.” And I just find it very dishonest with liberals pretend to care about something other than their inane politics.

* Wisdom of the Day from James Lileks:

I grew to hate “Killing” so much I am going to stand by my TV during the 2nd season, turn off the set, and actively NOT WATCH IT.

* So, what’s everyone sense of things for the 2012 presidential election? Do you think Obama will be reelected, or do you think the fact that everyone knows he’s not very good at being president — or any sort of leader — will be too much of a hindrance for him?

In my new column for PJ Media, I explain how Obama is helping us get a stronger economy.

People think that when the economy is suffering, you need to be nice to it and help it. Maybe hug it when it cries. Obama knows you have to resist that urge. When the economy comes to him broken and bloody, pleading for help, he says to it, “You think things are bad now?” Then he puts his foot on the economy’s throat and says, “Now let’s see you survive this!” And then he laughs at it maniacally to make it mad so it will fight back.

* Obama compared the GOP to the people who told Columbus the earth is flat. I.e., he’s now comparing the GOP to made up straw men of a different era. Actually, the people who told Columbus not to go were saying Columbus did his calculations wrong and the world was wider than he thought so there was no way he’d be able to sail to India. So the people against Columbus were the ones correctly questioning his math… which is a good analogy for the GOP versus Obama. But if Obama ignores the GOP, I doubt he’s going to do anything as good as accidentally discover a new continent. We might discover new numbers when our debt keeps increasing, though.

* Young Americans care less about the environment now. I guess after decades of saying the world is going to end in ten years, people eventually stop listening. It’s like those preachers who keep predicting the Apocalypse and then keep revising it. I mean, this environmental doomsday stuff was scary when I was a kid, but we’re all kind of wise to it by now.

Yay next generation! Now pull your pants up.

* It’s the Paul Ryan campaign video!

Well, I guess a preview for his budget plan. Man, wouldn’t it be nice to have someone like him in the presidential race we could actually get excited about. Then again, getting excited about politicians is just the path the heartbreak. Maybe it’s better to have someone like Romney who we’re extremely suspicious of from the beginning.

* Crowder has a new video! Well, a preview of his video coming out Monday about mixed martial arts and New York:

* And, because it’s Friday, here’s every face punch in Roadhouse.

Now there’s a movie that should get a new modern remake. With even more punching!

* Having another one of those days I just can’t think of anything worth blogging about. The primary is still pointlessly going on. Obama is still not very good at being president. I need something new to happen as I’m getting bored with politics. Maybe like a fist fight in the Capitol or something. That would be nice if all this partisan conflict ended up in a full out fight. You’d have some Democrat pull out a switchblade and scream, “You want to cut government? I’ll cut you!” And then a Tea Party member would hit him in the face with the butt of a replica musket. Politics just needs more action like that.

* In other news, Europe is dying. A big part of that is demographics; they’re just not producing enough young people to sustain their countries. I’m starting to think that while contraception may have been great for women’s lib, it’s been horrible for society at large. There was the subsequent skyrocketing of out of wedlock births — probably from changing attitudes on sex — and now there’s all these countries with below replacement rate birth rates. Too many old people, not enough young people, and the countries are shriveling up. Maybe some of this is because we tend to look at babies as inconvenient now instead of… well… the whole point of society. Maybe we shouldn’t have so much choice about when to have babies, because we’re kind of stupid about it.

* So a Democrat Party office in Florida has an American flag where the stars are replaced by the face of Obama. So instead of the usual “Yay America!” feeling you get when seeing the flag, you get this feeling its judging you as a bitter clinger. Still, it’s a nice compromise from Democrats; something about the American flag has always bugged them, and they’re just trying to make it so they can enjoy it like we do.

* Wisdom of the Day from Kara:

If liberals want to destroy The Rush Limbaugh Show, they should lobby for Dems to subsidize it.

* And that’s all I got today. I’ve been blogging for nearly a decade now; one of these day I’ll get good at it.

* Well, no Newt comeback. Also, not a great night for Romney… or anyone hoping this primary will be over soon. Mathematically, it’s still hard to see how anyone other than Romney wins this (though he came in third in Alabama and Mississippi, it was a close third and he actually won the night in delegates when you add in Hawaii and American Samoa), but I guess we’ll continue on until the convention. Grah!

Come on! I just want to focus on how much I don’t like Obama! Why can’t we end this? Why?!

* The CBO has upped the estimate for the cost of Obamacare to $1.76 trillion over ten years. So not only did we get this health care plan forced on us that no one wants, but it’s twice as expensive as previously estimated. I swear I could completely ruin health care for like an eighth of that cost, a lot of it through cheap sabotage. But the Obama philosophy is if you’re going to do something wrong, it should at least cost a trillion dollars to do it.

Don’t worry, though; he’ll fix everything with another super expensive “stimulus” none of us want.

* Oh no, now Science! has turned on liberals. A scientific (Science!) study says that liberals are much less tolerant of opposing viewpoints. That’s pretty obvious to anyone who has met a liberal, but now Science! says its true which means it can’t be disputed. So what will liberals do now that Science! is their enemy? Will they turn against it? You don’t want to make Science! mad; it can fight back with lasers and meteors and dinosaurs and other Science! things.

* After 244 years, Encyclopedia Britannica is going to stop putting out a print edition of its Encyclopedia. Apparently people aren’t willing anymore to spend thousands of dollars on a giant print edition when they can get more up to date information for free online. Also, Wikipedia has way more information than Britannica could ever fit in it’s print edition; I don’t remember Encyclopedia Britannica having a separate, extensive article for each episode of Firefly. Also, clicking on a link is much easier than having to keep searching between a couple dozen different books. Also, again, free versus super expensive.

Anyway, end of an era, but that’s progress. So now Britannica will focus on… selling pencils maybe? Who knows; the encyclopedia was sort of their whole reason for existence. Maybe they should try cooking a really good cheeseburger; Five Guys has done great for itself.

* Wisdom of the Day from Ken Jennings:

Antarctica was awesome, btw. So weird that a century ago nobody had even been to the South Pole and now there are like 100 Starbucks there.

* Here’s Sunny on Critical Race Theory. Vroom vroom! (or are we talking a different kind of race?)