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Jan Moir asks in the Telegraph, Who Does Hillary Think She's Fooling?

Only a few days have passed since Hillary Clinton announced she is running for president, but already it is clear that much forbearance will be required from us all in the long months ahead. This is not just because Mrs Clinton has started wearing ominous pastels and smiling a lot, or appeared to enjoy a joke apparently about her husband's sexcapades in the White House — although these things do, of course, matter. No, what is so lowering about Hillary and her rush for power is the merciless, unapologetic, chisel-eyed way she has pursued her presidential ambitions over the past few years, and her blatant attempt to make over her naturally acrid persona into something that American voters might find palatable.

Even from an ocean away it makes painful viewing, like watching someone trying to fold a balloon into a matchbox, or form a rounded human being out of leftover ectoplasm and a Martha Stewart wig.

Read the whole thing.

The truth is that a good portion of the electorate was, politically speaking, just born yesterday.  Another fresh-faced batch turns 18 every day.  In January 2001, when Clinton left the White House, they were only 12 years old. 

To the naive and the foolish, Hillary Clinton is whatever she pretends to be.

Evil Interrupted

They is no evil they will not commit.

The Religion of Global Warming

James Taranto notes something odd about complaints that the Bush Administration ever dared to question the "science of global warming":

The Associated Press reports on an astonishing statement from Rep. Henry Waxman:

The Democratic chairman of a House panel examining the government's response to climate change said Tuesday there is evidence that senior Bush administration officials sought repeatedly "to mislead the public by injecting doubt into the science of global warming."

Of course doubt is the very essence of the scientific method. If there's no room in "the science of global warming" for doubt, it isn't science at all, but a sort of secular religious belief.

Yesterday's DrudgeReport in particular reflected an absurd full-court press on the "global warming" front, and this AP story was one of the stories Drudge pushed to the top of the page.   Another article pushed by Drudge implied that we have 10 years left to prevent disaster.  (I'm marking my calendar now; let's check back on January 31, 2017, shall we?)  It's reaching fever pitch, to the point where even conventional lightbulbs are at risk.

That raises a good question:

How many global warming fanatics does it take to change a lightbulb?

None.  We'll just sit in the dark and wait for our doom.

The Lesson Hillary Has Yet to Learn

Lee Harris points out at TCS Daily that there is an important lesson about the nature of the presidency and the demands of history that Hillary Clinton has yet to learn.

Or Maybe It Was Colonel Mustard With a Lead Pipe in the Conservatory

Finally, 9/11 conspiracy theorists get the level of respect they deserve!

I Feel More Peaceful Already

Bush Declares Weapons Aimed At Iran Meant For Peaceful Purposes