In related news, Satan appeared on planet Earth today and credited himself with the founding of Christianity.

Are you freaking kidding me?

I am very optimistic about — about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You’re going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You’re going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government.

I spent — I’ve been there 17 times now. I go about every two months — three months. I know every one of the major players in all the segments of that society. It’s impressed me. I’ve been impressed how they have been deciding to use the political process rather than guns to settle their differences.

Biden and Obama opposed every single aspect of the Iraq War.

Biden and Obama opposed and criticized the Iraq surge.

Biden and Obama farmed every political talking point they could find to oppose the Bush Administration on Iraq.

Biden and Obama continue to bash their predecessors every chance they get.

And now they want to take credit for the success in Iraq???

Oh, but wait!

Sarah Palin has something written on her hand!!!!

Remember all the times the tea party people were denounced as astroturf by the left, the media and members of the Obama Administration? Of course, if you’ve been around, you know that it’s just a tactic frequently used by the left – accuse your opponents of whatever you’re doing.

Sabrina Eaton of the Plain Dealer in Cleveland made a pretty good catch today. It seems there are a lot of people named Ellie Light in the United States. Not only do they have the same name, but they live in different places all over the country and – would you believe it – they all wrote nearly identical letters to newspapers in various cities.

What a coincidence…

In recent weeks, Light has published virtually identical “Letters to the Editor” in support of President Barack Obama in more than a dozen newspapers.Every letter claimed a different residence for Light that happened to be in the newspaper’s circulation area.

“It’s time for Americans to realize that governing is hard work, and that a president can’t just wave a magic wand and fix everything,” said a letter from alleged Philadelphian Ellie Light, that was published in the Jan. 19 edition of The Philadelphia Daily News.

A letter from Light in the Jan. 20 edition of the SanFrancisco Examiner concluded with an identical sentence, but with an address for Light all the way across the country in Daly City, California.

Variations of Light’s letter ran in Ohio’s Mansfield News Journal. on Jan. 13, with Light claiming an address in Mansfield; in New Mexico’s Ruidoso News on Jan. 12, claiming an address in Three Rivers; in South Carolina’s The Sun News on Jan. 18, claiming an address in Myrtle Beach; and in the Daily News Leader of Staunton, Virginia on Jan. 15, claiming an address in Waynesboro. Her publications list includes other papers in Ohio, West Virginia, Maine, Michigan, Iowa, Pennsylvania, and California all claiming separate addresses.

So extensive was this astroturf campaign, they even duped Ben Smith of The Politico who published the letter from Ellie Light and writes today:

A couple of weeks ago I published an articulate, unsolicited email from, as I wrote, “someone named Ellie Light.”

It was one of several such e-mails I’d gotten from a Yahoo account under that name, and the author didn’t respond to a request for more information. That which didn’t really bother me — the author wasn’t making any factual claims, or personal ones, just an argument.

But the Plain Dealer’s Sabrina Eaton notes something a bit more troubling, and dishonest.

Gee. Ya think?

The only question now is who wrote the letters? KOS kids or someone in the Obama Administration?

Be sure to read updates 1 and 2 at the bottom.

The Plum Line reports that they’ve heard from voters in Cambridge, MA that they were given ballots that already had the bubble filled in next to Scott Brown’s name.

Note to readers: Please let me know what you’re seeing in the field today in Massachusetts.

A software engineer in Cambridge says he was handed a fishy ballot at the polling station in a local firehouse — it already had the bubble next to Scott Brown’s name filled in. But he doesn’t think it likely that it was fraud.

“Scott Brown’s bubble was already filled in,” the software engineer, Aaron Kemp, 28, tells me by phone. “I handed it back to them and asked, `Can I have a clean ballot, please?’”

CORRECTION: I initially, thought this story was outright bunk because MA ballots in towns I’ve lived in look like the one below, but as you’ll see in the comments section, someone has produced an image of a ballot with a bubble.  See the update at the bottom of this post. I was wrong, I admit it.

UPDATE: A few readers comment that their ballots have “bubbles.” I am willing to concede that I haven’t seen every ballot in the state of MA, but I have been voting here for years. For what it’s worth, every ballot I have ever filled out looked like the one above. One sharp reader shares this:

UPDATE 2: This is all a bunch of crap after all. It’s a desperate tactic being used by the Coakley campaign. Jim Geraghty at National Review produces a Coakley document dated yesterday, which highlights these accusations.

Moving on…

Beautiful and just…

Unlike Chris Matthews of MSNBC, I have actually been to a Tea Party and believe it or not, there were plenty of people in attendance who were not white.

But that fact doesn’t fit the agenda being pushed by Chris Matthews and MSNBC. Facts get in the way when you’re trying to convince people that the Tea Party movement is the rebirth of the KKK.

Where are the black people at MSNBC, Chris? I guess racial diversity doesn’t apply at MSNBC, where the news team is as white as the driven snow.

Again, facts and blatant hypocrisy can’t get in the way of pushing liberal propaganda. So enjoy the following video which should make your blood boil if you’re an American who loves your liberty, regardless of your racial background.

Also notice how many times Matthews uses the word “teabaggers.” Accident? Probably not.

Hat tip to NewsBusters.

That would be Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D) of Rhode Island. He suggested on the senate floor, that this is the only reason people oppose ObamaCare. You know… 61% of the American people.

“They are desperate to break this president. They have ardent supporters who are nearly hysterical at the very election of President Barack Obama. The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Barack Obama should exist. That is one powerful reason. It is not the only one.”

So bad that lefty journalist Jack Cafferty of CNN is asking his readers “What Can President Obama Learn From Sarah Palin?”

“With President Obama now below 50 percent approval for the first time, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd suggests the president could learn “a thing or three” from Sarah Palin.”

“Dowd writes that with the former V-P candidate back on the trail for her book tour, she clearly hasn’t boned up on anything and “she still has that Yoda-like syntax.”

“Meanwhile – it’s clear Sarah Palin is saying something people want to hear. She sold 300,000 copies of her memoir on the day of its release – one of the best openings ever for a nonfiction book, easily topping people like Hillary Clinton.”

“As for President Obama – the Gallup Daily Tracking poll puts his approval rating at 49 percent – the first time he’s dropped below 50 percent since taking office.”

“Here’s my question to you: What can President Obama learn from Sarah Palin?”

Here are a few of the choice quotes Jack Cafferty featured on the air and my responses:

Audrey from British Columbia:
He could learn that by being ignorant, vapid, divisive and stupid that the media will follow you around and make out that you are bigger and better than you really are. Sarah Palin is a “media phenom” and nothing else – just the fact that you have this question on your program should state the obvious to you.

ME:
You’re right Audrey. It’s too bad that the media doesn’t follow Obama around making him out to be bigger than he is. President Obama certainly isn’t a “media phenom.”

Chad from Alaska:
How to be a quitter in the middle of a term.

ME:
Good point Chad. At least Obama finished a single term as a US Senator before running for president. Oh wait.. He didn’t do that, did he?

Lisa says:
How to make bumper sticker catch-phrases sound like policy to 26% of the nation.

ME:
Lisa, do you mean empty catch-phrases like “Yes We Can?”

Thomas from Texas:
Not to wear shorts on the cover of news magazines if you are to be taken seriously as a politician.

ME:
Thomas, did no one at CNN tell you that Sarah Palin didn’t choose to have that photo on the cover of Newsweek? No, of course they didn’t.

Just a reminder… CNN is in last place among cable news networks.

Any wonder why?

The Democrat talking point of the day is that they aren’t afraid of Kalid Sheikh Mohammed like all the wimpy conservatives who don’t want him tried in New York. Another classic example of liberals putting politics above national security.

Attorney General Eric Holder, defending his Obama’s decision to try KSM in New York said:

“I’m not scared of what Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has to say at trial and no one else needs to be afraid either,” Holder said. “We need not cower in the face of this enemy.”

Right on cue, liberal venom spewer Markos Moulitsas followed up with:

“American liberals are tough on terrorists and secure in their knowledge that the Sept. 11 conspirators are guilty of mass murder. American conservatives are timid cowards who fear that the U.S. government can’t actually prove that the Sept. 11 killers committed their heinous crimes.”

How is it cowardly to want KSM tried in a military tribunal and executed?

What’s really cowardly is that liberals can only advance their agenda through back doors in the dark of night since their ideas never survive the forum of public scrutiny.

What Holder, KOS, and company really want is a referendum on Bush, Cheney and company.

They can’t do it out in the open so they’re sacrificing national security to sneak it in through the back door and hoping no one notices.

That, my friends, is cowardice.

ObamaCare has nothing to do with health care. ObamaCare has nothing to do with helping people. ObamaCare has nothing to do with health insurance. ObamaCare has nothing to do with humanitarianism. ObamaCare has nothing to do with compassion. ObamaCare has nothing to do with charity.

ObamaCare is about politics.

ObamaCare is about creating a permanent Democrat majority. Period.

No more checks, no more balances.

Leave your liberty at the door.

That’s all folks.

Hang onto your hats, Sarah Palin fans. People Magazine is reporting that Governor Palin is “FINALLY” sitting down with Oprah Winfrey after “turning down” an opportunity to be on Oprah last fall. Why? Because she just wants to sell her book…

Their headline?

Sarah Palin “FINALLY” to Appear on Oprah

“Oh, what a difference a multimillion-dollar book deal makes.”

“About a year after Sarah Palin famously turned down a campaign season appearance with talk show host – and major Barack Obama supporter – Oprah Winfrey, the former GOP vice presidential candidate has agreed to take her turn on the couch.”

That’s funny.

The way I remember it,  Oprah REFUSED to have Sarah Palin on her show…

“Are you kidding me? The strongest and most popular voice for women in this country is refusing to interview the first woman nominated to be vice president in 24 years?”

Here’s a screen capture you can click to open, just in case the editors of People Magazine decide to scrub their site when they suddenly get over their collective amnesia…

Dear Editors of People Magazine: We’ll be watching closely for your reaction when President Obama “FINALLY” has the stones to sit down with Chris Wallace of FOX News.

Until then, you might want to start reading Drudge.

I’m just sayin’…