In the past few weeks, watchers of the Supreme Court noted several seemingly ridiculous decisions that were all-out power grabs by the top court in the land:

• They determined that Congress cannot make immigration laws, nor can the Executive branch enforce them (Dada v. Mukasey)
• They determined that the Executive branch cannot perform its Constitutionally-mandated job of making war, by saying that enemy combatants are afforded the same rights as United States citizens (Boumediene v. Bush)
• They determined that states do not have the right to determine the use the death penalty against people convicted of child rape (Kennedy v. Louisiana)

WASHINGTON (AP) - Silent on central questions of gun control for two centuries, the Supreme Court found its voice Thursday in a decision affirming the right to have guns for self-defense in the home and addressing a constitutional riddle almost as old as the republic over what it means to say the people may keep and bear arms.

The court’s 5-4 ruling struck down the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns and imperiled similar prohibitions in other cities, Chicago and San Francisco among them. Federal gun restrictions, however, were expected to remain largely intact.

I’m paraphrasing, but that’s basically what he said at a closed-door fundraiser speech to political fat cats in California:

You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothings replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.

And its not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Observations:

1. 25 years is a long time to be out of work. Classify this as an exaggeration in the extreme.
2. All red-blooded Americans cling to guns. Guns keep us free. Guns founded this country. Stereotyping small-town America as “clinging to guns” is simply ignorant. (This also clearly shows Barack’s anti-gun bias.)
3. For someone who defended his pastor’s racist, bigoted statements so vehemently, Barack sure is being hypocritical of those who are strong in their faith. Or is it just because these people don’t believe the same way you do, Barack?
4. So Barack, you’re calling all small-town Americans racist bigots? 
5. Since this was at a closed-door fundraiser, where reporters weren’t allowed to be, this is quite telling about who Obama really is, and what he really thinks about the American public, not just what he says in front of the cameras and microphones.

It sounds like Barack is the one who is bitter and frustrated by those who are different from him.

Barack, we’re bitter because of people like you. Not because of the color of your skin, but because of your elitist attitude and your socialist lies.

We’re bitter because you want to take our guns.

We’re bitter because your policies — and the policies of other like-minded politicians from both parties – have ruined this country by thinking that you know better than the common American what’s good for us.

We’re bitter because you — and politicians like you — have created a situation where gas prices are near $3.50 a gallon, because you won’t let us drill for our own oil, won’t let us build new refineries, mandate 30 different blends, and then tax the very fuel of our economy.

We’re bitter because you — and politicians like you from both parties – have artificially divided this country.

We’re bitter because you — and politicians like you from both parties – have taken our liberties.

We’re bitter because you — and politicians like you from both parties – have betrayed our trust.

We’re bitter because you — and politicians like you from both parties – have enacted policies to “fix” problems that don’t exist in the first place, then introduce new policies to “fix” the problems you yourselves have created.

We’re bitter because you — and politicians like you from both parties – have perpetuated the racial divide for your own political gains.

We’re bitter because you — and politicians like you from both parties – are bad-mouthing America and Americans.

And we’re sick of it. All of it. And we’re sick of you. All of you.

Same old story: a paper with known animosity toward the United States publishes a story about a study done by a British company that says that Britain is "more stable and prosperous" than the United States:

The United Kingdom has been ranked as one of the most stable and prosperous countries in the world, beating the United States, France and even Switzerland in a global assessment of every nation’s achievements and standards.

A one-year investigation and analysis of 235 countries and dependent territories has put the UK joint seventh in the premier league of nations. The top ten comprise also the Vatican, Sweden, Luxembourg, Monaco, Gibraltar, San Marino, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands and the Irish Republic.

[...]

Mr Le Mière said that the US had fallen down the scale, although it still scored an average of 93 out of 100, partly because of the proliferation of small arms owned by Americans and the threat to the population posed by the flow of drugs from across the Mexican border.

Actually, the "proliferation of small arms" should have bumped us up higher on the list. But then again, Mr Le Mière, the U.N., and the Times Online believe — like all good socialists — that the populace should be disarmed. 

Now the threat by illegal immigration and drugs… that is something we can agree with.