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Incredible
The test drew a crescendo of international condemnation Tuesday, with President Obama calling it a “highly provocative act” that demands “swift and credible action by the international community” against North Korea. (NYT, 2/12/2013)

President Obama added that he was organizing a task force to be headed by Vice-President Biden with the goal of developing recommendations on what the heck to do about North Korea to be delivered within three weeks.


The Warm Embrace of Government
On a central philosophical question of the day — the size and scope of the federal government — a clear majority of young people embraces President Obama’s notion that it can be a constructive force, a point he intends to make in his State of the Union address on Tuesday. (NYT, 2/10/2013)

Well of course the young believe in government. They have yet to feel its oppressive hand. High unemployment among the young and newly graduated has masked for some the seminal moment that most experience when they get out of school, find work and get that first paycheck: 

How much am I paying in taxes? 

Young entrepreneurs will eventually learn what it means to navigate the regulatory hurdles imposed by an interested government. And other young will learn about how the protections put in place for the marginal members of society are abused by free-loaders. Like the 20 year-old described to us recently by a doctor friend who was shopping for a disability diagnosis in order to get yet another government check.

Yes, the young will eventually learn.


Covering Tracks
Menendez is facing a Senate ethics investigation of two free trips he took in 2010 aboard the private plane of a donor, Salomon Melgen, to a luxury resort in the Dominican Republic. After news of the jaunts became public recently, Menendez reimbursed Melgen $58,500. The senator and his various political entities have received almost $50,000 from Melgen and his family, who also gave $700,000 to a super PAC created to elect Senate Democrats. (Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 2/11/2013)

We finally have an Obama Doctrine. It is not quite the one outlined in various major speeches — Cairo, Berlin or the Greco-Roman one delivered at the 2008 Democratic National Convention — but one that has been ingloriously revealed through news leaks and virtually coerced congressional testimony regarding Syria: In a pinch, look the other way. (Richard Cohen, Washington Post, 2/11/2013)

The way we see it, the Liberal media covered for Obama during his first term. Policy failures were attributable to the continuing effects of Bush's mistakes. Any criticism they directed toward Obama was from the Left.  (He hasn't been progressive enough!) During the election they turned mute directing their attention to whether Mitt Romney paid enough taxes or pillaged his way through corporate America. Now with Obama safely re-elected they are free to report occasionally on Democrat peccadilloes or Obama's policy inconsistencies, thus proving their journalistic integrity.