As a prelude to his commentary about the administration's response to the uprisings in the Arab world, Christopher Hitchens (Slate) asks, "Is Barack Obama secretly Swiss?".

Coming on the heels of how the "stimulus" and healthcare "reform" bills were written and passed into law, last year's election revealed that huge numbers of Americans have figured out Obama's idea of change means transforming Washington into a place that's "beyond Boss Tweed" — because to fuel his repulsive machine, the political thug of old never even dreamed of spending and borrowing Obama style.

If there's anything we know about liberals it's this: They can't discuss anything without exalting themselves as moral and intellectual paragons while sliming their opponents as depraved troglodytes.

News coverage of the demonstrations in Egypt has put the liberal vision of "multiculturalism" on full display — thanks to the drivel spewed by dogmatic ostriches who, in reality, parrot the dangerous, patently absurd notion that the moment 19% of Egypt's 60 million people gained a bit of access to the Internet, poof, the threat posed by the country's Islamist crazies evaporated.

How perceptive and prescient was Allan Bloom's 1987 Closing of the American Mind, a book that pulled back the curtain on liberal "intellects" whose minds are so tightly shut they will admit not one ray of light from sources outside the sphere of liberal orthodoxy?

There is something rotten in the state of America: . . . Accounting for inflation, wages earned by ordinary American families have been stagnant for the last decade. Moreover, there's not much these families can do to increase their incomes. As Chris Farrell (Bloomberg/Businessweek) points out, compared to 38% in 1968, 70% of married women ages 25 to 54 with children now work outside the home, with both breadwinners putting in about 20% more time on the job than their parents did.

Although "the economy" was the overriding issue during this year's election, the controversy regarding fair trade vs. free trade surprisingly wasn't a big deal.

It may seem foolishly repetitive to point out that in reacting to Tuesday's election, liberals once again put the lie to their self-professed intellectuality.

After he was elected in 2000, closet neo-con George Bush and his inkless veto pen sat in the Oval Office for eight years, presiding over a national debt that grew from 5.7 to $10.6 trillion, an increase of 85% while GDP grew by 46%.

Leftists, whose number includes American liberals, are notorious for boasting they base their every act upon sweet reason.