Two excellent reads to start your day *UPDATED*

GM’s Place discusses the way in which the Obama Administration is using a splitting technique that’s pretty classic for patients with Borderline Personality Disorders.

Chicago Boyz looks at the way that, counterintuitively for those who aren’t paying attention, liberal orders suddenly collapse, turning authoritarian regimes when they fail to fulfill basic citizen needs.  (Hat tip:  Ymarsakar)

UPDATE:  Make that three excellent reads by adding Conrad Black’s article destroying liberal mythology about late 20th Century presidents.

UPDATE II:  Can’t resist a fourth, which is a rundown of Obama’s ever lengthening, and aggressively acted upon, enemies list — as if we need a reminder that he is a thin-skinned man who knows how to carry a grudge.

UPDATE III:  Let’s go for five:  Charles Johnson may have started a war, but Robert Spencer isn’t taking it lying down.