Random (but high quality) reading for a Wednesday afternoon

I don’t have a big post in mind, but I read so much interesting stuff that I want to pass onto you:

I’ve been claiming for more than a year that Obama is a malignant narcissist.  Robyn of Berkeley, a recovering liberal and a mental health specialist, thinks so too.

When even the biggest fans of the abstract idea of nationalized health care turn against the plan that’s actually in the works, you know you’ve got trouble.  Interestingly, when I posted this on my “real me” facebook, someone came back with the usual “let’s cut defense spending” trope.  How does one explain to people that nationalized health care doesn’t work if you have no nation left to keep healthy?  And indeed, here is a lovely reminder of why, until the advent of expensive modern medicine, and the longevity that came with it, health care really wasn’t a big government issue.

Here’s a nice matched set:  The more Obama talks, the less people listen.  Could it be because people are realizing that every time he talks, he adds a new lie to his repertoire?

Just a reminder that Obama, typical for a statist, really, really, really wants to shut up his opposition — and he’s installed the “Diversity Chief” (lovely Orwellian title, there) to do it.  And another reminder of what life looks like in countries, even sophisticated first world countries with which we have a lot in common, that don’t value free speech as we do.

Scroll down a little, and you’ll see a funny Jon Stewart video poking fun at the MSM for missing the whole ACORN story.  Michelle Malkin goes into great detail about just how much the MSM missed — and it was deliberate, not accidental. No wonder John Stossel is looking for greener pastures.

In an impassioned post, Elizabeth Scalia (aka The Anchoress) blows the whistle on the real skin-color-based racism that permeates America’s political class — and if you guess that  lives on the conservative side of the political line, you’d be very, very wrong.

As someone who is truly passionate about Flemish painting in the years between 1300 and 1700, there was something bizarrely poignant about this picture of camels grazing before a traditional Dutch sky-line.

A picture you’ll really want to see.  Obama is proving to be The One.  He’s the one who finally united the notoriously fragmented Israeli political scheme, and he’s the one who galvanized that notoriously torporous group — ordinary conservatives.