h/t StellaP (TWS) Unconfirmed reports are circulating that former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has fallen into a coma in Sharm al-Sheikh. The independent Egyptian daily Al Masry Al Youm’s English-language website says that Mubarak fainted twice during his final speech Thursday night. The report also seems to confirm long-time speculation that it was Egyptian first lady Suzanne Mubarak who was eager to see her son Gamal succeed as president. “You got me into this, you and your mother,” Mubarak reportedly told Gamal. “You have ruined my history in Egypt.”  (more…)

No that ain’t a headline from any reputable media outlet.  It’s all mine.  I just got done reading a bunch of articles about the proposed budget.   Unicorn farts… rainbow butterflies…. pancakes in a canoe…. elephants wearing cherry sneakers…, all that makes about as much fiscal sense as this budget.   Which is exactly ZERO.  Nada, Zippo, Zylch, Nyet.  (Here is one from Fox) President Obama’s budget was released Monday, and notably absent were most of recommendations from the deficit commission that he created via an executive order. 
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Just less obvious and perhaps more difficult to find….. (CNN) — Graciousness can pay priceless dividends; And it doesn’t cost a thing.  You may have heard the story about what happened between White House adviser Valerie Jarrett and Four-star Army Gen. Peter Chiarelli at a recent Washington dinner.  (more…)

Told ya so….. (AMAY – English) In a statement on Monday, Egypt’s largest opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, said it would establish itself as a political party once the Constitution has been amended to allow it to do so. The group asserted its confidence that Egypt’s Supreme Council of Armed Forces would meet all its promises pledged in its fifth statement to the nation on Sunday. (more…)

Hillary Clinton Announces Support For Iranian Protesters…WASHINGTON (AP) – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has expressed support for the tens of thousands of protesters in Iran’s capital, saying they “deserve to have the same rights that they saw being played out in Egypt and are part of their own birthright.”   (more…)

(Daily Mail) — It is an assembly hall of the sort found in any ordinary school. Boys aged 11 and upwards sit cross-legged on the floor in straight rows. They face the front of the room and listen carefully. But this is no ordinary assembly. Holding the children’s attention is a man in Islamic dress wearing a skullcap and stroking his long dark beard as he talks. ‘You’re not like the non-Muslims out there,’ the teacher says, gesturing towards the window. (more…)

Trying to convince King Abdullah that we weally, weally,…. I mean double dog promise – pinkie swear – we, weally, weally can be trusted…..  honest !! (VOA) — The top U.S. military officer will be in Jordan and Israel beginning Sunday to reassure the key allies of U.S. support following the ouster of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen is scheduled to go to Amman to meet with his military counterpart and King Abdullah.  (more…)

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(Washington Times) Rep. Ron Paul, Texas Republican, won the 2011 Washington Times/CPAC Straw Poll of 3,742 activists, the chairman of the Conservative Political Action Conference, the huge annual gathering of conservatives, announced Saturday. The presidential preference poll, sponsored this year for the first time by The Times, is seen as one of the earliest tests of grassroots popularity among the party’s dominant conservative wing, and Mr. Paul, who ran unsuccessfully for the nomination in 2008, traditionally has done well in the CPAC voting.  (more…)

h/t WeeWeed… (CFP) The Human Stain, Philip Roth’s seminal novel regarding Political Correctness, racism, and the insipid hypocrisy of leftist morality, is a fitting backdrop to Barack Obama’s improbable presidency. In the story, Professor Coleman Silk, a half-Black Jewish professor, posing as a White man, is taken down by the mechanical application of PC rules to an accidental insult he gave to two African-Americans.  (more…)