Consumer prices in U.S. rose in February as gasoline jumped. The CPI climbed 0.4% but the “core measure” which excludes “volatile” food and energy, climber 0.1%. “Federal Reserve policy makers say the advance in fuel costs will be temporary…” “Temporary” as in “Obama can’t be president forever.”

Nerf: The gateway gun? He’s baaack… Obama and Jeremiah Wright’s favorite priest, Michael Pfleger, is on the bore-path again, complaining about K-mart selling Easter baskets with Nerf dart-shooters in them. In his Wright-thinking mind, shooting soft darts leads to harder stuff. He’s got a point. Pfleger probably wouldn’t be such a jerk today if he spent less time in the past hanging out with the likes of Obama, Wright, Ayers et al. Moral: steer kids clear of gateway Marxists.

Study: sea levels rising; storms could wipe out Jersey Shore. Oh noes, the global warming monster is gonna flood the Joisey Shore! The commenters are clearly split on the matter: half seem to think the “study” is total bullcrap, the other half think wiping out the Jersey Shore is a good idea. Tough crowd.

Exodus: California tax revenue plunges by 22% in Feb. The state motto is “Eureka”, Greek for “I have found it.” We note the irony of a once-great but now fiscally foundering state using such a word which arose from a once-great but now fiscally foundering nation, and suggest henceforth California deem its motto to be derived from Eureka, the vacuum cleaner because its state gubbermint sucks (in more ways than one.)

U.S. Economy needs more fiscal stimulus: Christina Romer defends Keynesian economics. More hair of the dog-poop that bit us? Sure, the first one did nothing so another dose should do twice as much. “Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.” -Thomas Sowell

Murder, Incorporated: Bruce Springsteen goes all-in with #OWS. Another wealthy rock-star member of the 1% beclowns himself, releases album of music to off fat-cats by. Seriously, do all these big-bucks entertainment industry blowhards really believe they’re part of the paper-sack lunch crowd or are they just manipulating the situation to sell more of their crappy movies/music/books or whatever? Is anyone stupid enough to be fooled by their charade?

More expensive gas pushes up US wholesale prices. But “core inflation was tame.” What’s “core inflation”? Why, the cost of stuff you buy once a year, if that much. But, as the astute partisan hack at the WaPo said, paying a little mor for gas is a problem only for long distance commuters…. as well as people who like to eat, wear clothes, heat their homes, etc, etc.

UN consultant: Ban Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” “Dante’s Divine Comedy should be banned from Italian schools as a racist and Islamophobic text rather than esteemed as one of the greatest achievements of Western poetry, according to a human rights organization that acts as a consultant for the UN.” If Dante were alive today, the hell he’d be writing about is the UN.

Obama’s fix for gas prices: “Set up a task force to look into speculation.” In this case, maybe a better term would be “task farce.” Nothing like low comedy in high places when you’re scrounging behind the couch cushions for gas money.

Politico editor John Harris: Voters are stupid. The self-important media egotists must be sniffing the stench of an Obama defeat in the wind; why else would they start insulting the voters in March? Mr. Harris, right back at ya, chum(p).

Cops: woman, 22, battered live-in boyfriend, 74. Yep, they’re a couple, and a lovely couple too. For his own part, the boyfriend was arrested four months ago for stealing from a person over the age of 65, as well as exploiting an elderly person. He’s currently free on $20,000 bond and due in court on March 28.

Obama loses “the real war.” Back in 2007 and 2008, Senator Barack Obama referred to Afghanistan as the “real war” while Iraq was a diversion. As president, he is on his way to losing both of them. Yeah, but he’s winning that GOP “war on women”, he manufactured, ain’t he? Maybe not.

Biden, at a $10K per couple fundraiser, tells wealthy Democrats that Republicans “don’t know what it means to be middle class.” Sure, the Democrats know the middle class – those are the people riding the busses the Dems crash their Mercedes into before and after their big-bucks fundraisers.

Surprise! Obama has a secret plan to deal with a catastrophic U.S. debt crisis! Yes, even though they have no long-term plan to deal with the debt they’re hard at work exploding, they do have a plan to deal with a sudden debt crisis that nobody saw coming in spite of the fact that everyone sees it coming. And it more than likely relies on raising taxes! Who coulda predicted that?

Muslim journalist defends surveillance by NYPD, says some Muslims “use religion as cover.” She reveals a Koran whose Saudi publisher added negative language about Jews and Christians. “This interpretation of Islam is part of a larger problem.” Ah, she’s just a racist h8ter. Probably opposes free contraceptives too, because she’s obviously part of the GOP war on women.

Hi-speed train kills reindeer ‘like meat grinder’: farmer. We heard about the unintended consequences of wind farms on birds and bats… Here’s not-so-good news for more denizens of the animal kingdom that wander into the path of another of the pols’ favorite public money wasters. Imagine the new winter solstice song: “Rudolf, the red-nosed SPLAT!” Hey, wonder what will these trains hit in California?

Four years later, Obama campaign still running against Palin. “Running against Palin, ginning up a culture war theme… this is all focused on exciting the base…. They may be focusing on the base because… most people have already made up their minds. If so, then the only thing to be determined is turnout.” And the Democrat-Media complex will be doing their darnedest to depress GOP turnout: “Hey, unemployment’s down to 8.3%, Obama’s a shoo-in!”

Former Sen. Arlen Specter (PA) writes in a new book that President Obama ditched him in the 2010 election after he helped Obama win the biggest legislative victory of his term by passing healthcare reform. boo. hoo. It couldn’t have happened to a more deserving fellow. To paraphrase Dorothy Parker, “This is not a book to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”

Obamalaise: Like Carter, Obama suggests that we have only ourselves to blame for being stuck in the doldrums. In Obama’s mind, it’s our fault for voting in the Republicans. Well, the current problems are our fault, but it’s the 2008 vote that’s the root cause.

Parking spot is a human right, Ottawa mother claims. Kinda trivializes the concept of “human right”, it does. On the other hand, “under the current zoning, front-yard parking isn’t permitted on her street, which is in a heritage preservation district.” Maybe if pompous nanny-state pols didn’t feel the need to invent this sort of official poop to micro-manage the world, silly justifications wouldn’t be needed.

All the pain for zero gain – painful facts about wind energy.“To the nearest whole number, the percentage of the world’s energy that comes from wind turbines today is: zero.” Wind provides .3%, still lowered oceans above solar photovoltaic, which doesn’t even crack the .1% mark even after the Amazing Transparent President flushed billions down that crony-lined rathole. Zero. Say it again: Zero.

Investigators said Fmr. Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) was driving a Mercedes when he ran a red light and hit a bus. Middle-class defender Grayson was on his way to a big-bucks fundraiser featuring middle-class defenders RFK Jr. and actress Cheryl Hines when he hit the bus, injuring some of the people he’s trying to defend. Seriously, Grayson is busting his butt fighting economic injustice for them, the least they could do is keep their stupid bus outta his way.

What is the carbon footprint of the 340-ton rock transported on a 196-wheel vehicle on an 11-day journey to an art museum in L.A.? We suspect it’s about the same as ferrying the presidential entourage around the country so Obama can campaign promote “green energy”, but the important thing to remember is YOUR grocery-shopping trip to WalMart is choking us in greenhouse gases.

Fonda & Steinem: FCC should clear Limbaugh from airwaves. They decry “hate speech” (anything liberals don’t like) and Rush’s “hiding behind the First Amendment” (we didn’t know that free speech was only a legal technicality.) What about lefty “hate speech”? The womyn don’t go there but commenters concoct the bizarre rationalization that it doesn’t matter what the Mahers and Lettermans say ’cause they’re comedians or something. Hey, we often find Rush pretty amusing. Equal protection. Carry on, El Rushbo.

Feeling racist? Blood pressure pill Propranolol may open hearts and minds. The only blood pressure medication available under Obamacare. “Here, take this… you’ll feel double-plus healthier once you start voting Democrat, Winston… you’ll see.”

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