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WEEKEND OPEN FORUM: What's on your mind?

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That guy Tuesday wasn't Bobby Jindal

Ripped from the wires ... Kathleen Parker rises to the defense of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who made a hash of the GOP reply to President Obama's speech on Tuesday:

By KATHLEEN PARKER

I liked the old Bobby Jindal better -- the one whose brain moves so fast, he's already indexing questions his interviewers haven't thought of yet.

What did they do with him?

'Clean' Commerce designee has Chinagate fingerprints

From the morning e-mail ... Right-wing firebrand Michelle Malkin dishes the dirt on the latest secretary of commerce designee:

BY MICHELLE MALKIN

Liberal media outlets are doing their best to boost former Washington Gov. Gary Locke, President Obama's third pick for the beleaguered Commerce Secretary job. "Obama's New Commerce Pick Has Clean Reputation," declared National Public Radio's Tom Banse. The Democrat possesses "a largely scandal-free resume" reported The New York Times. He is a "safe choice," the Washington Post asserted, because of his "strait-laced reputation."

FRIDAY OPEN FORUM: What's on your mind?

Post comments below on any issue you want. The only limitations: the ground rules listed at the left and your own imagination. I'll reply when appropriate. Have fun. dc

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Post comments below on any issue you want. The only limitations: the ground rules listed at the left and your own imagination. I'll reply when appropriate. Have fun. dc

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Cornered on race, NY Post lashes out

Ripped from the wires ... Leonard Pitts discusses the implications of the recent New York Post cartoon apparently likening the president to an ape:

BY LEONARD PITTS JR.

"Police and deputy sheriffs hunted  Wednesday night for a negro 'beast man.'" - The Billings Gazette, Sept. 19, 1929

"An original Guinea negro whose blood has not been crossed is as docile as a shepherd dog." - The Atlanta Constitution, June 4, 1899

"Miss Mary Henderson The Victim of a Negro Beast"

- The Moberly Weekly Monitor, Aug. 29, 1901

Obama seeks to alter America's trajectory

Ripped from the wires ... Charles Krauthammer explains what President Obama is really up to:

 By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER

Not a great speech, but extremely consequential. If Barack Obama succeeds, his joint address to Congress will be seen as historic -- indeed as the foundational document of Obamaism. As it stands, it constitutes the boldest social democratic manifesto ever issued by a U.S. president.

Face it, motorcylists: The old MB is gone

Today's editorial explains why the new Myrtle Beach May rallies regulations are so painful for motorcyclists:

"This isn't about the rallies. This is about the freedoms we have. As soon as you stop fighting for your freedoms, you lose them."

- William O'Day, motorcycle plaintiff

THURSDAY OPEN FORUM: What's on your mind?

Post comments below on any issue you want. The only limitations: the ground rules listed at the left and your own imagination. I'll reply when appropriate. Have fun. dc

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'Obama looks an awful lot like Mary Poppins'

Ripped from the wires ... Cal Thomas analyzes President Obama's speech Tuesday and Gov. Bobby Jindal's response, and finds both wanting:

By Cal Thomas

After weeks of "talking down'' the economy and concern among some of his supporters that his sobering prognosis for the nation's recovery might be affecting America's natural optimism, President Obama delivered a speech to Congress on Tuesday, parts of which sounded as if they could have been written by a Republican.

Expand Medicare to cover everyone

From the afternoon e-mail ... The California Nurses Association explains why the president's health-care-reform call is welcome:

The nation's largest organization of registered nurses today praised President Obama's call for "comprehensive" healthcare reform in his speech to Congress Tuesday night, but emphasized that only genuine reform, as in expanding Medicare to cover everyone, will actually solve the crisis -- and rein in the skyrocketing costs that the president noted are bankrupting Americans and costing jobs.