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[img]1|left|||no_popup[/img] How can we tell:

That baby-faced (and puerile-acting) golfer Tiger Woods is a liberal?

Because the non-perceptive gentlemen of the sports media have displayed no curiosity about Tiger Baby’s bizarre behavior the past 5 days. They see wife-cheaters every day at the office. They shrugged in boredom not only over his inexplicable middle of the night accident in his driveway but also at the way he arrogantly stiffed supporters yesterday by pulling out of his own golf tournament this weekend in Thousand Oaks.

If I ever have an accident speeding away from our home at 2:20 in the morning, I hope Diane does not pursue me with a golf club the way Tiger Baby’s wife did.

That Mike Huckabee is a dreaded Republican:

Because in the first- or second-most noticed story on Page 1 in the Los Angeles Times this morning, the day after an ex-con gunned down four cops in Washington state, former Arkansas Gov. Huckabee was roasted worse than the killer for having commuted the killer’s prison sentence 9 years ago for earlier, much softer crimes.

Markie Barabak, the Times’s lead reporter, has pulled this stunt before. Like many liberals, he finds conservatives and Republicans a greater threat to mankind than terrorists, a term he considers a filthy word, an opprobrium worse than nigger, which he won’t even pronounce.

Uncomfortable with moderation when describing people he hates, Mr. Barabak opened his screed, masquerading as a news story, by giving his unsolicited opinion, declaring that Mr. Huckabee “broke his silence.” Actually, Mr. Huckabee defended/explained his commutation the day of the massacre. It was Mr. Barabak who didn’t catch up with him until the day after. If Mr. Barabak had written a prediction of the spree on Saturday, the day before it occurred, that would have been impressive. It would have given him grounds for criticizing Mr. Huckabee for not knowing 9 years in advance this would happen.

That Mr. Obama is our first amateur President?

Because he is the first President to run a war strictly by the calendar, not to mention his re-election plans. Not even Jimmah Carter was that ditzy. We are told that Swish, who never leaves home without a mirror, will sound a bell in a little less than 3 years in Afghanistan. At that point, Referee Obama will declare the war officially over. All of our uniformed heroes will be rushed home just in time to vote Swish into a second term, heaven help us. By declaring a specifically timed exit strategy — a concept liberals have been praying to Allah for the past 8 years —Swish has handed our Muslim enemies a strategy for victory and seemingly guaranteed our defeat.

Maybe one of those nutty half-brothers Swish keeps picking up, like unmoored hitchhikers, in his global travels, can run for President, instead, under the Obama banner in ’12. We will call him Archie Bunker — you know, All in the Family.

That climate change is both an elaborate and a transparent scam?

Because when the most celebrated scientists in the world, who have led the decade-long crusade to create global warming awareness, were exposed last month as tricksters manipulating crucial data — scarcely a word, none critical, has appeared in your favorite print and electronic media. As you know, hackers broke into the computer files at headquarters for the formerly revered and prestigious Climatic Research Unit in Britain, revealing stacks of blueprints for creating fraudulent claims.

National Review magazine asserted this morning that there are actually 3 scandals:

“A scientific scandal, in which the leading lights of the climate-research cabal conspired to fudge data and silence skeptics.

“A media scandal, in which reporters and editors on the ‘climate beat’ at the world’s most prominent news organizations acted as stenographers for the cabal and ignored the scandal when it broke.

“A political scandal, in which officeholders here and abroad used the bunk science as a pretext for expanding their control of (and take from) the world’s energy markets.”

The most ironic line to emerge from this so-slow-to-surface exposition was uttered by the eminently unlikable New York Times reporter Andy (I Will Fall for Absolutely Anything) Revkin. Handy Dandy Andy, aging cheerleader, has been America’s most tireless journalist/medicine show man, shamelessly pushing global warming until scientists were forced to retreat and re-jigger their game to the more helpfully vague concept of climate change. Mr. Revkin announced in the august Times that he would not reprint emails that showed prominent scientists tailoring rubbery data to fit their beyond-belief claims because “those emails never were intended for publication.

Attention Handy Dandy Andy: Neither were the strategic governing secrets of the Bush administration. Oh, I forgot. They were published throughout Mr. Bush’s 8 years in the White House because he was a hated Republican. If only he had been a Muslim terrorist…