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Cable television talking head Lawrence O’Donnell, of MSNBC, went on a gutsy tirade last night, blasting his employer's parent company for creating "a monster."

David Harsanyi: Hey, why isn't Obama celebrating high oil prices?

"Didn’t Obama just elevate Donald Trump?"

"The Incredible Shrinking New York Times"

Ron Paul's in.

Everything that's wrong with Paul Krugman in a single sentence: "It might not have been Utopia, he says, but it could have been France."

"Anti-corporate demagoguery. Is there anything it can’t solve?"

Steve Hayes, with Juan Williams and Charles Krauthammer, last night on Fox News:

John Bolton: "Obama Wobbly on Libya."

Memo to the left: Stop claiming China is making great environmental progress.

Remember way back in 2010 when Obama said, "We're not going to be able to do anything about any of these entitlements if what we do is characterize whatever proposals are put out there as, ‘Well, you know, that's -- the other party's being irresponsible. The other party is trying to hurt our senior citizens. That the other party is doing X, Y, Z."

So much for the budget deal: "But the picture already emerging is of legislation financed with a lot of one-time savings and cuts that officially 'score' as savings to pay for spending elsewhere, but that often have little to no actual impact on the deficit."

"Tax the rich! OK, but then what, Mr. President?"

Not a parody: "NFL players need Obama's support"

"Egypt Sentences Blogger to 3 Years"

Mickey Kaus notes that the unwillingness to tackle discretionary spending in D.C. is a "tacit conspiracy of Washingtonians not to sacrifice the jobs of any of their friends, or the local economy."

Now that we've got a budget deal, who's up for a debt ceiling fight?

China to U.S.: Quit playing human rights cop.

Robert Samuelson on big government on the brink.

Donald Trump going after Obama on the Today Show strikes me as a big deal. A lot of the attention from the various Trump interviews has been directed at his unsubstantiated comments about Obama’s birth certificate. However, I think there is another angle here worth considering. Put those comments aside and listen to what is a very clear, direct critique of President Obama’s tenure.

Prosser pulls it out?

Still no budget deal.

"Nancy Pelosi’s absurd math on senior citizens losing their meals"