By JAY AMBROSE, Scripps Howard News Service

President Obama says "some powerful special interests" have been talking about him "like a dog," and it's true, especially that incredibly, awesomely powerful interest known as the American public, but there is a way out.

He can quit coming up with policy ideas like an immediate $50 billion, anti-recession expenditure to be part of the creation of a major new federal apparatus known as an infr

President Obama went on TV the other night to talk about the end of the combat mission in Iraq, and what he did not say is what very few are saying, least of all the ideologically disturbed, facts-rearranging left.

Fox TV commentator Glenn Beck turned out to be more nearly Billy Graham than a rant-and-rave, political eye-gouger in his estimated 300,000-strong, massive Washington rally, and that must pain leftist commentators, because, I mean, how could he let them down?

It was just satire, right? Somebody tell me that, please. Surely a man who has a Ph.D. in economics, teaches at Princeton University, won a Nobel Prize and writes a column for the New York Times could not have been serious in a recent factually amiss, ill-informed, conceptually baffled, ad hominem-driven piece on Social Security.

Come on, Republicans, snap out of it. Get over just saying no to everything the Democrats propose or have recently done. If you want to win big in November's congressional elections, you've got to come up with an agenda you subscribe to as a group, something particularized on a wide variety of fronts.

Please, quick, someone stop these conservatives who want to amend the Constitution, screech utterly aghast liberals who long ago figured out a better solution when some portion of the document got in the way of a policy they favored.

It is to simply ignore this basic law of the land or perhaps argue it says something it doesn't or doesn't say something it does.

Please, quick, someone stop these conservatives who want to amend the Constitution, screech utterly aghast liberals who long ago figured out a better solution when some portion of the document got in the way of a policy they favored.

It is to simply ignore this basic law of the land or perhaps argue it says something it doesn't or doesn't say something it does.

The apocalypse is upon us now, we are warned, and much is therefore required -- crush corporations, squeeze industrialism to puniness, transfer wealth from rich to poor countries. But hold on a minute. The apocalypse can't be found.

A poll shows most registered voters in New York City oppose building a mosque some 600 feet from where Muslims leveled the World Trade Center, killing 2,752 people, on September 11, 2001. Says Time magazine, anyone of an anti-mosque persuasion is ignorant and bigoted. Take that, New Yorkers, and now take a knee to the midsection and a karate chop to the neck.

It's absolutely nutty, you know, this business of giving cocaine to monkeys as part of a stimulus bill that hasn't stimulated anything outside of cages, least of all job creation. But there's something nuttier still. That's the Obama administration's justification of the project.