Journalists incurious in 2008 about Barack Obama’s college grades, and how he got into Harvard Law School, or his associations with radical Islamists are morbidly curious about why Scott Walker dropped out of Marquette University, and with what he believes about evolution. “As Scott Walker mulls White House bid, questions linger over college exit,” wrote Paul Farenthold in the Washington Post Feb. 11. The questions linger only in Mr. Farenthold’s feverish imagination. Gov. Walker said left Marquette because the Red Cross offered him a good job. Unlike Barack Obama, he gave his college permission to release his academic records. He was a student in good standing when he left, Marquette confirmed. For conservatives, who value accomplishment, this is a non-issue. Scott Walker has had a successful career, despite not having a college diploma. Dropouts Steven Jobs (Apple) and Bill Gates (Microsoft) have done all right too. But for liberals, who value credentials, not having a college degree indicates stupidity (if the dropout is a Republican). The difference between credentials and actual knowledge and accomplishment was starkly illustrated last week by Deputy State Department spokesperson Marie Harf.

This might not be a good time to remind New Englanders digging out from a “Biblical” series of storms that a year ago this month a writer in the New York Times predicted “the end of snow.” In 8 of 14 winters since the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said “milder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms,” the snow extent in North America has been greater than average, according to the Global Snow Lab at Rutgers University. Last year was the earth’s warmest since 1880, said NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies Jan. 16. Which was odd, because according to the National Climatic Data Center, last winter was the coldest since 2009-2010; last summer the coolest since 2009. Temperatures recorded at stations of the Global Historical Climatology Network from Jan. 1 through May 6 were the lowest ever. How do the coldest winter and summer in four years, the coldest Spring ever recorded add up to the warmest year? They don’t.  Here's how science has disgraced itself with warmist deceit.

There are decades of stories about corporations, movie actors, artists and politicians hiding money from the taxman. Many economic studies have shown that once tax rates exceed 20 percent, most people will start thinking about and then acting in legal or illegal ways to avoid the tax bill. The reason there is so little remorse about tax avoidance and evasion is that virtually everyone knows that much of what government does is a ripoff. If people really believed that "government is underresourced" and spends its money wisely, they would not take legal charitable and other deductions when they file their income taxes. The president's buddy, Al Sharpton, is welcome at the White House almost any time, even though the Internal Revenue Service reportedly claims he owes millions in unpaid taxes.  If Mr. Sharpton had robbed a supermarket of a mere $10,000, it is unlikely he would be welcome at the White House. The message is obvious. The government even tells us that federal employees, including thousands at the IRS, owe billions in back taxes, yet little is done. At the same time IRS leaders have the unmitigated gall to demand larger budgets. Every thinking person implicitly knows that the U.S. government is the world's biggest financial fraudster.  Here's what to do about it.

The brutal execution by ISIS of a Jordanian pilot has lit a fire under Jordan's King Abdullah, who has stepped up air strikes, moved "thousands" of troops to his border with Iraq. A graduate of the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, paratrooper and pilot, Abdullah, 53, was a major general commanding Jordan's special forces when he ascended to the throne in 1999. He's vowed "retribution like ISIS hasn't seen."  I wish our president had his stones. * * * * He doesn't, said the former editor of Ashar al-Awsat, an Arabic newspaper published in London. "Everyone knows the international anti-ISIS coalition is just a cover for the Obama administration's spineless reluctance to make any lasting decisions or take any real action in the Middle East," said Tariq Alhomayed. * * * * Zero is trying harder to defeat Bibi Netanyahu in the Israeli elections March 17 than to defeat ISIS, but his efforts appear to be backfiring. He's also failing to keep Bibi from speaking to a joint session of Congress. * * * * The White House had very specific intel about where ISIS was holding Western hostages, but a rescue mission failed because Obama  dithered for seven weeks before authorizing it. * * * * In remarks which even for him were breathtakingly ignorant, erroneous and offensive, President Barack Obama declared moral equivalence between Islamic extremism and Christianity. * * * * Must see tv this week is watching White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest and State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki get eaten alive as they try to defend President Obama's claim the murder of four Jews in a kosher deli in Paris the day after the Charlie Hebdo massacre was "random." * * * * Illinois' new Republican governor, Bruce Rauner, has issued an executive order to put an end to the requirement state employees in the Land of Lincoln pay union dues even if they don't join the union. * * * * The man who murdered "American Sniper" Chris Kyle wasn't suffering from PTSD. He may have been an Islamist seeking vengeance. * * * * John Judis, co-author of "The Emerging Democratic Majority" in 2002, has recanted. He now sees an "Emerging Republican Advantage."

The runaway box office success of "American Sniper," which chronicles the exploits of Chris Kyle, the Navy SEAL credited with more confirmed kills than any other sniper in U.S. history, has unhinged many liberals. After seeing the movie, I can understand why they're so upset. Actor Bradley Cooper and director Clint Eastwood have captured precisely what motivates "sheepdogs" like Chris Kyle. I was deeply moved, because I was a "sheepdog" once. Kyle  served four tours in Iraq chiefly because he wanted to protect as many Marines as he could from the vicious killers they were fighting.  After leaving the Navy in 2009, Kyle worked with veterans who had mental problems. On Feb. 2, 2013, he was murdered by one of the vets he was trying to help. His family says Eddie Routh has PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder). That's not likely, because he never saw combat.  There's disturbing evidence that Routh began sympathizing with the Moslem terrorist prisoners he guarded in Iraq.

Radical Islamists and Christians both have bloody hands, Barack Hussein Obama said at the National Prayer Breakfast Feb. 5. "Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ," he said. "In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ." Mr. Obama's moral equivalence shocked even those accustomed to his habitual disregard for truth.   "To compare the depredations of the Islamic State with those of the Crusaders is patronizing in the extreme," said liberal Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson. It was like FDR saying he couldn't speak out against Hitler because of what we did to the Indians a century ago, said MSNBC talk show host Joe Scarborough. What Obama said was both patronizing and stupid, yes.  But was it also something worse?