Mitt Romney took a big step toward the nomination on Super Tuesday, but didn't impress many pundits doing it. Romney is still 740 delegates short of the 1,144 he needs to win.  He'd have trouble getting there if Newt Gingrich drops out. There is a scenario in which a narrowly re-elected Barack Obama would not be as bad for us as a narrowly elected Mitt Romney. Iran may have tested a nuke in North Korea in 2010, a German newspaper reported Sunday.  Satellite images of a facility in Parchin reveal evidence of testing a neutron device to trigger a nuclear explosion, according to diplomats quoted in a British newspaper Wednesday. Despite this, Zero wants to continue negotiating. Zero's Iran policy makes war inevitable.  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may already have decided to strike.  It could be soon.  Obama is trying to bribe the Israelis to postpone an attack until after the election. Newt Gingrich took NBC's David Gregory to school on "Meet the Press" Sunday about the media's obsession with the Limbaugh-Fluke controversy.  Karl Rove was impressed. CNN's Soledad O'Brien tried to paint Breitbart.com Editor Joel Pollak (whose wife is black) as a racist because he criticized Zero's embrace of radical black separatist Harvard professor.

Is there an Obama jinx?  Sportswriters wondered about that when favored teams were upset shortly after the president praised them.  Political reporters speculated about a "vacation jinx" because bad things seem to happen when Mr. Obama went on them. At a United Auto Workers conference in Detroit Feb. 28, the president recalled a 2010 visit to the Hamtrack, Michigan plant where the Chevy Volt is built  He promised that after he's president, "I'll buy one and drive it myself." Two days later (Mar 02), General Motors announced it was shutting down the Volt production line.  About 1,300 workers will lose their jobs, at least temporarily. "In three years, our partnership with the private sector has already positioned America to be the world's leading manufacturer of high-tech batteries," Mr. Obama said in his state of the union address in January. He was referring to Ener1, a recipient of a $118 million grant from the Department of Energy.  Two days after that speech, Ener1 filed for bankruptcy protection.

Most people intuitively understand that job creation requires capital investment, but many in the Obama administration and in Congress seem to have missed this basic fact of economic life. As the late Jack Kemp used to say, "How many truck drivers would you have if nobody had money to buy trucks?" There are numerous studies that try to measure the cost of the average job, but a figure of $225,000 on average is in the ballpark. There has been much discussion in the press about all of the new job-killing environmental regulations coming out of the administration, such as the restrictions on coal plants and oil and gas drilling. The press has been less focused on the job killing that stems from all of the new financial regulations, which may end up eliminating tens of millions of jobs. An exaggeration you may say, but think about the following:

The rift between the Obama administration and Israel over what to do about Iran's nuclear program was on public display last week.  More U.S. troops were murdered by their Afghan ‘allies.'  A Gallup survey predicted a sharp increase in the unemployment rate. But media attention was focused on the flap caused when radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh called Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke a nasty name. It is, of course, OK when media lefties use vile demeaning names for conservative women like Sarah Palin or Laura Ingraham.  Once again, the hypocrisy of the Moonbat Media is on blinding display in this phony flap over Fluke.

The glass is half empty this week because of the death early Thursday morning of crusading conservative journalist Andrew Breitbart. Leftist scumbags are celebrating. The way to reduce gas prices, President Obama said in New Hampshire yesterday (3/1) is to make drilling more expensive. Zero's apology to Afghan President Hamid Karzai for the accidental burning of Korans by U.S. troops has “calmed things down,” President Obama said. Somebody forgot to tell that to the Afghans. Senate Democrats voted against the First Amendment Thursday. If not overturned, Obamacare regulations requiring religious hospitals to provide birth control and abortion drugs could cause a social disaster. President Obama plans to slash health care benefits for military personnel and military retirees...and build a $750,000 soccer field for Gitmo detainees. Inflation could hit 15 percent by late next year. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is likely to defeat union efforts to recall him. She and the other women in her class are having so much sex they can't afford to pay for their own birth control, Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke testified Monday.

Some 25 million young adults are living with their parents, chiefly for economic reasons, according to U.S. Census data. Young adults remain at home or return there chiefly because they don’t have a job, or the job they have doesn’t pay very much. Only 46 percent of Americans aged 16-24 have jobs, the lowest percentage ever recorded. A majority of 872 young adults polled last fall said their yearly incomes fall under $30,000. The two advocacy groups which conducted the poll estimated that 16 percent of Americans aged 25 to 34 were underemployed. Among those aged 16 to 24, a whopping 29 percent were underemployed. A record number of college graduates are unemployed. It’s bad enough to be unemployed. It’s worse to be unemployed -- and owe $25,000 or more for a worthless degree.