Where is the Obama administration as Qaddafi’s killing field expands? No human efforts could have prevented the tsunami in Japan, but the same cannot be said of the tsunami overtaking Libya.

Left-wing op-ed columnist Frank Rich is leaving the New York Times. Fantastic. I can’t wait to see who will be taking his place, but in the meantime it is worth looking back at some of the richly absurd columns that Rich has written over the years.

The U.S. Supreme Court, by an 8-1 vote, upheld the First Amendment rights of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka Kansas to engage in a hateful protest at military funerals carrying signs with disgusting messages such as “America is Doomed,” “Thank God for Dead Soldiers,” and “God Hates Fags.”

According to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, a majority of Americans say they oppose efforts to weaken the collective bargaining rights of public employee unions and are also against cutting the pay or benefits of public workers to reduce state budget deficits. These findings, which the Times reports on p.1 in its March 1st edition, are consistent with some other recent polls, but are misleading because of the way in which the questions were framed.