Walter Patterson Herald ColumnistEven though I’ve studied them for many years, liberals never cease to astound and amaze me.  Just when you think they have finally gone out on a limb so far that it is sure to break and send them to their doom, they inch further out.
This must have been on Peggy Noonan’s mind when she wrote in the Wall Street Journal that President Obama was “creepy.”  “Just when you think he should moderate some of his policies and make them more appealing to moderates, he moves further left,” she wrote.
Last week, Mr. Obama out did himself.  He came down on the Supreme Court so hard that some pundits thought that he might be trying to intimidate the justices.  As far as I know, the Supreme Court has not rendered a decision on Obamacare, and they won’t until late June.  There is a lot of speculation that the court may find the law unconstitutional, but at this point, no one knows what the court will do.  There is some speculation that Mr. Obama got a “heads up” (leak) from the court, but no one will ever know whether he did or didn’t.
When Obama stated that it would be unprecedented for the court to overturn a law passed by the duly elected Congress, and unelected people had no right to declare a law unconstitutional, every judge in America sat up and “tuned in.”  Did Obama not remember a precedent setting case named Marbury vs. Madison that confirmed that the Supreme Court had the final say in whether or not a law met constitutional requirements?  In fact,  Judge Smith who serves on a federal appellate court in Houston ordered that the federal attorney appearing before him write a three page, single-spaced letter explaining why the court had the right to rule on the constitutionality of a law, and did President Obama understand this?  Dear reader, if I could give you some free advice that will save you from a fatal heart attack and a lifetime of sorrow, it would be this: don’t provoke a federal judge.  The results will not be to your liking.  Mr. Obama may soon find this out.
But there are other liberals in the news that astound and amaze me.  Take a recently published article that had as it thesis: “Liberals are smart, Conservatives are dumb.” I hate to tell you this, but some of the research was done at the University of Arkansas.  The liberals are bringing out the big guns.  They know that liberalism is a failed philosophy.  They know that a majority of Americans are conservative or right of center, yet they are trying to convince people that to be liberal is to brandish a large IQ.  “Edelman and his colleagues’ paper will surely outrage many of the right who will take offense to the idea that their ideology is linked to low brainpower.”  The report further states “We do not assert that conservatives fail to engage in effortful, deliberate thought.  We find that when effortful thought is disengaged, the first step people take tends to be in a conservative direction.”
Now we know.  All conservatives have low IQ’s, cannot engage in effortful, deliberate thought, and are Neanderthals.  Who would have ever guessed that the modern liberal holds us in such high esteem?  As for this study, I know a place where they can file it, but I don’t think it will improve these liberals’ personalities.
If this is not bad enough, a professor at the University of Oregon, Kari Norguard, presented a paper in London, England, in which she argued, “Cultural resistance to accepting the premise that humans are responsible for climate change must be recognized and treated as an aberrant sociological behavior”
Think about this.  This woman teaches our youth.  Moms and dads pay huge sums of money for this insane woman to clutter their children’s minds with nonsense.  
The liberals are coming out of the wood work now, and I’m afraid it will grow worse before it gets better.  We used to keep people like Edelman and Norguard in mental institutions, but now they write papers.  I’m just happy I’m a conservative with more sense than to believe this rubbish.  I do have one suggestion that makes more sense than their papers.  Cut off federal funding to these people!
I don’t think my tax dollars should be used to tell me I’m stupid and in need of treatment for my aberrant behavior.  
Miss Judy does that for free.