Have you ever heard of a coach calling a press conference to boast that his team would have lost by a wider margin without his clever game plan? Well, that's essentially what Obama is doing when he claims that his stimulus policy is saving jobs while the jobless ranks keep growing. Both claims might be true but just shut up about it until you start winning.

The media are still debating whether the Fort Hood attack was an act of terrorism or a crime. It seems obvious to me that it was both.