Stormy Monday, 2/3/14

For what it’s worth, Punxsutawney Phil’s outrageous prediction of six more weeks of this vile winter ensures that Broncos fans aren’t the only people shocked and saddened this week. It would cheer me up greatly if the Administration responded this week to the 242,995 signatories on a White House petition to revoke Justin Bieber’s green card and ship the insufferable little brat back over the Peace Bridge. Sadly, Press Secretary Jay Carney would go no further than saying an official response will be issued “relatively soon.” Stay tuned, and keep the signatures coming.

Tuesday, Bill Nye heads for Kentucky’s Creation Museum to debate Ken Ham, the museum’s founder, on the question: “Is creation a viable model of origins?” You can watch the debate live online, but I’m going ahead and calling it right now. Nye will win, Ham will claim otherwise, and nobody’s mind will be changed.

The President will “deliver remarks” at this year’s National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday at the Washington Hilton. If he’s stuck for material, one remark that would suit the occasion is the famous quote from Jefferson’s 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association:

… I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between church and State.