The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.

News of the Tautological
” ‘Marsquake’ May Have Shaken Up Red Planet”–headline, Space.com, Feb. 21

Bottom Story of the Day
“Roemer Running as Independent”–headline, Politico.com, Feb. 22

Out on a Limb
“Crucial Week Could Make or Break Romney”–headline, Seattle Times, Feb. 22

Mullah It Over
We may be in the minority on this, but we thought one of Rick Santorum’s recent “gaffes” was actually kind of brilliant. The Hill has the story:

Rick Santorum said Sunday that he “wasn’t suggesting the president was not a Christian” when he stated on the campaign trail that President Obama’s agenda was based on “some phony theology. Not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology.”

Rather, Santorum said, he believed that the president held the view of “radical environmentalists” who wanted to shape policy around “things that frankly are just not scientifically proven,” like global warming.

“When you have a world view that elevates the earth above man and says we can’t take those resources because we’re going to harm the earth by things that frankly are just not scientifically proven, like for example the politicization of the whole global warming debate – this is all an attempt to centralize power and give more power to the government,” Santorum said on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday. “This is not questioning the president’s beliefs in Christianity, I’m talking about the belief that man should be in charge of the earth.”

That was what we assumed Santorum meant when we first heard of the comment. But of course the liberal media went into full frenzy mode, accusing Santorum of raising questions about the president’s religion. In wrongly accusing Santorum, it was the media that raised questions about the president’s religion.

It seems to us Obama would be better off staying away from that topic, especially given that his “spiritual mentor” is a guy who shouted from the pulpit: “God damn America!” Santorum once said in a speech that Satan has been “attacking the great institutions of America.” At least in his theology America is on the side of good. …

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