Detroit Free Press:

Arab Americans across metro Detroit cheered as Rima Fakih of Dearborn was crowned Miss USA tonight in Las Vegas.

“This is unbelievable,” said Rami Haddad, 26 of Livonia, one of Fakih’s biggest supporters. “It’s a dream come true. I can’t express my feelings.”

Fakih, of Lebanese descent, is believed to be the first Arab American and Muslim to become Miss USA.

Daniel Pipes:

This surprising frequency of Muslims winning beauty pageants makes me suspect an odd form of affirmative action.

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“A new Harris poll reveals Republican attitudes about Obama: Two-thirds think he’s a socialist, 57 percent a Muslim — and 24 percent say ‘he may be the Antichrist.'” [Daily Beast, via RML]

Conan O’Brien opens “The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour” in Eugene. Eugene, Oregon. Nojo’s ancestral home. That one. Local-humor pronunciation guide: “You-GENE”, “Orygun”, “Wil-LAM-met”. [Eugene Register-Guard]

Just when you thought you’ve had enough of the Connecticut asshole, he comes back with yet another asinine — wait, what?

In an exclusive interview with the Daily News, Lieberman told me that his commitment to repealing DADT is twofold. First, allowing gays to serve openly fulfills the bedrock American promise of providing citizens with “an equal opportunity to do whatever job their talents and sense of purpose and motivations lead them to want to do — including military service.” Second, and no less important for a lawmaker whose commitment to national security the Pentagon can’t doubt, is that “When you artificially limit the pool of people who can enlist then you are diminishing military effectiveness.”

Well, dayum. We’re not taking back Joe’s two Golden Anal Pears for Asshole of the Year, but this certainly complicates his threepeat.

On ‘ask,’ Lieberman answers the call: An exclusive chat about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell [NY Daily News]

It’s the first day of the Conservative Political Action Conference, and we already have a winner:

“The president couldn’t find anywhere to set up a teleprompter to announce new taxes,” Rubio said of the snow accumulation.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Gosh darn, that Obama Teleprompter Meme is really funny. It’s even funnier when you make a crack about it while standing in front of teleprompters.

Rubio makes fun of Obama teleprompter [The Hill]

Dear gawd, we should have run with this Wednesday or Thursday, before it got out of hand…

But we didn’t, so let’s take it from the top.

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That’s what we’re supposed to say, right? Anyone who even thinks about cutting defense spending is a traitor to our country?

I don’t think any agency of the federal government should be exempt from rooting out wasteful spending or unnecessary spending. And I, frankly, I would agree with it at the Pentagon. There’s got to be wasteful spending there, unnecessary spending there. It all ought to be eliminated, and we should be going through this budget line by line and, and asking the question, is this spending worth having to borrow money that our kids and grandkids are going to have to pay back?

That just sounds too reasonable to be trusted. But we can’t for the life of us figure out what Senator Non-Alliterative-Title Representative SprayTan is up to.

Boehner: Pentagon Should Be Part Of Spending Freeze [TPM]