It’s the moment of Tyranny we’ve been warned about: an agent of the State denying your Second Amendment rights because your politics are disagreeable, Comrade.

Only this being Oklahoma, somehow the wires got crossed.

Our Oppressed Hero in this tale is Lane Dunkley, a God-fearing American citizen who sought a hunting permit so he could practice his God-given stewardship over deer. With his grandfather.

Lane, you see, is 13.

But you can’t just grab your flintlock and go in Socialist Oklahoma. Instead the local commissars require your attendance at a reeducation session, which they call a “hunter safety course” to fool the patriots.

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Sarah Palin has been curiously absent from the national stage the past couple of eventful weeks, and just as we were getting concerned enough to check in and make sure Putin hadn’t invaded Wasilla, we were relieved to learn she’s been busy doing Governor Things.

Just this week, she appointed a new member to the state supreme court. Nice lady by the name of Morgan Christen. Well-qualified, and active in the community, what with her service on the boards of the local United Way, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, and… um…

Planned Parenthood? Bristol must be more powerful than we thought.

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Oh shit, we got completely caught up chasing stories about our old student newspaper yesterday, and completely forgot to chase stories about our old favorite scourge, who made his reputation introducing a generation of American children to the mystery and wonder of Presidential splooge.

Yes, Ken Starr is back on stage, and once again he’s arguing against people who get more in a week than he does in a year. He’s out to prevent subverting the will of 52 percent of voters, we’re told, usually by folks quite busy trying to subvert the will of 52 percent of voters themselves.

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You’ll forgive our financial ignorance, but after we blew our inheritance on Tulip Futures, we’ve limited our investing to losing quarters in the couch, knowing they’ll remain safe until we need them.

But with headlines screaming DOW 40,000 7,000, we’re starting to wonder what the fuss is about. Haven’t we been hearing for years about inflated stock (and housing) prices? And if they’re inflated, doesn’t that suggest that someone needs to take some air out of the tires?

Unless, of course, you’ve been leveraging everything on a bet that stocks will be even more inflated. In which case that Red Button is looking more like a whoopie cushion.

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Steele to Rush: I’m sorry [Politico]

We weren’t aware of Bobby Jindal’s background until his stunning post-non-SOTU debut last week, and it’s a fascinating story, one indeed comparable to Barack Obama’s — except that Republicans aren’t calling Jindal a terrorist.

Jindal was born June 10, 1971, in Baton Rouge. His parents had arrived in the United States from Soviet-supported India six months earlier so his mother could enroll in the graduate program at Louisiana State.

Which should, of course, make his presidential aspirations immediately suspect, if we’re to have any standards in this great nation of ours. If Barry’s Kansas mother isn’t enough to satisfy constitutional qualifications, a couple of Hindus hopping a plane from the Punjab surely wasn’t envisioned by the Founders.

Yes, Hindus. They don’t believe in God, you know. Or they believe in too many gods. Or they don’t care because they’re too busy pestorking their cousins from previous lives. Really, they’re worse than Mormons.

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Before everyone got caught up comparing Bobby Jindal to Kenneth the Page (which leaves Michael Steele or Alan Keyes available to Tracy Morgan), his post-not-SOTU remark about “$140 million for something called ‘volcano monitoring'” was poised to become Wacky Soundbite of the Night.

As a governor whose state fell victim to Bush incompetence natural disaster, his comment was sure to raise eyebrows. (Never mind that Jindal also said his state would be better off without Bush incompetence government assistance in a crisis — we don’t have enough eyebrows for that.)

And since the only volcano in the news lately threatens the home state of Jindal’s rival for 2012 buffoon the next GOP nomination, easy jokes were at hand, if only they hadn’t been drowned out by easier jokes.

But apparently Alaskans aren’t big 30 Rock fans, since they’re not letting the matter drop.

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