In the past, if anyone asked whether the folks in charge in the nation’s capital were certifiable lunatics, or whether policy decisions were being made by superannuated college kids with no experience out in the real world, who apparently stayed up too late last night, smoking too much dope and listening to too much heavy metal, those questions could be safely dismissed as exaggerations for rhetorical effect.

Last month, however, another wacky Obama appointee, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, told Al-Jazeera Arab television that President Obama told him before he took the job that he wanted Mr. Bolden to do three things: inspire children to learn math and science, expand international relationships, and “perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering.” Full Piece