Render unto Czar the economy, energy, cars, green jobs, AIDS, climate change, war, terrorism, faith based initiative, regulatory policy, safe and drug free schools……………….

Given that there are officially more Czar’s in President Obama’s shadow-Cabinet than can be claimed for the entire three hundred and seventy year period between the reign of Ivan the Terrible and the October Revolution, the U.S.A. can once again affirm the scientific fact that we are No. 1!

While many presidential advisers are not given the official title of Czar-dom, estimates have put Obama’s total between thirty-four and forty-four (http://kingston.house.gov/UploadedFiles/BKAC.pdf). By comparison, Congressman Jack Kingston (R-GA) puts the tallies for George W. Bush at fourteen czars and Ronald Reagan at three in eight years, respectively. Others have placed Bush’s much higher.

For the years between 1547 and 1917, I counted twenty-four Russian Tsars and four Empresses.

Now, there’s nothing brand-new about the metaphorical ‘Czar’ in American history.

When Judge Kenesaw Landis was appointed Commissioner of Baseball in the wake of the 1919 Black Sox scandal, this ‘Czar’ terminology was applied by some newspapers.

Later, President Franklin Roosevelt created about a dozen czars to oversee a variety of newly established bureaucracies, such as the Director of the Office of Censorship and the War Food Administrator and other brainchildren of fascism. These were, in turn, informally referred to as the Censorship Czar and the Food Czar, respectively.

After Roosevelt, such positions were less common. Succeeding presidents sparingly appointed advisers to oversee pet-projects and advise them on critical matters. It was not until President Nixon, who appointed a Drug Czar and an Energy Czar, that a president officially used the term “Czar.”

President Carter appointed two Inflation Czars. Unfortunately, these Czars seemed to have misunderstood the objective they were charged with, hence giving America the worst inflation since the Civil War.

President Clinton, who memorably ended illegal immigration, AIDS and climate change, expanded the use of Czars beyond Roosevelt’s dreams, creating a Border Czar, an AIDS Czar and a Climate Czar.

But it was under George W. Bush when the number of Czars truly ballooned. Bush had a Health Czar for the World Trade Center, or as we Americans warmly referred to him, the Special coordinator to respond to health effects of September 11 attacks, World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program.

So far, Czars have generally been one of two things, and always two other things.

First, they are always symbolic posts established to give Americans the temporary perception that the federal government is working hard on an important issue. Second, they are always soon forgotten by Americans, nonetheless continuing to bloat an ever-growing Byzantine system, concurrently robbing the tax-payers blind.

They are either un-approved Lords of a vast network of shadow executive programs, or they are initially un-approved Lords of a vast network of shadow executive programs but soon-to-be permanently established, Senatorially-approved federal bureaucrats.

Nixon’s Energy Czar became the Director of the Department of Energy under Carter; the position is now simply the Secretary of Energy. George W. Bush recently established the Homeland Security Czar, which quickly morphed into the Secretary of Homeland Security.

So, can we expect a Department of Faith Based Initiatives? Would it be suprising? George W. Bush created the 15th Cabinet position of the Federal government just six years ago. Fifteen. Never mind that George Washington did alright with four. My word, how did he manage without a Secretary of Housing and Urban Development? Did they just live in back-water mud-huts?

At the very least, turning these Czars into Senate-approved cabinet-level positions would at least bring to end the Executive’s ever dazzling tango-with-Totalitarianism, as our “living” Constitution is placed on life support.

Article II, Section 2 of the United States Constitution reads that “[The President] . . . . shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law: but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.”

Just how “inferior” are these Czars? How much power do they have? How big are their budgets?

No doubt, these Czars pose serious Constitutional questions. It is, moreover, high time American citizens quit abdicating their place in serious Constitutional debates in exchange for bread and circuses.

One Congressman has decided to finally do something about this, and he should be applauded. Congressman Jack Kingston (R-GA) has introduced legislation (http://kingston.house.gov/UploadedFiles/KINGST_039_xml.pdf) that would withhold funding from all Czars until they are Senatorially-approved.

Still the more recent, and albeit important, debate has been in relation to the ideologies held by the particular characters (and that’s a pretty friendly way of describing them) whom Obama has been appointing.

By the grace of God, Emperor, Autocrat and Czar of Green Jobs and, yay, all unholy realms thus related: Van Jones.

Van Jones, former Green Jobs Czar, resigned in disgrace a few weeks ago after it was revealed that he is a Marxist, 9/11 denying, envrio-fascist lunatic. Or as they used to call Fred Astaire: a triple threat.

Jones signed not one, but four petitions demanding an investigation of President Bush for his involvement with the planning of 9/11.

Jones also crusaded for Mumia Abdul-Jamal, a former Black Panther and convicted cop killer, by helping Jamal fight off his death sentence.

Nevertheless, I think we’ve all heard quite enough about the eminent Star Jones… I mean Czar Jones. What does Cass Sunstein think?

By the grace of God, Emperor and Grand Duchy on the Left Hand Side, Regulatory Czar: Cass Sunstein.

Cass Sunstein, confirmed by the Senate as President Obama’s Regulatory Czar, thinks animals have a right to sue humans in courts of law. Sunstein is on tape quoting Utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, who said “the day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withheld from them but by the hands of tyranny.” According to Sunstein, “a full grown horse or dog is a more rational and conversable animal” than a week or month old baby. I hear Frederic Nietzsche enjoyed a good dialogue over tea and scones with horses himself. Tell us about his philosophical musing. Please, more wisdom, oh sage!

At least we are finally able to extract the route logic behind why these people think abortion on demand is tolerable: unlike with dogs, you just can’t converse with babies.

Ps, for those who enjoy the kind of priorities which Bentham’s Utilitarian philosophy espouses, please see Europe circa 1933 to 1945.

By the grace of God, Emperor and Autocrat of Schools, Sire, Liege and pagan Lord: Kevin Jennings.

There is the Head of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, Kevin Jennings. Jennings believes that a key to safe and drug free schools is hate crimes legislations for gay and lesbian students. Jennings founded the Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network in the early 1990’s. Although Jennings submitted the idea of hate crimes legislation to foster safe schools, in 1995 he admitted that the safe-schools stuff was mere rhetoric and that GLSEN really just “threw [the] opponents on the defensive, and stole their best line of attack.”

Jennings wrote about the introduction of diversity policies that mandate gay lesbian and transgender themes being brought into school curriculum.

Can any one rationally describe the virtue of such themes being introduced in school curriculum?

“Ok class! Today’s plan shall include one hour of civics, thirty minutes of algebra, followed by your fifteen minute play break and then forty-five minutes of LGBT studies.”

This is not a social, religious, moral or political debate. This cannot be confused with the issue of gay marriage or gay rights. This is an agenda posed to teach about social and sexual relationships better explained by parents. Radicals like Jennings, however, have convinced themselves that parents have no right to socialize their own children in the ways they see fit. Any attempt to block a LGBT curriculum would surely be met with cries of “homophobia.”

It also turns out that Jennings is a prolific writer. In yet another book he describes an incident which occurred while he taught at the Concord Academy in Massachusetts, in which a fifteen year old student came to him and described having sexual relations with an older man. Rather than reporting this act of statutory rape to authorities as a teacher is legally obligated to in most states (well, maybe not in Massachusetts), Jennings merely asked if the boy used a condom. I give you, our Safe and Drug Free Schools Czar.

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Once merely a narrative, icing over the bio of the high cherub of change, Obama’s associations with crazed and deranged acquaintances has by now morphed into a veritable Vagina Monologue for Marxist nut jobs.

Never mind his whimsical soothsayer, Reverend Jeremiah Rasputin, Obama’s shadow cabinet makes Wright look moderate. Never mind that a few Marxists popped up along on the campaign trail, they now occupy valued positions in the Obama White House (senior adviser Valerie Jarrett once described Van Jones as someone who Obama “has been watching since he’s been active out of Oakland.”).

I would ask all of us to simply remember President Obama’s request of us: “Judge me by the people with whom I surround myself.”

You bet your ass we will.