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

Out on a Limb
“U.S. May See Several Hurricane Landfalls in 2011: WSI”–headline, Reuters, April 26

Breaking News From 1889
“North Dakota Becomes 31st State”–headline, Fleet Maintenance, April 27

Bottom Stories of the Day
“Americans Care About Global Warming Even Less Than Before”–headline, Gothamist.com, April 26

Read It and Weep
“A key developer of the device that came to be known as the teleprompter has died,” the Associated Press reports from Hartford, Conn. “Hubert ‘Hub’ Schlafly was 91. He won an Emmy Award for his contributions to the innovation, now commonplace in political addresses.”

President Obama had no comment.

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