As the Benghazi prosecution appears to fizzle, rightbloggers have sought to replace it with a pair of new scandalettes involving the IRS and the Associated Press.

We think this shows a disappointing lack of imagination. In the far-flung meth labs of the right, fresher outrages are cooking that Americans can better understand: Outrages that involve the humiliation of American servicemen by a racial minority, and the President's admission of what rightbloggers have been saying all along: That he's a Socialist. Hunt where the ducks are, fellas!

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House Republicans finally got their hearings on Benghazi, and we have learned that the Obama Administration, the CIA, and the FBI massaged their talking points before announcing the attack last September, and that at least a couple of people thought the U.S. military could have gotten to Benghazi quicker than they did.

At least, that's what we heard. Our friends the rightbloggers seem to have heard that Obama and Hillary Clinton murdered Ambassador Stevens in cold blood, for no better reason than that they hate America (or love Islam!), and that the President must be impeached for it at the very least.

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Last week NBA player Jason Collins came out as gay -- spectacularly, in the pages of Sports Illustrated. He did so not because he had been arrested in a men's room or outed by a news site, but because, as he told SI, he wanted to "start the conversation" that would make it easier for young gay athletes to pursue careers without hiding their essential natures.

Rightbloggers were happy to join the conversation -- to tell us what a lousy player and human being Collins is, and to complain that no one was willing to listen to their contribution.

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There's a bill working its way through Congress that would offer a "path to citizenship" to the sort of immigrants currently known in some circles as illegal. Though its application is general, it's obviously aimed at U.S. guests of the Mexican persuasion, and it only has a chance of passing because Republicans, sick of losing Hispanic votes and fearful of fallout from the failure of the DREAM Act, are lining up behind it.

Many rightbloggers don't like it but, perhaps feeling overmatched by its popularity, haven't been too vocal about it -- until the Boston Marathon bombings gave them a new chance to explain to the world why foreigners from Mexico to the Caucasus are inherently dangerous.

There's long been a schism in the conservative movement on immigration, with supporters like the Wall Street Journal, Grover Norquist, and George W. Bush pushing for more of it -- mainly because heightened low-income immigration would add downward pressure on American wages, hastening the dawn of the new feudalism that is the Journal's dream -- and outlets like National Review and VDare pushing for less -- mainly because Mexicans.

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The nightmarish events in Boston last week engendered a huge load of coverage, some of it inspired, some of it infamously bad. Most of the bad stuff was bad because the people putting it out were either trying to scoop the world and wound up reporting untruths, or didn't care what the truth was in the first place.

Rightbloggers were bad in something like their usual way. Truth wasn't so much the issue with them as context, which they tried to manage so that the grim event might be perceived as congruent with their worldview -- which is that liberals are stupid, people who are different should be avoided and possibly deported, and Obama hates America.

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Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul spoke at historically black Howard University last week, and it was a major event. No, he didn't seem to win any black votes for the GOP--even his fans admit as much. But white people of the rightblogger variety were all over it, and that's what counts.

Some of the brethren held out some hope that the speech, and the many acts of outreach with which Paul will doubtless follow up (how much does a half-hour on ASPiRE cost?), might shave some points off the Democrats' mammoth share of the non-Caucasian vote. But most were excited that Paul was saying things they liked in an exotic location.

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Maybe it's because everyone's sick of fighting over gay marriage. Maybe it's because our rightblogger friends' tactic of Adam-and-Steving the issue hasn't helped their increasingly hopeless cause, even within the Republican Party. In any case, some of the brethren are working a new angle.

Well, not totally new. There has long been a body of conservative thought about how it's actually straight marriage that needs fixing, and in these dark days for the anti-gay cause, that kind of thinking is catching on with rightbloggers. The basic premise: Straights better marry fast and early, because something something values.

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Last week the Supreme Court heard a couple of gay marriage cases, and with so many politicians and even some conservatives running to grab the rainbow flag, it seemed as if a corner on the contentious issue had been turned. How went the rightbloggers? Most continued to--paraphrasing Buckley--stand athwart history, crying "Please be gentle!" But others tried to accommodate their new gay-married overlords in ways that preserved for themselves some sliver of Right Pride.More »

Last week was the anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War. For friends and family members of the thousands of Americans and allies killed or wounded in that struggle, or of the tens of thousands of Iraqis killed, wounded or displaced, it probably wasn't a happy one.

We don't know whether these people expected or required an apology from the war's advocates in the media. But they got them nonetheless from several careerists eager to demonstrate that they had changed.

Most rightbloggers were disinclined to apologize, but weren't able to rouse much enthusiasm for the anniversary either, for which they blamed liberals.

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Last week the 39th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) met at National Harbor in Maryland near DC. If you heard anything about it, you probably heard about a CPAC forum called "Are You Sick and Tired of Being Called a Racist and You Know You're Not One?" that was every bit the disaster its name presaged.

For rightbloggers, CPAC is Old Home Week, but the dawn of the second Age of Obama found them conflicted and demoralized, so they focused on the good times -- like Sarah Palin making a joke about her tits.

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