Just how comfortable was the Obama team with the far left, radical statements and beliefs of Van Jones? Obviously, they believed he fit right in. Somewhat lost in the controversy over Jones Trutherism, his conspiracy mongering about whites trying to kill black people through environmental degradation, his anti-Semitic statements on Israel, his support for the cop killer Mumia, and other beyond the pale beliefs is the fact that, as Paul Mirengoff of Powerline points out, Obama had his eye on the "former" communist for years: Having watched the rise of Van Jones, why did Team Obama nonetheless "recruit" him into...