Pakistan army retakes main Swat city from Taliban.
Anybody who really expects Nancy Pelosi to resign solely based on her torturing of the facts about her briefings on harsh interrogation techniques so far is living in a fantasy world. These aristocrats covet power, and they don't just walk away because they got busted in a fantastic lie. There will have to be more and bigger revelations for that to ever happen.
I don't agree with Charles Krauthammer's advice for Republicans to criticize but still confirm Sotomayor. Republicans have to stand for something, and voting for Sotomayor would show they stand for nothing - still. Republicans should make her confirmation a referendum on the rule of law versus the lawlessness of the Obama administration. Besides grilling her on her unsupportable statements, they should ask where the Constitution grants the president the power to fire the head of GM, determine bonuses and set compensation. They should force Sotomayor to either support Obama's lawlessness or disagree with it. Assuming Sotomayor doesn't have good answers for or doesn't answer why she thinks a Hispanic woman is better judge than a white man and why she thinks policy should be made from the bench and for Obama's lawlessness, Republicans should vote against her, but not filibuster.
Jonah Goldberg agrees with me that Cheney has shown the way to defeat Obama - taking him on directly with principled stands on issues backed by facts without apology - and that this should be a lesson for taking on Sotomayor and on rebuilding the Republican party.
Liberal comes out and says Sotomayor was right to say she would judge sex discrimination cases better because she was a Hispanic woman. This shows the bizarre world view of liberals. They don't think all people are created equal in the eyes of the law. They think that in a sex discrimination case, the white man is presumed guilty, and they want to institutionalize that belief with a judge who's empathetic to the victim and therefore predisposed against the white man. Referencing Ginsburg, a well known opponent of the rule of law, doesn't help his case.
Yet another liberal comes out in favor of empathy, but contradicts herself when she wants a judge to rule dispassionately on the law. If rulings should be dispassionate, then why should we care about empathy? One quote explains her view of empathy means hubris:
"If empathy means you understand what other people are thinking," says one senior White House adviser, "... you would think you would want a judge with empathy." That's also true.So by empathy, she thinks that gives judges the power to understand the thoughts of others. That's called projection, and it's the last thing we want from a judge - a judge with the hubris to think they understand what another person is thinking instead of a judge who rules based on the evidence. She also cuts off the pertinent end of Samuel Alito's quote, when he says he must check his empathy at the door to rule dispassionately.
Mark Steyn provides perspective on the significance of America's weakness regarding the expanding nuclear threat of North Korea.
Rich Lowry points out that Pharaoh Obama is now the most powerful board member of multiple companies in the same industries across multiple industries - a clear violation of anti-trust law. Funny. Obama is a one man cartel, colluding with himself across companies and industries.
Great quote from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:
"You can only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power – he's free again."Yet another essay about the repurcussions of Obama's use of force and lawlessness, comparing America to Vichy France on the verge of throwing off a long occupying power - our own Federal government. Interesting thought that Lincoln may yet lose the war between the states.
When you read this essay, you begin to understand the magnitude of the collapse that is coming sooner instead of later.
Man, oh, man. If anybody knows about Marxism, it's Pravda, and this Pravda commentator says America is racing down the road to Marxism at a breath taking pace.
Peter Schiff advises Obama not to bailout California, and explains the horrendous consequences if he does.
Why one millionaire is leaving New York.
Acceptance of gays is higher among Protestants than the general public, with the Episcopalians and the Church of Christ leading the way (the Church of Christ has sure come a long way since I attended as a kid). Interesting that black Protestants are way down on the list of acceptance. There's the fragile Democrat coalition again.
Obama keeps campaign promise to his wife. To hell with the rest of us. Obama reverses much ballyhooed but never serious promise to ban lobbyists from his administration. Who would have seen this coming? Any person who uses their brain. He broke that ban the day he took office. I appreciate this liberal's call for Obama to resign - I'm happy to see some liberals recognize Obama for what anybody who used their brain knew him to be even before the election - but I hope he doesn't hold his breath.
This guy makes Bill Clinton look like a paragon of integrity and follow-through.I agree. Obama makes me wistful for the petty yet relentless self-serving corruption of the Clinton administration.
Obama has revealed himself. He is a monster, and he should remove himself from power.Too bad this guy didn't do his homework before the election. Better late than never, I suppose.
16 year old Iraqi immigrant in Sweden cracks 300 year old math problem.
You cannot chase down the guy who stole your cell phone and shoot him dead.
Police seize $500 from charity poker game, leaving needy people without food, because the church holding the charity didn't get a permit. Laws restricting gambling are stupid.
Drunk driver flips car, walks to farm where he works and steals tractor, uses tractor to tow car on its top, and drives tractor and car off bridge into creek. This guy has shamed every other drunk driver in the country.
Obama asks Australia to resettle a bunch of Chinese al Qaeda trained terrorists. I'm sure Australia will jump all over that.
Air tests over North Korea cannot confirm a nuclear weapon was detonated. The same thing happened last time. Would NK put enough high explosives in the ground to fake a nuclear bomb? Twice? We shouldn't take that chance. If they can't really explode a nuclear bomb, then we should take the opportunity to insure they never gain that capability.
Turns out that Mancow getting waterboarded was a fake.
Map of best beer in America.
Tennessee legislature likely to override veto of law allowing concealed carry holders to carry firearms into bars. This is the wrong debate. We're looking at this from the wrong angle. The 2nd Amendment guarantees that government cannot infringe on taking arms into bars or anywhere else.
Boston police to get semi-automatic rifles because so many terrorists have successfully attacked Boston in the past. Yikes!
Africa gives us a new, lethal virus called Lujo. Lovely.
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