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December 2009

HAVE YOURSELVES A MERRY JIHAD CHRISTMAS

http://townhall.com/Common/PrintPage.aspx?g=3ab0b472-18b9-4d73-929c-64d8ab33b7d2&t=c Have Yourself a Very Jihad Christmas Allen Hunt President Obama’s speech in accepting the Nobel Peace Prize showed great growth in his development as a leader. He courageously set forth the principles of just war before those who had assembled to give him a peace prize. The president boldly acknowledged America’s very real enemy, […]

THE PHONY “COST CONTROL” BILL OF GOODS

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703558004574583962940536556.html#printMode The ‘Cost Control’ Bill of Goods How Peter Orszag and the White House sold a health-care illusion.ObamaCare’s core promise—better quality care for everyone at lower costs—is being exposed as an illusion as it degenerates into the raw exercise of political power. Naturally, the White House and its media booster club are working furiously to […]

WHERE HAVE ALL THE LIBBIES GONE? VOTER INTIMIDATION IS A CRIME

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/14/black-panther-battle-intensifies//print/ EDITORIAL: Black Panther battle intensifies The dispute between the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the Justice Department is starting to look like the legal equivalent of World War II’s Anzio campaign, which represented a major escalation late in the war. The battleground is the controversy about the department’s decision to drop voter-intimidation cases […]

A CLOSED DOOR MEETING TO DERIDE SECRECY?

EDITORIAL: Obama secrecyhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/14/obama-secrecy//print/ You can’t have a closed-door meeting about the need for fewer closed-door meetings and expect anyone to take you seriously. That’s like writing a memo to order fewer memos. Such folly is business as usual in the Obama White House. President Obama promised a historic level of transparency from his administration but […]

THE SENATE DEMS LOVE WORKING ON WEEKENDS…$1.1 TRILLION PORK-LADEN BILL

Senate sends $1.1 trillion pork-laden bill to Obama http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/14/senate-sends-11-trillion-bill-to-obama//print/ Stephen Dinan The Senate on Sunday sent President Obama another hot potato, passing a $1.1 trillion catchall spending bill that includes money needed to run dozens of government agencies but also is loaded with pork-barrel spending. The bill, which funds most domestic federal agencies for the […]

BOLIVIA’S TIN POT PREZ DOES WHAT HUGO DOES

Defeated Bolivian candidate faces charges http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/14/bolivia-charges-vanquished-foe-of-morales-with-cor//print/ Martin Arostegui SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia | The government of President Evo Morales has leveled criminal charges against the runner-up in last week’s presidential election – a race in which Mr. Morales won a second term in office and his party a two-thirds majority in Congress. The opposition says the […]

BIG BROTHER IS ALREADY IN THE CONSULTATION ROOM: YALE KRAMER, M.D.

http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/big_brother_is_already_in_the.html Big brother is already in the consulting room By Yale Kramer, MD Yesterday I received a letter from a Dr. Paul Soloman who signed himself the National Medical Director of United Healthcare, the insurance company that oversees the AARP Medicare Supplement Insurance plan. And though I am a member of the AARP plan the […]

NILE GARDINER: BISHOP VENNER OWES THE 9/11 VICTIMS AN APOLOGY

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100019755/appeasing-the-taliban-bishop-venner-owes-an-apology-to-the-victims-of-911/ Appeasing the Taliban: Bishop Venner owes an apology to the victims of 9/11 By Nile Gardiner The Telegraph’s Jonathan Wynne-Jones and Duncan Gardham have an explosive report on the appalling views of the Rt. Rev. Stephen Venner, recently commissioned by Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, to serve as Bishop to the Forces. […]

AN IRRATIONAL ACT: TRYING KSM IN NYC…ANDREW McCARTHY

December 11, 2009, An Irrational Act Trying KSM in NYC will delay the verdict, and reduce the chances it is the right one. By Andrew C. McCarthy Here’s the biggest problem with the Obama administration’s decision to transfer Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 jihadists to the civilian court system: It makes sense only […]

HE BETTER APPOINT A POLL CZAR…

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_ administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll Daily Presidential Tracking Poll   The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 23% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -19. Today is the second […]