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The Enablers of Charlie Rangel 7.29.10
by Michelle Malkin
5 hours ago
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the world's worst cleaning lady. How has she fulfilled her vaunted promise to "drain the swamp" and preside over the "most ethical Congress in history"? By shrugging her shoulders, downplaying the gravity of myriad ethics charges against corruptocrat Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel and waiting for the "political chips" to "fall where they may." Imagine a custodial service that fixed toilet clogs by letting the overflowing waste and polluted waters "fall where they may." At a press conference to preempt the bipartisan House ethics panel's announcement of 13 ethics and federal regulation charges against Rangel on...
Another Day, Another Federal Assault on Liberty 7.29.10
by David Limbaugh
5 hours ago
esterday's federal court decision to enjoin enforcement of the Arizona immigration law is the latest example of a virtually unchecked renegade federal government waging war against the states and against the liberties of its citizens. We've seen that Obama will exercise any power he can get away with, from strong-arming secured creditors and favoring unions as he gobbled up automakers to making a mockery of due process with his Oval Office shakedown of BP. But he might have reached a new low with his assaults on the sovereignty of the people of Arizona. Indeed, Judge Susan Bolton's disgraceful decision to grant an injunction against Arizon...
A Democrat Goes into a Psychiatrist's Office ... 7.29.10
by Mona Charen
5 hours ago
Come in. Make yourself comfortable. What's that? You are a congressional Democrat? You voted to triple the national debt, destroy a health care system that the overwhelming majority of Americans were happy with in a way that creates a massive and infinitely complex new entitlement, bailout the banks and car companies, and "stimulate" the economy with an $862 billion boondoggle that hasn't created a single private-sector job? Your president is suing the state of Arizona for having the effrontery to enforce a law he wishes not to enforce (though he does have the constitutional responsibility to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed...
House Democrats Head for a Thumping at the Polls 7.27.10
by Michael Barone
29 Jul 2010 at 12:07am
Democratic spin doctors have set out how their side is going to hold onto a majority in the House. They'll capture four at-risk Republican seats, hold half of the next 30 or so Democratic at-risk seats, and avoid significant losses on target seats lower on the list. That's one plausible scenario. The shift of opinion away from Democrats so evident in the polls could turn out to be illusory. The widely held assumption that Republicans will turn out in greater numbers than Democrats could prove wrong. Democratic candidates do indeed have a money advantage in many close races, and their campaign committee has more cash than its Republican cou...
Shirley Sherrod, Quit While You're Ahead 7.27.10
by Larry Elder
29 Jul 2010 at 12:07am
Who knows what lies ahead for Shirley Sherrod -- a book, the lecture circuit, a wrongful discharge lawsuit that could bring millions? But if she keeps talking, the woman "wrongfully portrayed" as a racist may out herself as exactly that. Andrew Breitbart, a "right-wing" critic of the traditional liberal media, operates websites designed to expose the liberal bias of politicians, Hollywood types and the news media. He rejects the tax-and-spend, grow-the-government, race-based/identity policies of the left -- and believes these policies are aided and abetted by the left-wing media. This makes him a marked man -- with no margin for error. Ang...
Afghan Report Hits Obama Where It Hurts 7.27.10
by Dick Morris
28 Jul 2010 at 11:00am
The leaked Afghan war documents will prove politically devastating to President Obama, hitting him in his most vulnerable place -- his liberal base. Having already lost all Republicans and almost all independents, Obama is shedding Democrats these days. According to the FoxNews poll, his job approval among them has dropped from 84 percent at the end of June to 76 percent in mid-July. A combination of the Afghan War, the oil spill, Guantanamo and his failure to act on immigration reform have all eroded his credibility with his liberal constituents. Now comes evidence that the war in Afghanistan cannot be won -- certainly not with the effort...
Hide-and-Seek Hypocrites on the Hill 7.27.10
by Michelle Malkin
28 Jul 2010 at 11:00am
You know when a politician starts a sentence with "frankly," he's about to lie to your face. The same principle applies to campaign finance legislation dubbed the "DISCLOSE Act." The voter's instinctive reaction should be: What are they trying to hide now? Drafted out of public view with left-wing lobbyists and rammed through Congress after bypassing committee hearings, this bum bill would have been better named the CLOSEDDOOR Act. At a Rose Garden press conference on Monday, President Obama decried the influence of "shadow groups" on elections and urged the Senate to pass the "reform" sponsored by N.Y. Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer. But t...
CIA Interrogations Have Their Day in Court 7/28/10
by Marc A. Thiessen & David B. Rivkin Jr.
28 Jul 2010 at 11:00am
In February, we wrote in the Wall Street Journal about a classified brief filed in federal court in which the Obama Justice Department argued for the importance and efficacy of the CIA interrogation program. Now a federal judge has reviewed the evidence and agreed. On Dec. 18, 2009, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, made the secret filing in response to a motion by Ahmed Ghailani, an al-Qaeda terrorist facing charges for his role in the U.S.-embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. Ghailani argued that those charges should be dropped because lengthy CIA interrogations denied him his constitutio...
The SEIU?s Friendly Inquisitor: NLRB member Craig Becker is voting on cases ...
by Kevin Williamson
28 Jul 2010 at 11:00am
Carole Jean Badertscher was a California nurse who just wanted to go to work and take care of her patients ? but the SEIU was determined not to let that happen. The union?s contract with Badertscher?s employer, the Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center, had expired, and the union had called a strike in response. Badertscher and other nurses, unwilling to abandon their patients for the sake of a stronger SEIU hand in contract negotiations, resigned from the union and went to work. In turn, she was threatened by the union bosses, who promised to have her prosecuted under California?s antique professional-strikebreaker statute, which was long...
Turkey in Cyprus vs. Israel in Gaza: Is Israel in Gaza really worse than Tur...
by Daniel Pipes
28 Jul 2010 at 11:00am
In light of Ankara?s recent criticism of what it calls Israel?s ?open-air jail? in Gaza, this week, which marks the 36th anniversary of Turkey?s invasion of Cyprus, has special relevance. Turkish policy toward Israel, historically warm and only a decade ago approaching full alliance, has cooled since Islamists took power in Ankara in 2002. Their hostility became explicit in January 2009, during the Israel?Hamas War. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan grandly condemned Israeli policies as ?perpetrating inhuman actions which would bring it to self-destruction? and even invoked God (?Allah will . . . punish those who transgress the rights o...
A Rhee of Hope? 7.27.10
by David Harsanyi
27 Jul 2010 at 10:36pm
Though I've seen evidence to the contrary, experts assure me that children are the nation's most precious natural resource. Logic, then, says that teaching is the most important profession in the country. And by extension, firing teachers who consistently fail to do their job should not be very controversial. Still, political parties come and go; teachers don't. All the while, urban school districts remain on a stable trajectory, headed from horrendous to Mississippi. Who knows? Perhaps there's hope. The country's top minds on education have cooked up a surefire solution to tackle this emergency: They're having a contest! Race to the Top i...
Obama's US Assassination Program? Part 1 7.26.10
by Chuck Norris
26 Jul 2010 at 10:19pm
Sound too conspiratorial to be true? Like the cover-up ops of spy novels? Well, it's reality. And it is possibly the most bizarre, inhumane and abusive way that the White House is expanding its power over the American people. It's not an extremist belief or theory of the far right. It's a fact that has been confirmed by The New York Times, The Washington Post and MSNBC and even documented by the far-left online magazine Salon.com. From OutloudOpinion - For Podcasts of IBDeditorials, The New Republic, and Over 30 Syndicated Columnists, go to www.outloudopinion.com
Tasing Arizona 7.26.10
by Debra J. Saunders
26 Jul 2010 at 10:11pm
The Obama administration had gone to federal court to kill Arizona's new illegal-immigration law, scheduled to go into effect on Thursday. The Department of Justice argues that enforcement of the Arizona law "is pre-empted by federal law and therefore violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution." Does this mean that if Team Obama prevails over Arizona, San Francisco and other sanctuary cities should prepare to go to court against the feds? From OutloudOpinion - For Podcasts of IBDeditorials, The New Republic, and Over 30 Syndicated Columnists, go to www.outloudopinion.com
How Smart Are We? 7.26.10
by Thomas Sowell
26 Jul 2010 at 9:54pm
Many of the wonderful-sounding ideas that have been tried as government policies have failed disastrously. Because so few people bother to study history, often the same ideas and policies have been tried again, either in another country or in the same country at a later time-- and with the same disastrous results. One of the ideas that has proved to be almost impervious to evidence is the idea that wise and far-sighted people need to take control and plan economic and social policies so that there will be a rational and just order, rather than chaos resulting from things being allowed to take their own course. It sounds so logical a...
On Bullying: It Takes One To Know One 7.26.10
by David Limbaugh
26 Jul 2010 at 9:19pm
President Obama was apparently moved enough by a letter from a Philadelphia fifth-grader about bullying that he wrote back and encouraged his correspondent to continue her quest to end bullying. Oh, how rich the irony! Barack Obama is nothing if not a bully. There, I said it, and I believe it's true, no matter how politically incorrect and inconsistent with the mainstream media's narrative it is. Before getting to some examples, let me direct your attention to the White House's comments on the exchange and the reaction of Obama's fifth-grade correspondent, Zina Stokes. From OutloudOpinion - For Podcasts of IBDeditorials, The...