Classic George Will

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/05/24/end_run_on_free_speech_96637.html

Actual Quote from our esteemed Majority Leader.

I just heard Senator Harry Reid say this, verbatim:

Reid: "We will not release terrorists in the United States."

Reporter: "What about putting them in prisons in the United States?"

Reid: "You cannot put them in prison without releasing them."

Reporter: "Can you explain?"

Reid: "I cannot be any more clear."

This neatly seems up my views on several issues

From Mark Steyn:

"It's the Miss USA standard of political integrity: Carrie Prejean and Barack Obama have the same publicly stated views on gay marriage. But the politically correct enforcers know that Barack doesn't mean it, so that's okay, whereas Carrie does, so that's a hate crime. In the torture debate, Pelosi is Obama and Dick Cheney is Carrie Prejean. Dick means it, because to him this is an issue of national security. Nancy doesn't, because to her it's about the shifting breezes of political viability."

Think the Germans regret the holocaust?

Nope. They're undermining any effort at stopping Iran from getting the bomb.
From the Jpost:

Iran deals such as that of Bayerngas [the biggest municipal gas procurement platform in Germany] trigger no critical response among German politicians or the public, and organization's like NUMOV shamelessly advertise in public for even better German- Iranian economic ties.

Blatant Violation of Godwin's Law

By a sitting congressman, no less.

Why, Thank Me

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Barack-Obama-Thanks-Himself-In-Teleprompt-Blunder-During-Address-With-Irish-PM-On-St-Patricks-Day/Article/200903315243932?lpos=World_News_First_World_News_Article_Teaser_Region_1&lid=ARTICLE_15243932_Barack_Obama_Thanks_Himself_In_Teleprompt_Blunder_During_Address_With_Irish_PM_On_St_Patricks_Day

List of Nine Dangerously Deluded people:

Former Republican senators Chuck Hagel and Nancy Kassebaum Baker,
former House International Relations Committee chairman Lee Hamilton, former World Bank president James Wolfensohn, former United Nations ambassador Thomas Pickering, former US trade representative Carla Hills and former special counsel to President John F. Kennedy Theodore Sorensen.

Who in true Jimmy Carter-esqe fasion, think they can just convince avowed Islamic Fundamentalists, to not be Fundamental.

Washington Post ripping Obama right and left

The days of Ben Bradlee are over, I suppose.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/11/AR2009031103384.html

and

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/12/AR2009031203259.html

Anyone heard of Smoot-Hawley? Anyone?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/4389597/US-EU-trade-war-looms-as-Barack-Obama-bill-urges-Buy-American.html
and
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/01/022685.php

The BBC - Too Pro-Israel?

This must qualify as a pig-flying, pinch-myself, moment. The BBC is being accused all over Britiain for being biased in favor of Israel. And the critics are right.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/24/bbc-gaza-palestine-aid-appeal

Maybe the BBC is not really anti-Israel, just anti-common sense?

That's what happens when you release POWs before the war is over...

Has anyone seen "Saving Private Ryan"?

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hZfIcWnHqBz4kQR90lC_pXaHeW4Q

How to win in Gaza

Some have questioned the usefulness of the air campaign against the Hamas regime in Gaza. After all, they argue, didn't the air campaign against Hezbollah in the North accomplish little?

Good point! Here's what Lebanon II taught us. If you're going to air raid, you need to scorch the Earth. No more highly surgical, we love civilians, tactical pinpoint strikes. They need to break the Gazans until they no longer support Hamas. Break out the incindieries. Don't target civilians, but destroy all infrastructure.

Here's the model: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo_in_World_War_II

Or,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II

Tokyo has not been heard from since.

Brezinski is such a moron it makes me scream

http://video.aol.com/partner/hulu/msnbc-decision-08-zbigniew-brzezinski-on-gaza-conflict/_ptG4liNaTuEHP4xE96_YPimcGmq8FfK

America is responsible for Gaza. Thanks, Zbigniew.

Today's sign of the apocalypse

If you invested $1 million in three-month bills at today’s negative discount rate of 0.01 percent, for a price of 100.002556, at maturity you would receive the par value for a loss of $25.56.

Obama and Public Schools

Presdident-Elect Barack Obama has been almost universally lauded for making quality, competent, appointment picks. However, the real test of his character, and his ability to bring effective 'change' to America, will not be his appointments, but his political courage to fight the entrenched special interests.
In 'Audacity of Hope,' Obama states that the Teachers Unions must be fought to save our public school systems. This is quite a conservative position. Will he do it?

Jonah Goldberg gives us indicators.

"if the Navy rescued one ship then it would have to start doing it for all"

Err, sounds like a a good idea to me. Definitely beats doing nothing.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/LegalCenter/story?id=6292014&page=1

Let the Corruption Begin

Terrorists You Can Believe In.

In 1999, Bill Clinton shamelessly pardoned 16 unrepentent terrorists. (View the wikipedia entry here.) The Congress and Senate overwhelmingly voted to condemn this action.

One of the few defenders was P-E Obama's reported pick for Attorney General of the United States.

Watch Eric Holder be grilled by Senator Orrin Hatch.

Change UN Can Believe IN

Some here in the States think that electing Barack Obama as President will make the international community like us. The question, though, is why we feel the need to be liked by losers.

Case in point: UN Thugs at it as usual.

More on Bailouts

President-Elect Obama has joined with congressional Democrats in supporting a government-sponsored bailout of the Big 3 automakers. A case could theoretically be made, that the short-term effect of the three of them going under, would be so devastating as to justify such action.
However, all this only makes sense if the government CAN prop up the Big 3. What if the Big 3 are in such bad shape, that the government can only postpone the inevitable, and only at great cost?
The numbers speak for themselves.

UPDATE: Another reason to not bail these folks out.

Bailout to Nowhere

David Brooks writes a great column for the first time in a while