Harman Wiretap Scandal… Again

Surber notes:

CQ Politics: Democratic Congresswoman Jane Harman told an Israeli agent that she would lobby for a reduced sentence for a spy for help in getting a committee chairmanship.

And guess what committee chairmanship she wanted…

Intelligence.

The CQ

I find it ironic that while Barack Obama is intent sucking up to wannabe dictator for life, Hugo Chavez, but so intent on abusing average Americans.   Further, it is striking about the depth and diversity of the Tea Partiers, Andrew

My mama told me never to call a lady a bitch.  I don’t.

Attributed to Janeane Garofalo by Village Voice, via Brian Maloney, Radio Equalizer:

“When Rush Limbaugh visited the set, and when Lynne Cheney visited the set, I

If Barack Obaam is supposed to be my president, then he has an obligation as president to defend my country.   Yet the one seems to bear no responsiblity for anything which happened prior to Noon Twenty January this year.   Narcissus

• @jamesrivers nice trip, that. used to have people in Alpena. made the run ev 3 mo or so… before the 400s went in #
• @jamesrivers about 14hr drive… all two lane.  #
• @jimtreacher Amazin, ainlt it how

Cable News Network (CNN) hired a pathetic excuse for a reporter, one Susan Roesgen, and is now trying to cover up this embrassing fact.  Pattericso:

CNN the Latest Corporate Thug to Use Copyright As a Weapon to Eliminate Embarrassing

Thomas Ricks believes that we should shutter West Point and the other service academies because they’re expensive and, as far as he can tell, they produce no better officers than ROTC.  Plus, their instructors don’t have PhDs, making them essentially

The NY Post:

The Rev. Al Sharpton and his National Action Network have been slapped with a record $285,000 fine for violating a slew of federal election rules during his 2004 bid for president, the Post has learned.

In a

Al Gore: Call your office, you twit.

Ice is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap.

The report, originating in Australia, suggests that there is a

What is saw on a bumper sticker today:  “End war through world law.”

What I read on the Internet today:

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Dutch commandos freed 20 Yemeni hostages on Saturday and briefly detained seven pirates who had

James Joyner this morning :

In what has to be the oddest Peggy Noonan column ever, she extrapolates from a single story of a Michigan family that decided to give up some modern luxuries to engage in subsistence farming

An interesting snippet from William Kristol, Weekly Standard:

What was more interesting was the accompanying statement by the Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, trying to justify Obama’s decision–or at least put it “into perspective.” The perspective, the context,

Barack Obama may think of himself as president of the world.   However Israeli Prime Misister Benajim Benjamin Netanyahu is insisting on acting in Irrael’s best interest, and not Obama’s, McClatchy Newspapers:

ERUSALEM – In a direct challenge to President

The term Madam Secretary has certain ring to it,  BBC:

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is offering the chance to spend a day with her husband Bill in exchange for help paying off her campaign debt.

The offer

It time for the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security,  Janet Napolitano,  to resign.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Civil liberties officials at the Homeland Security Department did not agree with some of the language in a controversial report