Breakfast Scramble: The O-conomy

Gurkha – 30, Taliban – 0, from Daily Mail (UK):

Corporal Dipprasad Pun defeated more than 30 Taliban fighters single-handedly

Used the tripod of his machine gun to beat away a militant after running out of ammunition

A Gurkha

Hope has died, from Ben White, Politico:

President Barack Obama is heading into his reelection campaign with a flagging economy that appears incapable of producing the sustained job growth needed to push unemployment below crisis levels.

And there appears

Can Cain? Herman Cain did what was expected and officially threw is hat into the ring, from Daily Caller:

Cain said one of the biggest reasons he’s running for president is because, “we have become a nation of crises.”

Playing the Allinsky Card on Obama, one of the mantras of Allinskyism to make your opponent live up to his own standards, In that regard Glenn Greenwald lays a beauty down on Dumbo, b/k/a Barack Obama, from Salon:

Allah Pundit has found another celebutard who has mistaken, Dumbo, b/k/a Barack Obama for intelligent, from Hot Air:

A late evening palate cleanser via CNS — and not the first time that they’ve spun video gold from waylaying poor

Obami give birth to the deathers, Andrew Malcolm professes to be confused why so much of the public refuses to accept the Obama administration’s claim of the death of Usama bin Laden at face value, from the Los Angeles

How dumb is Dumbo I:

Washington (CNN) – President Barack Obama used an immigration speech Tuesday to take a jab at News Corporation CEO, Rupert Murdoch, who owns Fox News Channel.

Obama quoted the CEO, an Australian native,

Gutsy Call? United States has permission to take Usame bin Laden in Pakistan, from Declan Walsh, Guardian (UK):

Osama bin Laden mission agreed in secret 10 years ago by US and PakistanUS forces were given permission to conduct unilateral raid

MoDo gets it.  How bloody obvious is the War on Terror when even Maureen Dowd gets it, from New York Times:

I don’t want closure. There is no closure after tragedy.

I want memory, and justice, and revenge.

Why Dumbo will be a one term President, from Jedediah Bila, Daily Caller:

(3) As reported by The Hill this week, “The high gas prices limited gross domestic product growth in the first quarter, and have taken a

POTUS owes CIA an apology, from Marc A. Thiessen, Washington Post:

Now, it turns out that the very CIA interrogators whose lives Obama turned upside down played a critical role in what the president rightly calls “the most

Question Mr. President, from Ann Althouse:

So… was bin Laden shot because he resisted — the official story — or because a live, captured bin Laden would have torn the Obama administration apart?

More over, did the White

Usama bin Laden passes, the speech the President should have given, in total:

“Nothing personal, just business.   Bravo Zulu gentlemen.”

Bin Laden wasn’t the problem.  His passing will not the solution.

Bin Laden round-up, Aaron Worthing, Patterico’s Pontifications

Nice Deb on Harry Alford:

Harry Alford is the president and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, and he’s a lot of fun to listen to. (You may remember his acrimonious confrontation with Barbara Boxer, at a

Demographics and demagogues,  maybe Outside the Beltway is what a site run by college professors would be expected to be,  that one which favors political correctness over logic.  An Oklahoma legislator Sally Kern as reported by  Tulsa World: