Breakfast Scramble

Dumbo at rock bottom, from Toby Harden, Telegraph(UK):

When any political leader feels they have to declare that they are “fully engaged” in an issue, it is clear that they are in trouble. Talking about it undermines the

Is  there a Pulitzer for Iowahawk? MoDo, Maureen Dowd has a Pulitzer and MoDo’s specialty is writing columns on what what she thinks other people are thinking.  Iowahawk  has done MoDo one better, he writes about the Sarah Palin which

How to handle the mosque, from Stink Progress:

The American Society for Muslim Advancement and the Cordoba Initiative recently presented plans to build a community center two blocks away from Ground Zero in New York City that would

Clan of the Momma Grizzly, Mark McKinnon. Daily Beast:

The Alaska sensation is recruiting and endorsing GOP women nationwide—spooking the Democrats.

TPM  in favor of rape”? Brain dead website displays clueless lede:

Family Research Council: End Of DADT

If he promised us anything, Obama promised us competence. Instead, we’ve gotten the Keystone Cops.

Kristen Powers, New York Post.

Hell no to hatred.  Towel heads want to build mosque over  Ground Zero, New York Post:

Angry relatives of 9/11 victims last night clashed with supporters of a planned mosque near Ground Zero at a raucous community-board hearing

From Clifton B., Another Black Conservative, video:

Note Dr. Krauthammer’s generous offer of free medical service.  Now that is bending down the cost curve.

The Lady or the Tiger II, or oh what a tangled web you weave when first you practice to deceive.   Trying get out from under the Joe Sestak mess, David Axelrod just keeps digging.    Now Axelrod is accusing Sestak

“The more he talked, the more he got upset,” Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) said. “He needs to take a valium before he comes in and talks to Republicans and just calm down, and don’t take anything so seriously. If you

Unanimous finding of the Senate Intelligence Committee:

The Senate Intelligence Committee found 14 intelligence failures leading up to the attempted Christmas Day attack aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 over Detroit, according to an unclassified report released today.

Link.

Michael Sheridan. New York Daily News, reports on a political boxing match between Bobby Gibbs and Sarah Palin.   The big punches, at least as reported, for Gibbs:

“My suggestion to Sarah Palin would be to get slightly more informed

Obama’s one trick pony, Carol E. Lee, Politico:

President Barack Obama is trying to ride the wave of anti-incumbency by taking on an unpopular politician steeped in the partisan ways of Washington.

It doesn’t matter that George W. Bush

“Right now, the Obama administration’s national security apparatus is broken, dysfunctional and in disarray,” Hoekstra said.  “Dennis Blair was the one person you could count on for rationality among Holder, Napolitano and Brennan—and he’s the one the president let go.”

More of Mrs. Clinton’s smart diplomacy, via Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit:

Weakening US-Japan Relationships May Impair Crucial Social Networks

Multilateral relations with emerging economies, the Japanese government’s bumbling over Futenma air base, and corporate breakups are reducing opportunities

I was going make this part of the Scramble, but just got too long.    Eric rambled on border security, or lack thereof.   I offer three takes on illegal immigration, first the cool, video:

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The warm, video:

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