Good News, Obama Rejects Repartions, Kind Of, Sort of

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

In a firefight, superior firepower prevails, C.J. Chivers, New York Times;

An American platoon surprised an armed Taliban column on a forested ridgeline at night, and killed at least 13 insurgents, and perhaps many more, with rifles, machine guns,

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This is the Friday Fish Fry Edition.

• (Chuckle) Insty notes Micheal Graham:
  

  MICHAEL GRAHAM: Janet Napolitano

You just knew someone would do this eventually.

Washington Times:

Liberal actress and political activist Janeane Garofalo, in all seriousness, said activists who attended tea parties are racists with dysfunctional brains in a recent prime-time television appearance.

“Let’s be very