John McCain Does Not Understand National Security

“We must not only have a free flow of goods and services, but also start working for a free flow of people.”

So speaks, Dr. Juan Hernandez, John McCain’s Hispanic outreach director.   A free flow of people is what gave

• Got a few inches of snow up here yesterday, mostly lake effect stuff in the afternoon. Just enough to drive the birds crazy.they went through three lbs of seed in about a half hour. Yes, Virginia, that means a lot

Local Congressman James Walsh(NY – 25) is retiring, Rachal Barnhart, 13WHAM:,

(Rochester, N.Y.) – Congressman James Walsh of Onondaga is retiring. The Republican has held the 25^th district seat for two decades

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So who will the

Scott over at Powerline passes along the eulogy given by the Commander of my old unit 3/2 U.S. Cavalry (I was a Scout/Bradley driver in K Troop 3/2 ACR from 1988-1990 in Germany; back then we were an armored cavalry

Word on the street is that the slugs at the Westboro Baptist Church from Topeka are planning to picket the Heath Ledger funeral.

Look, you morons, I understand full well what your positions on Homosexuality are.  I also know that

Byran, Hot Air, points out that Mike Huckabee had an interesting point about rebuilding I-95 rather than sending out individual rebate checks:

Mike Huckabee makes some sense on the economic stimulus. He says, essentially, if we’re going to borrow

I note with interest that Jonathan Martin has put up a post at Politico making note of the fact that the global warming business has all but disappeared from John McCain’s speechmaking. Apparently McCain has finally figured out it’s not

In this case, the shock is not what is being said about B.J. Clinton, but rather who is saying it:

I write this more out of sadness than anger. Bill Clinton’s ill-tempered and ill-founded attacks on Barack Obama are doing

• Yikes! How long did THIS take to set up? Clearly some engineering genius has far too much time on their hands. Rube had nothing on these folks.
• The WSJ is saying that Obama is just now figuring out that the

Michelle Malkin uses the Senate floor debate over FISA to sum up the difference between democrats and republicans:

The frenzy over FISA is a stark reminder of basic party differences on the War on Terror. The Republicans put security first.

I see that Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D), is presently asking the Congress for $250 BILLION to rebuild New Orleans.

Let’s break out the spreadsheet.

NOLA has 484,674 residents. Broken down by person, that means each one gets paid $516,528.00

I have previously commented that Mrs. Clinton campaigns ugly.  The true nature of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign is getting harder to simply sweep under the carpet.  Alec MacGillis and Anne E. Kornblut, Washington Post, only officially hide their disgust:

And so why would Soros be trying to move us toward Democrats here in the US?

Jawa has the answer:

During an interview with the BBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, billionaire leftist George Soros weighed in

The Clintons play dirty when they feel threatened. But we knew that, didn’t we?
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The problem is not Hillary Clinton per se or the sharp exchanges and personal accusations that squeamish political reporters deplore. That’s what politics is always

I’d go longer, but I don’t know what to make of it.   On Memeorandum, you have stories of the open race war between the Clintons and Barack Obama.  Meanwhile, a few leftsided bloggers are upset because a republican operative