Breakfast Scramble

Adam Clayton Powell IV to Challenge Charlie Rangel, Useless Toady:

Adam Clayton Powell IV made it official today, announcing he will run against Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y. — the man who defeated his father in the Democratic primary

Obama ponders destruction of the State of Israel, David Ignatius, RCP:

WASHINGTON — President Obama is “seriously considering” proposing an American peace plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to two top administration officials.

“Everyone knows the basic

I note Mark Steyn, this morning:

Hillary Clinton, America’s secretary of state, was in Canada last week. She criticized Ottawa for not inviting aboriginal groups to a meeting on the Arctic, and for not including the facilitation of abortion in

Passed along by a reader, in my feedback this morning:

For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress.  Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only

Jake Tapper says this morning that the White House has given a go ahead to offshore drilling.

On Wednesday morning at Joint Base Andrews Naval Air Facility in Washington, DC, President Obama will announce that his administration will allow the

So who is the Tea Bagger? I won tries to muddle the message, from USA Today:

President Obama said many Tea Party followers have “mainstream legitimate concerns,” but their movement is built around a “core group” of opponents who

Obama Care breeds the World’s fastest chickens.William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection:

Obamacare’s Chickens Coming Home To Roost Already

Numerous companies already have announced enormous financial write-downs related to Obamacare’s cutback of subsidies for prescription drug benefit programs for

I have a fresh post up over at DodgeBlogium… Andrew Ian Dodge’s place… which sugegsts we’re not going to see a repeal of ObamaCare anytime soon, no matter what kind of screaming you hear from the GOP.

Joyner at OTB:

As many as ten Congressmen have allegedly received death threats over their votes on health care reform.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is warning that some of his Democratic colleagues are being threatened with violence when

After being gone for a month, from around here, I find that I am terribly behind in my reading, and even further behind in my commentary on that reading.

Almost instantaneously on dropping the clutch on this backlog comes

Fred Phelps and Phree Speech, ok Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church are loud vulgar, but political, bunch.   But if the First Amendment does not protect loud and vulgar political speech, what good is it.   From, Chris Weigant,

The deranged gunman in Thursday’s Pentagon shooting was a Truther, from NBC News:

The shooter, identified as John Patrick Bedell, 36, of Hollister, Calif., died hours after being admitted to a hospital in critical condition.

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In an Internet

Will the Senator accept the terms and limitations of Obamacare, WNYC:

NEW YORK, NY February 19, 2010 —New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg, 86, has been diagnosed with stomach cancer.

Lautenberg will undergo six to eight chemotherapy treatments, in

The female version of Freddy Kruger is back, from Johnathan Turley{

Crystal Gale Mangum, 33, has been charged with attempted murder and arson. Mangum was the stripper who falsely accused members of the Duke lacrosse team.

Mangum allegedly assaulted

I notice today a rather remarkable report on the wires this morning from the NY Times:

Three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville were shot to death, and three other people were seriously wounded at a biology