President Obama Votes Present on Torture Prosecutions

If there is anything the one hates, it is having make an actual desision.   Rather t han make a decison the allegationsof tortue duing the Bush administratin, the one has punted the decisino to Spain,   Scott Horton, Daily Beast:

Memo to The One: Pretty words alone will not do.  Video:

Hat tip: Gateway Pundit

Meanwhile away from Obamaland, back in the real world,

MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) – Undeterred by U.S. and French hostage rescues that killed five

Boortz makes a point I’ve made before about this supposed ‘green stimulus’. It’s a contradiction in terms:

But here are the ugly facts … every “green job” that was funded by the Spanish government caused the loss of 2.2 regular

Obama administration lunatic wants to create a nuclear winter to off-set imagined global warming, David Gardner, Mail(UK)

President Barack Obama is considering a radical plan to tackle global warming by firing pollution particles into the stratosphere to deflect some

Navy SEALs 4 – Somali pirates 0;  Fox News:

American sea Captain Richard Phillips was safely rescued Sunday from four Somali pirates, who had been holding him for days in a lifeboat off the coast of Africa, a U.S.

Telegraph(UK):

Vatican sources told Il Giornale that their support for abortion disqualified Ms Kennedy and other Roman Catholics President Barack Obama had been seeking to appoint.

Mr Obama was reportedly seeking to reward John F Kennedy’s daughter, who publicly

It is far too easy to criticize the president for failing to do or say the right thing in regard to these fragile situations. Missteps could prove fatal. But to do and say nothing about Americans being held captive in

Another morning, another paper filled with all talk and no action on the part of the Obama White House.

James makes mention of all of this, under a similar heading, and tries to go halfway with it.

As the nation sinks tnto the woes of the Obama recesssion, the one continues to live the good life, Mail(UK):

When you’re the president of the United States, only the best pizza will do – even if that means

The Frogs act, Shashank Bengali and Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers:

[T]he French government said that its navy on Friday freed a yacht that was captured over the weekend, but that one hostage had died in a gun battle

Evidently Barack Obama’s teleprompter is not programmable.

WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) – […]Obama was asked to comment on the situation several times by reporters at a White House event on refinancing for homeowners. Obama, however, stuck closely to

My new Pajamas Media  article is up over there.  Here’s a taste:

But imagine what would have happened  if one or more of the bankers in that meeting with Mr. Obama had had the courage to stand up and remind

Obama intoned a few days ago, mere hours after the Gargoyle in North Korea launched his rocket in direct violation of at least one UN order:

“Rules must be binding. Violations must be punished. Words must mean something. The world

B.J. Clinton denied the plan meaning of the word sex.   Now the Obama  admminstration has denied the plain meaning of the word bow, Ben Smith, Politico:

The White House is denying that the president bowed to King Abdullah of

American seized at sea, NBC:

NAIROBI, Kenya – Somali pirates on Wednesday hijacked a cargo ship with 21 American crew members aboard, a diplomat and U.S. Navy officials said.The Kenya-based diplomat identified the vessel as the 17,000-ton Maersk Alabama.