Europe Learned the Lesson We Forgot

Any interesting if eminently predictable piece from Marc Stein this morning. Here’s a taste:

Still, what do I know? Evidently, it’s stimulated the sign-making industry, putting America back to work by putting up “PUTTING AMERICA BACK TO WORK” signs

Dahlia Lithwick at Slate seems among the first to pile onto Ricci, doing some local newspaper investigation.

According to local newspapers, Ricci filed his first lawsuit against the city of New Haven in 1995, at the ripe old age

Great piece at NRO this morning, from David Kahane:

If you had any sense, you would start using our tactics against us. After all, you have a few lawyers on your side. Sue us. File frivolous ethics complaints against all

A great piece from Mary Grabar at Pajamas Media today. Here’s a bit of it:

But those streets, once havens for displaced persons, soon were destroyed by the utopian plans of collectivists and their agitators who urged the

As goes Energy, so goes the country.

“The worse, the better,” Vladimir Lenin is said to have observed. What Lenin meant was that the worse social conditions became in Russia, the more likely he and the Bolsheviks could foment a

As I predicted here this afternoon, it came down to less than 10 votes… 219 to 212,  Eight Republicans backed the bill, and 44 Democrats voted against it.

Every one of the people who voted for this bill should be

From the Palm Treo:

I’m sitting in the back yard, watching over some steaks and a little corn on the cob.

I have a question that I dare say will make some of you rather uncomfortable.

To set this up,

Clarice Feldman at Pajamas Media nails it cleanly:

As the president released the memos, C.I.A. Director Leon Panetta sent a letter to his agents:

In releasing these memos, the men and women of the CIA have assurances from both myself,

Dave Schuler at OTB:

Germany is concerned about the Taliban fighters nearing Pakistan’s Islamabad capital:

BERLIN, April 24 (Reuters) – Germany expressed concern on Friday at the advance of Taliban fighters towards Pakistan’s capital and urged the government in Islamabad

American Heroes

That’s what we ought to call the men and women who interrogated the worst of the worst. For those most committed to the ridiculous crusade for terrorist rights, “enhanced interrogation” is not only immoral and illegal, it’s ineffective.

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

James Joyner at OTB:

The big story at memeorandum is a report by MinnPost‘s Eric Black, passed on by Raw Story‘s Muriel Kane, that Dick Cheney ran a super secret assassination ring out of his office.

I’ve been seeing, of late, some back- chatter on my Pajamas Media piece of the 21st. Both confirmation, and complaint.  Let’s deal with the confirmation first, since it is the more obvio. I said on the 21st:

As President Obama

I’ve been pondering a post over at Riehl World View for a few days, now. Here’s part of it.

First, for the Moonbats who might scream because I believe Barack Obama is “un-American,” well, sorry, but he is.

When I

Billy Beck:

“Great” Britain

It killed Baby P. The actual murder was bought and paid for out of state benevolence.

That kid was only seventeen months old, and the people ostensibly charged with responsibility for looking out for him